Influence of Estrogen Treatment on ESR1+ and ESR1- Cells in ER+ Breast Cancer : Insights from Single-Cell Analysis of Patient-Derived Xenograft Models

A 100% ER positivity is not required for an endocrine therapy response. Furthermore, while estrogen typically promotes the progression of hormone-dependent breast cancer via the activation of estrogen receptor (ER)-α, estrogen-induced tumor suppression in ER+ breast cancer has been clinically observed. With the success in establishing estrogen-stimulated (SC31) and estrogen-suppressed (GS3) patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models, single-cell RNA sequencing analysis was performed to determine the impact of estrogen on ESR1+ and ESR1- tumor cells. We found that 17β-estradiol (E2)-induced suppression of GS3 transpired through wild-type and unamplified ERα. E2 upregulated the expression of estrogen-dependent genes in both SC31 and GS3; however, E2 induced cell cycle advance in SC31, while it resulted in cell cycle arrest in GS3. Importantly, these gene expression changes occurred in both ESR1+ and ESR1- cells within the same breast tumors, demonstrating for the first time a differential effect of estrogen on ESR1- cells. E2 also upregulated a tumor-suppressor gene, IL-24, in GS3. The apoptosis gene set was upregulated and the G2M checkpoint gene set was downregulated in most IL-24+ cells after E2 treatment. In summary, estrogen affected pathologically defined ER+ tumors differently, influencing both ESR1+ and ESR1- cells. Our results also suggest IL-24 to be a potential marker of estrogen-suppressed tumors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Cancers - 13(2021), 24 vom: 19. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mori, Hitomi [VerfasserIn]
Saeki, Kohei [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Gregory [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jinhui [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Xiwei [VerfasserIn]
Hsu, Pei-Yin [VerfasserIn]
Kanaya, Noriko [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaoqiang [VerfasserIn]
Somlo, George [VerfasserIn]
Nakamura, Masafumi [VerfasserIn]
Bild, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shiuan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aromatase inhibitor resistance
ER-positive breast cancer
ESR1+ and ESR1– cells
Estrogen-induced cell cycle arrest
IL-24
Journal Article
Patient-derived tumor xenograft
Single-cell RNA sequencing

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Date Revised 29.12.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers13246375

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334809010