Development and characterization of the novel human osteosarcoma cell line COS-33 with sustained activation of the mTOR pathway

Outcomes have not improved for metastatic osteosarcoma for several decades. In part, this failure to develop better therapies stems from a lack of understanding of osteosarcoma biology, given the rarity of the disease and the high genetic heterogeneity at the time of diagnosis. We report here the successful establishment of a new human osteosarcoma cell line, COS-33, from a patient-derived xenograft and demonstrate retention of the biological features of the original tumor. We found high mTOR signaling activity in the cultured cells, which were sensitive to a small molecule inhibitor, rapamycin, a suppressor of the mTOR pathway. Suppressed mTOR signaling after treatment with rapamycin was confirmed by decreased phosphorylation of the S6 ribosomal protein. Increasing concentrations of rapamycin progressively inhibited cell proliferation in vitro. We observed significant inhibitory effects of the drug on cell migration, invasion, and colony formation in the cultured cells. Furthermore, we found that only a strong osteogenic inducer, bone morphogenetic protein-2, promoted the cells to differentiate into mature mineralizing osteoblasts, indicating that the COS-33 cell line may have impaired osteoblast differentiation. Grafted COS-33 cells exhibited features typical of osteosarcoma, such as production of osteoid and tumorigenicity in vivo. In addition, we revealed that the COS-33 cell line retained a complex karyotype, a homozygous deletion of the TP53 gene, and typical histological features from its original tumor. Our novel cellular model may provide a valuable platform for studying the etiology and molecular pathogenesis of osteosarcoma as well as for testing novel drugs for future genome-informed targeted therapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Oncotarget - 11(2020), 27 vom: 07. Juli, Seite 2597-2610

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

VanCleave, Ashley [VerfasserIn]
Palmer, Mykayla [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Haydee [VerfasserIn]
Rodezno, Tania [VerfasserIn]
Li, Qilin [VerfasserIn]
Fuglsby, Kirby [VerfasserIn]
Evans, Claire [VerfasserIn]
Afeworki, Yohannes [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Alan [VerfasserIn]
Rao, Pulivarthi [VerfasserIn]
Leiferman, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Siyuan [VerfasserIn]
Houghton, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Tao, Jianning [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COS-33
Journal Article
MTOR
Osteogenic differentiation
Osteosarcoma
TP53

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Date Revised 02.10.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/oncotarget.27611

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31252532X