A `one-two punch' therapy strategy to target chemoresistance in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer

Autor: Feng Chi, Jiayi Liu, Samuel W. Brady, Patrick A. Cosgrove, Aritro Nath, Jasmine A. McQuerry, Sumana Majumdar, Philip J. Moos, Jeffrey T. Chang, Michael Kahn, Andrea H. Bild
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Translational Oncology, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 100946- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1936-5233
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranon.2020.100946
Popis: Cancer cell phenotypes evolve during a tumor's treatment. In some cases, tumor cells acquire cancer stem cell-like (CSL) traits such as resistance to chemotherapy and diminished differentiation; therefore, targeting these cells may be therapeutically beneficial. In this study we show that in progressive estrogen receptor positive (ER+) metastatic breast cancer tumors, resistant subclones that emerge following chemotherapy have increased CSL abundance. Further, in vitro organoid growth of ER+ patient cancer cells also shows that chemotherapy treatment leads to increased abundance of ALDH+/CD44+ CSL cells. Chemotherapy induced CSL abundance is blocked by treatment with a pan-HDAC inhibitor, belinostat. Belinostat treatment diminished both mammosphere formation and size following chemotherapy, indicating a decrease in progenitor CSL traits. HDAC inhibitors specific to class IIa (HDAC4, HDAC5) and IIb (HDAC6) were shown to primarily reverse the chemo-resistant CSL state. Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis with patient samples showed that HDAC targets and MYC signaling were promoted by chemotherapy and inhibited upon HDAC inhibitor treatment. In summary, HDAC inhibition can block chemotherapy-induced drug resistant phenotypes with ‘one-two punch’ strategy in refractory breast cancer cells.
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