TY - JOUR
T1 - Hypoxia, inflammation and necrosis as determinants of glioblastoma cancer stem cells progression
AU - Papale, Marco
AU - Buccarelli, Mariachiara
AU - Mollinari, Cristiana
AU - Russo, Matteo A.
AU - Pallini, Roberto
AU - Ricci-Vitiani, Lucia
AU - Tafani, Marco
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the Ministry of Health, Ricerca Finalizzata RF-2011-02349126.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/4/2
Y1 - 2020/4/2
N2 - Tumor hypoxic microenvironment causes hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1ff) activation and necrosis with alarmins release. Importantly, HIF-1ff also controls the expression of alarmin receptors in tumor cells that can bind to and be activated by alarmins. Human tumor tissues possess 1-2% of cancer stem cells (CSCs) residing in hypoxic niches and responsible for the metastatic potential of tumors. Our hypothesis is that hypoxic CSCs express alarmin receptors that can bind alarmins released during necrosis, an event favoring CSCs migration. To investigate this aspect, glioblastoma stem-like cell (GSC) lines were kept under hypoxia to determine the expression of hypoxic markers as well as receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE). The presence of necrotic extracts increased migration, invasion and cellular adhesion. Importantly, HIF-1ff inhibition by digoxin or acriflavine prevented the response of GSCs to hypoxia alone or plus necrotic extracts. In vivo, GSCs injected in one brain hemisphere of NOD/SCID mice were induced to migrate to the other one in which a necrotic extract was previously injected. In conclusion, our results show that hypoxia is important not only for GSCs maintenance but also for guiding their response to external necrosis. Inhibition of hypoxic pathway may therefore represent a target for preventing brain invasion by glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs).
AB - Tumor hypoxic microenvironment causes hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF-1ff) activation and necrosis with alarmins release. Importantly, HIF-1ff also controls the expression of alarmin receptors in tumor cells that can bind to and be activated by alarmins. Human tumor tissues possess 1-2% of cancer stem cells (CSCs) residing in hypoxic niches and responsible for the metastatic potential of tumors. Our hypothesis is that hypoxic CSCs express alarmin receptors that can bind alarmins released during necrosis, an event favoring CSCs migration. To investigate this aspect, glioblastoma stem-like cell (GSC) lines were kept under hypoxia to determine the expression of hypoxic markers as well as receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE). The presence of necrotic extracts increased migration, invasion and cellular adhesion. Importantly, HIF-1ff inhibition by digoxin or acriflavine prevented the response of GSCs to hypoxia alone or plus necrotic extracts. In vivo, GSCs injected in one brain hemisphere of NOD/SCID mice were induced to migrate to the other one in which a necrotic extract was previously injected. In conclusion, our results show that hypoxia is important not only for GSCs maintenance but also for guiding their response to external necrosis. Inhibition of hypoxic pathway may therefore represent a target for preventing brain invasion by glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs).
KW - Alarmins
KW - Cancer stem cells
KW - Glioblastoma
KW - Hypoxia
KW - Molecular rehabilitation
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U2 - 10.3390/ijms21082660
DO - 10.3390/ijms21082660
M3 - Article
C2 - 32290386
AN - SCOPUS:85083418575
VL - 21
JO - International Journal of Molecular Sciences
JF - International Journal of Molecular Sciences
SN - 1661-6596
IS - 8
M1 - 2660
ER -