Up-regulation of Dsg2 confered stem cells with malignancy through wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway

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In the previous study, we originally developed cancer stem cells (CSCs) models from mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (miPSCs) by culturing miPSCs in the conditioned medium of cancer cell lines, which mimiced as carcinoma microenvironment. However, the molecular mechanism of conversion in detail remains to be uncovered. Microarray analysis of the CSCs models in this study revealed Dsg2, one of the members of the desmosomal cadherin family, was up-regulated when compared with the original miPSCs. Moreover, the expression of key factors in Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway were also found up-regulated in one of the CSCs models, named miPS-LLCcm. An autocrine loop was implied between Dsg2 and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway when miPSCs were treated with Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway activators, Wnt3a and CHIR99021, and when the CSCs model were treated with inhibitors, IWR-1 and IWP-2. Furthermore, the ability of proliferation and self-renewal in the CSCs model was markedly decreased in vitro and in vivo when Dsg2 gene was knocked down by shRNA. Our results showed that the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is activated by the up-regulation of Dsg2 expresssion during the conversion of miPSCs into CSCs implying a potential mechanism of the tranformation of stem cells into malignant phenotype.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:422

Enthalten in:

Experimental cell research - 422(2023), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 113416

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yanxia [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Yanning [VerfasserIn]
Afify, Said M [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Ang [VerfasserIn]
Du, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bingbing [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Xiaoying [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yixin [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Zhengmao [VerfasserIn]
Seno, Masaharu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Beta Catenin
Cancer stem cells
Chir 99021
Desmoglein 2
Dsg2
Dsg2 protein, mouse
Journal Article
Malignant conversion
MiPS
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway

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Date Completed 09.01.2023

Date Revised 09.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.yexcr.2022.113416

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348889836