Morphological and molecular characteristics of spheroid formation in HT-29 and Caco-2 colorectal cancer cell lines.

Autor: Gheytanchi E; Oncopathology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Naseri M; Oncopathology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.; Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Karimi-Busheri F; Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada., Atyabi F; Nanotechnology Research Centre, Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Mirsharif ES; Immunoregulation Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran., Bozorgmehr M; Oncopathology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Ghods R; Oncopathology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ghods.ro@iums.ac.ir.; Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ghods.ro@iums.ac.ir., Madjd Z; Oncopathology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. majdjabari.z@iums.ac.ir.; Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. majdjabari.z@iums.ac.ir.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cancer cell international [Cancer Cell Int] 2021 Apr 13; Vol. 21 (1), pp. 204. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 13.
DOI: 10.1186/s12935-021-01898-9
Abstrakt: Background: Relapse and metastasis in colorectal cancer (CRC) are often attributed to cancer stem-like cells (CSCs), as small sub-population of tumor cells with ability of drug resistance. Accordingly, development of appropriate models to investigate CSCs biology and establishment of effective therapeutic strategies is warranted. Hence, we aimed to assess the capability of two widely used and important colorectal cancer cell lines, HT-29 and Caco-2, in generating spheroids and their detailed morphological and molecular characteristics.
Methods: CRC spheroids were developed using hanging drop and forced floating in serum-free and non-attachment conditions and their morphological features were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Then, the potential of CSCs enrichment in spheroids was compared to their adherent counterparts by analysis of serial sphere formation capacity, real-time PCR of key stemness genes (KLF4, OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, C-MYC) and the expression of potential CRC-CSCs surface markers (CD166, CD44, and CD133) by flow cytometry. Finally, the expression level of some EMT-related (Vimentin, SNAIL1, TWIST1, N-cadherin, E-cadherin, ZEB1) and multi-drug resistant (ABCB1, ABCC1, ABCG2) genes was evaluated.
Results: Although with different morphological features, both cell lines were formed CSCs-enriched spheroids, indicated by ability to serial sphere formation, significant up-regulation of stemness genes, SOX2, C-MYC, NANOG and OCT4 in HT-29 and SOX2, C-MYC and KLF4 in Caco-2 spheroids (p-value < 0.05) and increased expression of CRC-CSC markers compared to parental cells (p-value < 0.05). Additionally, HT-29 spheroids exhibited a significant higher expression of both ABCB1 and ABCG2 (p-value = 0.02). The significant up-regulation of promoting EMT genes, ZEB1, TWIST1, E-cadherin and SNAIL1 in HT-29 spheroids (p-value = 0.03), SNAIL1 and Vimentin in Caco-2 spheroids (p-value < 0.05) and N-cadherin down-regulation in both spheroids were observed.
Conclusion: Enrichment of CSC-related features in HT-29 and Caco-2 (for the first time without applying special scaffold/biochemical) spheroids, suggests spheroid culture as robust, reproducible, simple and cost-effective model to imitate the complexity of in vivo tumors including self-renewal, drug resistance and invasion for in vitro research of CRC-CSCs.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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