αB-crystallin is elevated in highly infiltrative apoptosis-resistant glioblastoma  cells.

RNA, Messenger; RNA, Small Interfering; TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; alpha-Crystallin B Chain; Animals; Apoptosis; Blotting, Western; Brain/metabolism/pathology; Cell Adhesion; Cell Movement; Cell Proliferation; Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; Fluorescent Antibody Technique; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; Glioblastoma/metabolism/pathology; Humans; Immunoenzyme Techniques; RNA, Messenger/genetics; RNA, Small Interfering/genetics; Rats; Rats, Nude; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; Spheroids, Cellular/metabolism/pathology; TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand/metabolism; Tissue Array Analysis; Transplantation, Heterologous; Tumor Cells, Cultured; alpha-Crystallin B Chain/antagonists & inhibitors/genetics/metabolism

Abstract :

[en] We have previously established two distinct glioma phenotypes by serial xenotransplantation of human glioblastoma (GBM) biopsies in nude rats. These tumors undergo a gradual transition from a highly invasive nonangiogenic to a less-invasive angiogenic phenotype. In a protein screen to identify molecular markers associated with the infiltrative phenotype, we identified α-basic-crystallin (αBc), a small heat-shock protein with cytoprotective properties. Its increased expression in the infiltrative phenotype was validated by immunohistochemistry and Western blots, confirming its identity to be tumor-derived and not from the host. Stereotactic human GBM biopsies taken from MRI-defined areas verified stronger αBc expression in the infiltrative edge compared to the tumor core. Cell migration assays and immunofluorescence staining showed αBc to be expressed by migrating cells in vitro. To determine αBc function, we altered its expression levels. αBc siRNA depletion caused a loss of migrating tumor cells from biopsy spheroids and delayed monolayer wound closure. In contrast, glioma cell migration in a Boyden chamber assay was unaffected by either αBc knockdown or overexpression, indicating that αBc is not functionally linked to the cell migration machinery. However, after siRNA αBc depletion, a significant sensitization of cells to various apoptotic inducers was observed (actinomycin, tumor necrosis factor α, and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand [TRAIL]). In conclusion, αBc is overexpressed by highly migratory glioma cells where it plays a functional role in apoptosis resistance.

Disciplines :

Oncology

Author, co-author :

Goplen, Dorota; Department of Oncology and Medical Physics, Haukeland University Hospital, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway. dorota@goplen.net

Bougnaud, Sébastien

Rajcevic, Uros

Bøe, Stig O

Skaftnesmo, Kai O

Voges, Juergen

Enger, Per Ø

Wang, Jian

Tysnes, Berit B

Laerum, Ole D

NICLOU, Simone P. ; NorLux Neuro Oncology Laboratory, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Bjerkvig, Rolf

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

αB-crystallin is elevated in highly infiltrative apoptosis-resistant glioblastoma cells.

Publication date :

October 2010

Journal title :

American Journal of Pathology

ISSN :

0002-9440

eISSN :

1525-2191

Publisher :

American Society for Investigative Pathology, United States - Maryland

Volume :

177

Issue :

Pages :

1618-28

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