Periostin facilitates ovarian cancer recurrence by enhancing cancer stemness

Autor: Zhiqing Huang, Olivia Byrd, Sarah Tan, Katrina Hu, Bailey Knight, Gaomong Lo, Lila Taylor, Yuan Wu, Andrew Berchuck, Susan K. Murphy
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48485-8
Popis: Abstract The lethality of epithelial ovarian cancer (OC) is largely due to a high rate of recurrence and development of chemoresistance, which requires synergy between cancer cells and the tumor microenvironment (TME) and is thought to involve cancer stem cells. Our analysis of gene expression microarray data from paired primary and recurrent OC tissues revealed significantly elevated expression of the gene encoding periostin (POSTN) in recurrent OC compared to matched primary tumors (p = 0.015). Secreted POSTN plays a role in the extracellular matrix, facilitating epithelial cell migration and tissue regeneration. We therefore examined how elevated extracellular POSTN, as we found is present in recurrent OC, impacts OC cell functions and phenotypes, including stemness. OC cells cultured with conditioned media with high levels of periostin (CM POSTNhigh ) exhibited faster migration (p = 0.0044), enhanced invasiveness (p = 0.006), increased chemoresistance (p
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