Targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts/tumor cells cross-talk inhibits intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma progression via cell-cycle arrest.

Autor: Mancarella S; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Gigante I; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Pizzuto E; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Serino G; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Terzi A; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Dituri F; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Maiorano E; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., Vincenti L; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy., De Bellis M; Division of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dentistry, Gynecology and Pediatrics, University of Verona, G.B. Rossi University Hospital, P.le L.A. Scuro 10, Verona, 37134, Italy., Ardito F; Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Foundation 'Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli', IRCCS, Catholic University, Rome, Italy., Calvisi DF; Institute of Pathology, University of Regensburg, 93053, Regensburg, Germany., Giannelli G; National Institute of Gastroenterology, IRCCS 'S. de Bellis' Research Hospital, Via Turi 27, Castellana Grotte, BA, 70013, Italy. gianluigi.giannelli@irccsdebellis.it.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR [J Exp Clin Cancer Res] 2024 Oct 17; Vol. 43 (1), pp. 286. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 17.
DOI: 10.1186/s13046-024-03210-9
Abstrakt: Background: Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), mainly responsible for the desmoplastic reaction hallmark of intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA), likely have a role in tumor aggressiveness and resistance to therapy, although the molecular mechanisms involved are unknown. Aim of the study is to investigate how targeting hCAF/iCCA cross-talk with a Notch1 inhibitor, namely Crenigacestat, may affect cancer progression.
Methods: We used different in vitro models in 2D and established new 3D hetero-spheroids with iCCA cells and human (h)CAFs. The results were confirmed in a xenograft model, and explanted tumoral tissues underwent transcriptomic and bioinformatic analysis.
Results: hCAFs/iCCA cross-talk sustains increased migration of both KKU-M213 and KKU-M156 cells, while Crenigacestat significantly inhibits only the cross-talk stimulated migration. Hetero-spheroids grew larger than homo-spheroids, formed by only iCCA cells. Crenigacestat significantly reduced the invasion and growth of hetero- but not of homo-spheroids. In xenograft models, hCAFs/KKU-M213 tumors grew significantly larger than KKU-M213 tumors, but were significantly reduced in volume by Crenigacestat treatment, which also significantly decreased the fibrotic reaction. Ingenuity pathway analysis revealed that genes of hCAFs/KKU-M213 but not of KKU-M213 tumors increased tumor lesions, and that Crenigacestat treatment inhibited the modulated canonical pathways. Cell cycle checkpoints were the most notably modulated pathway and Crenigacestat reduced CCNE2 gene expression, consequently inducing cell cycle arrest. In hetero-spheroids, the number of cells increased in the G2/M cell cycle phase, while Crenigacestat significantly decreased cell numbers in the G2/M phase in hetero but not in homo-spheroids.
Conclusions: The hCAFs/iCCA cross-talk is a new target for reducing cancer progression with drugs such as Crenigacestat.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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