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Zaarour RF, Ribeiro M, Azzarone B, Kapoor S, Chouaib S. Tumor microenvironment-induced tumor cell plasticity: relationship with hypoxic stress and impact on tumor resistance. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1222575. [PMID: 37886168 PMCID: PMC10598765 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1222575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
Abstract
The role of tumor interaction with stromal components during carcinogenesis is crucial for the design of efficient cancer treatment approaches. It is widely admitted that tumor hypoxic stress is associated with tumor aggressiveness and thus impacts susceptibility and resistance to different types of treatments. Notable biological processes that hypoxia functions in include its regulation of tumor heterogeneity and plasticity. While hypoxia has been reported as a major player in tumor survival and dissemination regulation, the significance of hypoxia inducible factors in cancer stem cell development remains poorly understood. Several reports indicate that the emergence of cancer stem cells in addition to their phenotype and function within a hypoxic tumor microenvironment impacts cancer progression. In this respect, evidence showed that cancer stem cells are key elements of intratumoral heterogeneity and more importantly are responsible for tumor relapse and escape to treatments. This paper briefly reviews our current knowledge of the interaction between tumor hypoxic stress and its role in stemness acquisition and maintenance. Our review extensively covers the influence of hypoxia on the formation and maintenance of cancer stem cells and discusses the potential of targeting hypoxia-induced alterations in the expression and function of the so far known stem cell markers in cancer therapy approaches. We believe that a better and integrated understanding of the effect of hypoxia on stemness during carcinogenesis might lead to new strategies for exploiting hypoxia-associated pathways and their targeting in the clinical setting in order to overcome resistance mechanisms. More importantly, at the present time, efforts are oriented towards the design of innovative therapeutical approaches that specifically target cancer stem cells.
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- RF. Zaarour
- Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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- Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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- Tumor Immunology Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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- Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
- INSERM UMR 1186, Integrative Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Gustave Roussy, Faculty of Medicine, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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Delyon J, Chevret S, Jouary T, Dalac S, Dalle S, Guillot B, Arnault JP, Avril MF, Bedane C, Bens G, Pham-Ledard A, Mansard S, Grange F, Machet L, Meyer N, Legoupil D, Saiag P, Idir Z, Renault V, Deleuze JF, Hindie E, Battistella M, Dumaz N, Mourah S, Lebbe C. STAT3 Mediates Nilotinib Response in KIT-Altered Melanoma: A Phase II Multicenter Trial of the French Skin Cancer Network. J Invest Dermatol 2017; 138:58-67. [PMID: 28843487 DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2017.07.839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2017] [Revised: 06/18/2017] [Accepted: 07/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Mutated oncogenic KIT is a therapeutic target in melanoma. We conducted a multicenter phase II trial on the KIT inhibitor nilotinib in patients with unresectable melanoma harboring KIT alteration. The primary endpoint was the response rate (complete response or partial response following Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors criteria) at 6 months. Pharmacodynamic studies using KIT sequencing, qPCR array, and immunostaining of downstream KIT effectors were performed during treatment. Twenty-five patients were included and received 400 mg oral nilotinib twice daily. At 6 months, nilotinib induced tumor response in four patients. The best overall response rate was 20% and the disease control rate was 56%, limited to patients harboring exon 11 or 13 mutations. Four patients exhibited durable response, including three persisting (3.6 and 2.8 years for two patients with stage IIIC and 2.5 years for one with IVM1b melanoma). A reduction in signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 3 phosphorylation and its effectors (BCL-2, MCL-1) in tumors during follow-up was significantly associated with clinical response. In the KIT-mutated melanoma cell line M230, nilotinib reduced STAT3 signaling and STAT inhibitors were as efficient as KIT inhibitors in reducing cell proliferation. Our study evidences a significant association between STAT3 inhibition and response to nilotinib, and provides a rationale for future research assessing STAT inhibitors in KIT-mutated melanoma.
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- Julie Delyon
- Service de Dermatologie, and CIC (Centre d'Investigations Cliniques), AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; INSERM, UMR-976, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
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- Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Service de Biostatistique et Information Médicale, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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- Unité Onco-dermatologie, Hôpital François Mitterrand, Pau, France
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- Service de Dermatologie, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Cancer Research Center of Lyon, INSERM U1052, CNRS UMR5286, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Institut de Cancérologie des Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Service de Dermatologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Unité d'oncologie thoracique et cutanée, Hopital Dupuytren, Limoges, France
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- Service de Dermatologie, Centre hospitalier régional d'Orléans, Orléans, France
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- Dermatology Department, CHU de Clermont Ferrand, Clermont Ferrand, France
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- Dermatology Department, Reims University Hospital, Reims, France
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- Department of Dermatology, Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire (CHRU) de Tours, Tours, France; Inserm U930, University Francois Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France
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- Dermatologie, Institut Universitaire du Cancer et CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France; Inserm UMR 1037, CRCT, Toulouse, France
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- Université de Versailles St-Quentin, EA 4340, Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Service de Dermatologie Générale et Oncologique, AP-HP, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- AP-HP, Département de la Recherche Clinique et du Développement, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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- Laboratory for Bioinformatics, CEPH-Fondation Jean Dausset, Paris, France
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- Centre National de Génotypage, CEA, Evry, France; CEPH-Fondation Jean Dausset, Paris, France
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- Service de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU de Bordeaux, LabEx TRAIL, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; INSERM, UMR_S1165, Paris, France; Pathology department, Hopital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR-976, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR-976, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Biologique, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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- Service de Dermatologie, and CIC (Centre d'Investigations Cliniques), AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; INSERM, UMR-976, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Gunarta IK, Li R, Nakazato R, Suzuki R, Boldbaatar J, Suzuki T, Yoshioka K. Critical role of glioma-associated oncogene homolog 1 in maintaining invasive and mesenchymal-like properties of melanoma cells. Cancer Sci 2017; 108:1602-1611. [PMID: 28635133 PMCID: PMC5543504 DOI: 10.1111/cas.13294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2017] [Revised: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 06/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Cutaneous melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. This aggressiveness appears to be due to the cancer cells' ability to reversibly switch between phenotypes with non-invasive and invasive potential, and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is known to play a central role in this process. The transcription factor glioma-associated oncogene homolog 1 (GLI1) is a component of the canonical and noncanonical sonic hedgehog pathways. Although GLI1 has been suggested to be involved in melanoma progression, its precise role and the mechanism underlying invasion remain unclear. Here we investigated whether and how GLI1 is involved in the invasive ability of melanoma cells. Gli1 knockdown (KD) melanoma cell lines, established by using Gli1-targeting lentiviral short hairpin RNA, exhibited a markedly reduced invasion ability, but their MITF expression and activity were the same as controls. Gli1 KD melanoma cells also led to less lung metastasis in mice compared with control melanoma cells. Furthermore, the Gli1 KD melanoma cells underwent a mesenchymal-to-epithelial-like transition, accompanied by downregulation of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-inducing transcription factors (EMT-TF) Snail1, Zeb1 and Twist1, but not Snail2 or Zeb2. Collectively, these results indicate that GLI1 is important for maintaining the invasive and mesenchymal-like properties of melanoma cells independent of MITF, most likely by modulating a subset of EMT-TF. Our findings provide new insight into how heterogeneity and plasticity are achieved and regulated in melanoma.
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- I Ketut Gunarta
- Division of Molecular Cell SignalingCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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- Division of Molecular Cell SignalingCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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- Division of Molecular Cell SignalingCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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- Division of Molecular Cell SignalingCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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- Division of Molecular Cell SignalingCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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- Division of Functional GenomicCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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- Division of Molecular Cell SignalingCancer Research InstituteKanazawa UniversityKanazawaJapan
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