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Mason M, Lapuente-Santana Ó, Halkola AS, Wang W, Mall R, Xiao X, Kaufman J, Fu J, Pfeil J, Banerjee J, Chung V, Chang H, Chasalow SD, Lin HY, Chai R, Yu T, Finotello F, Mirtti T, Mäyränpää MI, Bao J, Verschuren EW, Ahmed EI, Ceccarelli M, Miller LD, Monaco G, Hendrickx WRL, Sherif S, Yang L, Tang M, Gu SS, Zhang W, Zhang Y, Zeng Z, Das Sahu A, Liu Y, Yang W, Bedognetti D, Tang J, Eduati F, Laajala TD, Geese WJ, Guinney J, Szustakowski JD, Vincent BG, Carbone DP. A community challenge to predict clinical outcomes after immune checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer. J Transl Med 2024; 22:190. [PMID: 38383458 PMCID: PMC10880244 DOI: 10.1186/s12967-023-04705-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Predictive biomarkers of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) efficacy are currently lacking for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, we describe the results from the Anti-PD-1 Response Prediction DREAM Challenge, a crowdsourced initiative that enabled the assessment of predictive models by using data from two randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) of ICIs in first-line metastatic NSCLC. METHODS Participants developed and trained models using public resources. These were evaluated with data from the CheckMate 026 trial (NCT02041533), according to the model-to-data paradigm to maintain patient confidentiality. The generalizability of the models with the best predictive performance was assessed using data from the CheckMate 227 trial (NCT02477826). Both trials were phase III RCTs with a chemotherapy control arm, which supported the differentiation between predictive and prognostic models. Isolated model containers were evaluated using a bespoke strategy that considered the challenges of handling transcriptome data from clinical trials. RESULTS A total of 59 teams participated, with 417 models submitted. Multiple predictive models, as opposed to a prognostic model, were generated for predicting overall survival, progression-free survival, and progressive disease status with ICIs. Variables within the models submitted by participants included tumor mutational burden (TMB), programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression, and gene-expression-based signatures. The best-performing models showed improved predictive power over reference variables, including TMB or PD-L1. CONCLUSIONS This DREAM Challenge is the first successful attempt to use protected phase III clinical data for a crowdsourced effort towards generating predictive models for ICI clinical outcomes and could serve as a blueprint for similar efforts in other tumor types and disease states, setting a benchmark for future studies aiming to identify biomarkers predictive of ICI efficacy. TRIAL REGISTRATION CheckMate 026; NCT02041533, registered January 22, 2014. CheckMate 227; NCT02477826, registered June 23, 2015.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mike Mason
- Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Research Program in Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, P.O. Box 34110, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 38105, Memphis, TN, USA
- Biotechnology Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute, P.O. Box 9639, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
- National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Digital Science Center (DiSC), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program in Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- iCAN-Digital Precision Cancer Medicine Flagship, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Research Program in Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Human Immunology Department, Sidra Medicine, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), University of Naples "Federico II", 80125, Naples, Italy
- BIOGEM Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Via Camporeale, Ariano Irpino, Italy
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- BIOGEM Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Via Camporeale, Ariano Irpino, Italy
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- Human Immunology Department, Sidra Medicine, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
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- Human Immunology Department, Sidra Medicine, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Human Immunology Department, Sidra Medicine, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, P.O. Box 26999, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Faculty of Medicine, Research Program in Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program in Systems Oncology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- iCAN-Digital Precision Cancer Medicine Flagship, Helsinki, Finland
- FICAN West Cancer Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Department of Pharmacology, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computational Medicine Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
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Zhu H, Roelands J, Ahmed EI, Stouten I, Hoorntje R, van Vlierberghe RLP, Ijsselsteijn ME, Lei X, de Miranda NFCC, Tollenaar RAEM, Vahrmeijer AL, Bedognetti D, Hendrickx WRL, Kuppen PJK. Location matters: spatial dynamics of tumor-infiltrating T cell subsets is prognostic in colon cancer. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1293618. [PMID: 38375478 PMCID: PMC10875018 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1293618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
Abstract
Background Colon cancer is a heterogeneous disease and consists of various molecular subtypes. Despite advances in high-throughput expression profiling, limitations remain in predicting clinical outcome and assigning specific treatment to individual cases. Tumor-immune interactions play a critical role, with tumors that activate the immune system having better outcome for the patient. The localization of T cells within tumor epithelium, to enable direct contact, is essential for antitumor function, but bulk DNA/RNA sequencing data lacks spatial distribution information. In this study, we provide spatial T cell tumor distribution and connect these data with previously determined genomic data in the AC-ICAM colon cancer patient cohort. Methods Colon cancer patients (n=90) with transcriptome data available were selected. We used a custom multiplex immunofluorescence assay on colon tumor tissue sections for quantifying T cell subsets spatial distribution in the tumor microenvironment, in terms of cell number, location, mutual distance, and distance to tumor cells. Statistical analyses included the previously determined Immunologic Constant of Rejection (ICR) transcriptome correlation and patient survival, revealing potential prognostic value in T cell spatial distribution. Results T cell phenotypes were characterized and CD3+CD8-FoxP3- T cells were found to be the predominant tumor-infiltrating subtype while CD3+FoxP3+ T cells and CD3+CD8+ T cells showed similar densities. Spatial distribution analysis elucidated that proliferative T cells, characterized by Ki67 expression, and Granzyme B-expressing T cells were predominantly located within the tumor epithelium. We demonstrated an increase in immune cell density and a decrease in the distance of CD3+CD8+ T cells to the nearest tumor cell, in the immune active, ICR High, immune subtypes. Higher densities of stromal CD3+FoxP3+ T cells showed enhanced survival outcomes, and patients exhibited superior clinical benefits when greater spatial distances were observed between CD3+CD8-FoxP3- or CD3+CD8+ T cells and CD3+FoxP3+ T cells. Conclusion Our study's in-depth analysis of the spatial distribution and densities of major T cell subtypes within the tumor microenvironment has provided valuable information that paves the way for further research into the intricate relationships between immune cells and colon cancer development.
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- Hehuan Zhu
- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Immunology and Oncode Institute, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
- Kite, A Gilead Company, Santa Monica, CA, United States
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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Raynaud CM, Ahmed EI, Jabeen A, Sanchez A, Sherif S, Carneiro-Lobo TC, Awad A, Awartani D, Naik A, Thomas R, Decock J, Zoppoli G, Bedongnetti D, Hendrickx WRL. Modulation of SLFN11 induces changes in DNA Damage response in breast cancer. Cancer Cell Int 2023; 23:291. [PMID: 38001424 PMCID: PMC10668346 DOI: 10.1186/s12935-023-03144-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Lack of Schlafen family member 11 (SLFN11) expression has been recently identified as a dominant genomic determinant of response to DNA damaging agents in numerous cancer types. Thus, several strategies aimed at increasing SLFN11 are explored to restore chemosensitivity of refractory cancers. In this study, we examined various approaches to elevate SLFN11 expression in breast cancer cellular models and confirmed a corresponding increase in chemosensitivity with using the most successful efficient one. As oncogenic transcriptomic downregulation is often driven by methylation of the promotor region, we explore the demethylation effect of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (decitabine), on the SLFN11 gene. Since SLFN11 has been reported as an interferon inducible gene, and interferon is secreted during an active anti-tumor immune response, we investigated the in vitro effect of IFN-γ on SLFN11 expression in breast cancer cell lines. As a secondary approach to pick up cross talk between immune cells and SLFN11 expression we used indirect co-culture of breast cancer cells with activated PBMCs and evaluated if this can drive SLFN11 upregulation. Finally, as a definitive and specific way to modulate SLFN11 expression we implemented SLFN11 dCas9 (dead CRISPR associated protein 9) systems to specifically increase or decrease SLFN11 expression. RESULTS After confirming the previously reported correlation between methylation of SLFN11 promoter and its expression across multiple cell lines, we showed in-vitro that decitabine and IFN-γ could increase moderately the expression of SLFN11 in both BT-549 and T47D cell lines. The use of a CRISPR-dCas9 UNISAM and KRAB system could increase or decrease SLFN11 expression significantly (up to fivefold), stably and specifically in BT-549 and T47D cancer cell lines. We then used the modified cell lines to quantify the alteration in chemo sensitivity of those cells to treatment with DNA Damaging Agents (DDAs) such as Cisplatin and Epirubicin or DNA Damage Response (DDRs) drugs like Olaparib. RNAseq was used to elucidate the mechanisms of action affected by the alteration in SLFN11 expression. In cell lines with robust SLFN11 promoter methylation such as MDA-MB-231, no SLFN11 expression could be induced by any approach. CONCLUSION To our knowledge this is the first report of the stable non-lethal increase of SLFN11 expression in a cancer cell line. Our results show that induction of SLFN11 expression can enhance DDA and DDR sensitivity in breast cancer cells and dCas9 systems may represent a novel approach to increase SLFN11 and achieve higher sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents, improving outcome or decreasing required drug concentrations. SLFN11-targeting therapies might be explored pre-clinically to develop personalized approaches.
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Center, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Center, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Center, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Internal Medicine (DiMI), University of Genoa and Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
- Ospedale Policlinico San Martino IRCCS per l'Oncologia, Genoa, Italy
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Internal Medicine (DiMI), University of Genoa and Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
- Clinical and Experimental Oncology and Hematology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Tumor Biology and Immunology Lab, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
- College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar.
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Fusco L, Gazzi A, Shuck CE, Orecchioni M, Ahmed EI, Giro L, Zavan B, Yilmazer A, Ley K, Bedognetti D, Gogotsi Y, Delogu LG. V 4 C 3 MXene Immune Profiling and Modulation of T Cell-Dendritic Cell Function and Interaction. Small Methods 2023; 7:e2300197. [PMID: 37291737 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202300197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Although vanadium-based metallodrugs are recently explored for their effective anti-inflammatory activity, they frequently cause undesired side effects. Among 2D nanomaterials, transition metal carbides (MXenes) have received substantial attention for their promise as biomedical platforms. It is hypothesized that vanadium immune properties can be extended to MXene compounds. Therefore, vanadium carbide MXene (V4 C3 ) is synthetized, evaluating its biocompatibility and intrinsic immunomodulatory effects. By combining multiple experimental approaches in vitro and ex vivo on human primary immune cells, MXene effects on hemolysis, apoptosis, necrosis, activation, and cytokine production are investigated. Furthermore, V4 C3 ability is demonstrated to inhibit T cell-dendritic cell interactions, evaluating the modulation of CD40-CD40 ligand interaction, two key costimulatory molecules for immune activation. The material biocompatibility at the single-cell level on 17 human immune cell subpopulations by single-cell mass cytometry is confirmed. Finally, the molecular mechanism underlying V4 C3 immune modulation is explored, demonstrating a MXene-mediated downregulation of antigen presentation-associated genes in primary human immune cells. The findings set the basis for further V4 C3 investigation and application as a negative modulator of the immune response in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
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- Laura Fusco
- ImmuneNano Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, 35121, Italy
- A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Translational Medicine Department, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- ImmuneNano Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, 35121, Italy
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- A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Translational Medicine Department, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- ImmuneNano Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, 35121, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, 44121, Italy
- Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Ravenna, 48033, Italy
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- Stem Cell Institute, Ankara University, Ankara, 06520, Turkey
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
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- La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, CA, 92037, USA
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- Translational Medicine Department, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Genoa, Genoa, 16132, Italy
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
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- A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- ImmuneNano Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, 35121, Italy
- New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Roelands J, Kuppen PJK, Ahmed EI, Mall R, Masoodi T, Singh P, Monaco G, Raynaud C, de Miranda NFCC, Ferraro L, Carneiro-Lobo TC, Syed N, Rawat A, Awad A, Decock J, Mifsud W, Miller LD, Sherif S, Mohamed MG, Rinchai D, Van den Eynde M, Sayaman RW, Ziv E, Bertucci F, Petkar MA, Lorenz S, Mathew LS, Wang K, Murugesan S, Chaussabel D, Vahrmeijer AL, Wang E, Ceccarelli A, Fakhro KA, Zoppoli G, Ballestrero A, Tollenaar RAEM, Marincola FM, Galon J, Khodor SA, Ceccarelli M, Hendrickx W, Bedognetti D. An integrated tumor, immune and microbiome atlas of colon cancer. Nat Med 2023; 29:1273-1286. [PMID: 37202560 PMCID: PMC10202816 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02324-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
The lack of multi-omics cancer datasets with extensive follow-up information hinders the identification of accurate biomarkers of clinical outcome. In this cohort study, we performed comprehensive genomic analyses on fresh-frozen samples from 348 patients affected by primary colon cancer, encompassing RNA, whole-exome, deep T cell receptor and 16S bacterial rRNA gene sequencing on tumor and matched healthy colon tissue, complemented with tumor whole-genome sequencing for further microbiome characterization. A type 1 helper T cell, cytotoxic, gene expression signature, called Immunologic Constant of Rejection, captured the presence of clonally expanded, tumor-enriched T cell clones and outperformed conventional prognostic molecular biomarkers, such as the consensus molecular subtype and the microsatellite instability classifications. Quantification of genetic immunoediting, defined as a lower number of neoantigens than expected, further refined its prognostic value. We identified a microbiome signature, driven by Ruminococcus bromii, associated with a favorable outcome. By combining microbiome signature and Immunologic Constant of Rejection, we developed and validated a composite score (mICRoScore), which identifies a group of patients with excellent survival probability. The publicly available multi-omics dataset provides a resource for better understanding colon cancer biology that could facilitate the discovery of personalized therapeutic approaches.
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- Jessica Roelands
- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
- Biotechnology Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Neuropathology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- BIOGEM Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ariano Irpino, Italy
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- BIOGEM Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ariano Irpino, Italy
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Integrated Genomics Services, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer and Immunity Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Pathology, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Weill-Cornell Medicine Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Women's Wellness and Research Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DiMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Institut Roi Albert II, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Institute for Human Genetics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Laboratory of Predictive Oncology, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm UMR1068, CNRS UMR725, Marseille, France
- Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Integrated Genomics Services, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Integrated Genomics Services, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Integrated Genomics Services, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Computational Sciences Department, The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Nurix Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Medical Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
- Weill-Cornell Medicine Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DiMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
- IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DiMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
- IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
- Sonata Therapeutics, Watertown, MA, USA
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- Inserm, Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology, Equipe Labellisée Ligue Contre Le Cancer, Centre de Recherche de Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- BIOGEM Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ariano Irpino, Italy
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
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- Translational Medicine Division, Research Branch, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DiMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
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Sherif S, Roelands J, Mifsud W, Ahmed EI, Raynaud CM, Rinchai D, Sathappan A, Maaz A, Saleh A, Ozer E, Fakhro KA, Mifsud B, Thorsson V, Bedognetti D, Hendrickx WRL. The immune landscape of solid pediatric tumors. J Exp Clin Cancer Res 2022; 41:199. [PMID: 35690832 PMCID: PMC9188257 DOI: 10.1186/s13046-022-02397-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Large immunogenomic analyses have demonstrated the prognostic role of the functional orientation of the tumor microenvironment in adult solid tumors, this variable has been poorly explored in the pediatric counterpart.
Methods
We performed a systematic analysis of public RNAseq data (TARGET) for five pediatric tumor types (408 patients): Wilms tumor (WLM), neuroblastoma (NBL), osteosarcoma (OS), clear cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK) and rhabdoid tumor of the kidney (RT). We assessed the performance of the Immunologic Constant of Rejection (ICR), which captures an active Th1/cytotoxic response. We also performed gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) and clustered more than 100 well characterized immune traits to define immune subtypes and compared their outcome.
Results
A higher ICR score was associated with better survival in OS and high risk NBL without MYCN amplification but with poorer survival in WLM. Clustering of immune traits revealed the same five principal modules previously described in adult tumors (TCGA). These modules divided pediatric patients into six immune subtypes (S1-S6) with distinct survival outcomes. The S2 cluster showed the best overall survival, characterized by low enrichment of the wound healing signature, high Th1, and low Th2 infiltration, while the reverse was observed in S4. Upregulation of the WNT/Beta-catenin pathway was associated with unfavorable outcomes and decreased T-cell infiltration in OS.
Conclusions
We demonstrated that extracranial pediatric tumors could be classified according to their immune disposition, unveiling similarities with adults’ tumors. Immunological parameters might be explored to refine diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and to identify potential immune-responsive tumors.
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Prabhu KS, Raza A, Karedath T, Raza SS, Fathima H, Ahmed EI, Kuttikrishnan S, Therachiyil L, Kulinski M, Dermime S, Junejo K, Steinhoff M, Uddin S. Non-Coding RNAs as Regulators and Markers for Targeting of Breast Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12020351. [PMID: 32033146 PMCID: PMC7072613 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12020351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2019] [Revised: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Breast cancer is regarded as a heterogeneous and complicated disease that remains the prime focus in the domain of public health concern. Next-generation sequencing technologies provided a new perspective dimension to non-coding RNAs, which were initially considered to be transcriptional noise or a product generated from erroneous transcription. Even though understanding of biological and molecular functions of noncoding RNA remains enigmatic, researchers have established the pivotal role of these RNAs in governing a plethora of biological phenomena that includes cancer-associated cellular processes such as proliferation, invasion, migration, apoptosis, and stemness. In addition to this, the transmission of microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs was identified as a source of communication to breast cancer cells either locally or systemically. The present review provides in-depth information with an aim at discovering the fundamental potential of non-coding RNAs, by providing knowledge of biogenesis and functional roles of micro RNA and long non-coding RNAs in breast cancer and breast cancer stem cells, as either oncogenic drivers or tumor suppressors. Furthermore, non-coding RNAs and their potential role as diagnostic and therapeutic moieties have also been summarized.
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- Kirti S. Prabhu
- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +974-4439-0966
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.R.); (S.D.)
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Era University, Lucknow 226003, India;
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
- Qatar College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha 3050, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
- Qatar College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha 3050, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.R.); (S.D.)
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- General Surgery Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar;
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
- Department of Dermatology Venereology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar
- Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha 24144, Qatar
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (H.F.); (E.I.A.); (S.K.); (L.T.); (M.K.); (M.S.); (S.U.)
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Khan AQ, Ahmed EI, Elareer N, Fathima H, Prabhu KS, Siveen KS, Kulinski M, Azizi F, Dermime S, Ahmad A, Steinhoff M, Uddin S. Curcumin-Mediated Apoptotic Cell Death in Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Cancer Stem-Like Cells through Targeting of the JAK/STAT3 Signaling Pathway. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21020438. [PMID: 31936675 PMCID: PMC7014270 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21020438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Revised: 12/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The constitutive activation of Janus Kinase/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (JAK/STAT) signal transduction is well elucidated in STAT3-mediated oncogenesis related to thyroid cancer and is considered to be a plausible therapeutic target. Hence, we investigated whether curcumin, a natural compound, can target the JAK/STAT3 signaling pathway to induce cytotoxic effects in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) cell lines (BCPAP and TPC-1) and derived thyroid cancer stem-like cells (thyrospheres). Curcumin suppressed PTC cell survival in a dose-dependent manner via the induction of caspase-mediated apoptosis and caused the attenuation of constitutively active STAT3 (the dephosphorylation of Tyr705-STAT3) without affecting STAT3. Gene silencing with STAT3-specific siRNA showed the modulation of genes associated with cell growth and proliferation. The cotreatment of PTC cell lines with curcumin and cisplatin synergistically potentiated cytotoxic effects via the suppression of JAK/STAT3 activity along with the inhibition of antiapoptotic genes and the induction of proapoptotic genes, and it also suppressed the migration of PTC cells by downregulating matrix metalloproteinases and the inhibition of colony formation. Finally, thyrospheres treated with curcumin and cisplatin showed suppressed STAT3 phosphorylation, a reduced formation of thyrospheres, and the downregulated expression of stemness markers, in addition to apoptosis. The current study's findings suggest that curcumin synergistically enhances the anticancer activity of cisplatin in PTC cells as well as in cancer stem-like cells by targeting STAT3, which suggests that curcumin combined with chemotherapeutic agents may provide better therapeutic outcomes.
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- Abdul Q. Khan
- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
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- National Centre for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar;
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA
- Correspondence: (A.A.); (S.U.); Tel.: +1-24-8982-2566 (A.A.); +974-4025-3220 (S.U.)
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Qatar Foundation-Education City, Doha 24144, Qatar
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
- College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha 3050, Qatar; (A.Q.K.); (E.I.A.); (N.E.); (H.F.); (K.S.P.); (K.S.S.); (M.K.); (F.A.); (M.S.)
- Correspondence: (A.A.); (S.U.); Tel.: +1-24-8982-2566 (A.A.); +974-4025-3220 (S.U.)
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Kuttikrishnan S, Siveen KS, Prabhu KS, Khan AQ, Ahmed EI, Akhtar S, Ali TA, Merhi M, Dermime S, Steinhoff M, Uddin S. Curcumin Induces Apoptotic Cell Death via Inhibition of PI3-Kinase/AKT Pathway in B-Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Front Oncol 2019; 9:484. [PMID: 31275848 PMCID: PMC6593070 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a significant cancer of children resulting from the clonal proliferation of lymphoid precursors with arrested maturation. Although chemotherapeutic approaches have been achieving successful remission for the majority of cases of childhood ALL, development of resistance to chemotherapy has been observed. Thus, new therapeutic approaches are required to improve patient's prognosis. Therefore, we investigated the anticancer potential of curcumin in ALL. We tested a panel of B-precursor ALL (B-Pre-ALL) cell lines with various translocations after treatment with different doses of curcumin. Curcumin suppresses the viability in a concentration-dependent manner in 697, REH, SupB15, and RS4;11 cells (doses from 0 to 80 μM). Curcumin induces apoptosis in B-Pre-ALL cell lines via activation of caspase-8 and truncation of BID. Curcumin treatment increased the ratio of Bax/Bcl-2 and resulted in a leaky mitochondrial membrane that led to the discharge of cytochrome c from the mitochondria to the cytoplasm, the activation of caspase 3 and the cleavage of PARP. Curcumin treatment of B-Pre-ALL cell lines induced a dephosphorylation of the constitutive phosphorylated AKT/PKB and a down-regulation of the expression of cIAP1, and XIAP. Moreover, curcumin mediates its anticancer activity by the generation of reactive oxygen species. Finally, the suboptimal doses of curcumin potentiated the anticancer activity of cisplatin. Altogether, these results suggest an important therapeutic role of curcumin, acting as a growth suppressor of B-Pre-ALL by apoptosis via inactivation of AKT/PKB and down-regulation of IAPs and activation of intrinsic apoptotic pathway via generation of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). Our interesting findings raise the possibility of considering curcumin as a potential therapeutic agent for the treatment of B-Pre-ALL.
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- Shilpa Kuttikrishnan
- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- National Centre for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- National Centre for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,Department of Dermatology Venereology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,Weill Cornell-Medicine, Doha, Qatar.,Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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Siveen KS, Raza A, Ahmed EI, Khan AQ, Prabhu KS, Kuttikrishnan S, Mateo JM, Zayed H, Rasul K, Azizi F, Dermime S, Steinhoff M, Uddin S. The Role of Extracellular Vesicles as Modulators of the Tumor Microenvironment, Metastasis and Drug Resistance in Colorectal Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:cancers11060746. [PMID: 31146452 PMCID: PMC6628238 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11060746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2019] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, with high morbidity and mortality rates. A number of factors including modulation of the tumor microenvironment, high metastatic capability, and resistance to treatment have been associated with CRC disease progression. Recent studies have documented that tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a significant role in intercellular communication in CRC via transfer of cargo lipids, proteins, DNA and RNAs to the recipient tumor cells. This transfer influences a number of immune-related pathways leading to activation/differentiation/expression of immune cells and modulation of the tumor microenvironment that plays a significant role in CRC progression, metastasis, and drug resistance. Furthermore, tumor-derived EVs are secreted in large amounts in biological fluids of CRC patients and as such the expression analysis of EV cargoes have been associated with prognosis or response to therapy and may be a source of therapeutic targets. This review aims to provide a comprehensive insight into the role of EVs in the modulation of the tumor microenvironment and its effects on CRC progression, metastasis, and drug resistance. On the other hand, the potential role of CRC derived EVs as a source of biomarkers of response and therapeutic targets will be discussed in detail to understand the dynamic role of EVs in CRC diagnosis, treatment, and management.
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- Kodappully S Siveen
- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- College of Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, Qatar.
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
- Department of Dermatology Venereology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
- Weill Cornell-Medicine, Doha P.O. Box 24811, Qatar.
- Weill Cornell University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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- Academic Health System, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha P.O. Box 3050, Qatar.
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Akhtar S, Achkar IW, Siveen KS, Kuttikrishnan S, Prabhu KS, Khan AQ, Ahmed EI, Sahir F, Jerobin J, Raza A, Merhi M, Elsabah HM, Taha R, Omri HE, Zayed H, Dermime S, Steinhoff M, Uddin S. Sanguinarine Induces Apoptosis Pathway in Multiple Myeloma Cell Lines via Inhibition of the JaK2/STAT3 Signaling. Front Oncol 2019; 9:285. [PMID: 31058086 PMCID: PMC6478801 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Sanguinarine (SNG), a benzophenanthridine alkaloid, has displayed various anticancer abilities in several vivo and in vitro studies. However, the anticancer potential of SNG is yet to be established in multiple myeloma (MM), a mostly incurable malignancy of plasma cells. In this study, we aimed to investigate the potential anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic activities of SNG in a panel of MM cell lines (U266, IM9, MM1S, and RPMI-8226). SNG treatment of MM cells resulted in a dose-dependent decrease in cell viability through mitochondrial membrane potential loss and activation of caspase 3, 9, and cleavage of PARP. Pre-treatment of MM cells with a universal caspase inhibitor, Z-VAD-FMK, prevented SNG mediated loss of cell viability, apoptosis, and caspase activation, confirming that SNG-mediated apoptosis is caspase-dependent. The SNG-mediated apoptosis appears to be resulted from suppression of the constitutively active STAT3 with a concomitant increase in expression of protein tyrosine phosphatase (SHP-1). SNG treatment of MM cells leads to down-regulation of the anti-apoptotic proteins including cyclin D, Bcl-2, Bclxl, and XIAP. In addition, it also upregulates pro-apoptotic protein, Bax. SNG mediated cellular DNA damage in MM cell lines by induction of oxidative stress through the generation of reactive oxygen species and depletion of glutathione. Finally, the subtoxic concentration of SNG enhanced the cytotoxic effects of anticancer drugs bortezomib (BTZ) by suppressing the viability of MM cells via induction of caspase-mediated apoptosis. Altogether our findings demonstrate that SNG induces mitochondrial and caspase-dependent apoptosis, generates oxidative stress, and suppresses MM cell lines proliferation. In addition, co-treatment of MM cell lines with sub-toxic doses of SNG and BTZ potentiated the cytotoxic activity. These results would suggest that SNG could be developed into therapeutic agent either alone or in combination with other anticancer drugs in MM.
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- Sabah Akhtar
- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer Research Facility, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer Research Facility, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Cancer Research Facility, Translational Research Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,Department of Dermatology Venereology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.,Weill Cornell-Medicine, Doha, Qatar.,Weill Cornell-Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Translational Research Institute, Academic Health System, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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Osman MY, Sharaf IA, Osman HMY, El-Khouly ZA, Ahmed EI. Synthetic organic food colouring agents and their degraded products: effects on human and rat cholinesterases. Br J Biomed Sci 2004; 61:128-32. [PMID: 15462257 DOI: 10.1080/09674845.2004.11732657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
Most synthetic coloured additives are carcinogenic; teratogenic and cause allergic reactions. In this study, the effects of synthetic azo dyes (sunset yellow FCF and carmoisine), as well as their degraded products (sulphanilic acid and naphthionic acid), on both true and pseudo-cholinesterases (ChEs) are studied. The results indicate that the synthetic azo dyes and their degraded products inhibit both human true and pseudo-ChE activities in vitro. The concentration of coloured additive that cause 50% inhibition (IC50) and enzyme inhibitor dissociation constant (Ki) show that sunset yellow FCF produces greater inhibition of both true and pseudo-ChEs than does carmoisine and sulphanilic acid, while naphthionic acid produces greater inhibition of pseudo-ChE only. Ki indicates that the affinity of sulphanilic acid for both true and pseudo-ChEs is higher than the other three inhibitors. Inhibition of both true and pseudo-ChEs by sunset yellow FCF is of mixed (competitive and non-competitive) type, but carmoisine and sulphanilic acid are non-competitive. Naphthionic acid produces a competitive inhibition kinetic with plasma ChE only. This inhibition is abolished by dialysis, indicating that their effects are reversible. The effects of sunset yellow FCF, carmoisine, sulphanilic acid and naphthionic acid on rat true and pseudo-ChEs are investigated. The data clearly show that there is a significant decrease in enzyme activity. Sulphanilic acid and sunset yellow FCF are the most potent in vivo inhibitors of true ChE and pseudo-ChE, respectively.
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- M Y Osman
- Department of Biochemistry, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
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