Cisplatin-resistant cells in malignant pleural mesothelioma cell lines show ALDH(high)CD44(+) phenotype and sphere-forming capacity

Cortes-Dericks, Lourdes; Froment, Laurène; Boesch, Ruben; Schmid, Ralph; Karoubi, Golnaz (2014). Cisplatin-resistant cells in malignant pleural mesothelioma cell lines show ALDH(high)CD44(+) phenotype and sphere-forming capacity. BMC cancer, 14, p. 304. BioMed Central 10.1186/1471-2407-14-304

[img]
Preview
Text
1471-2407-14-304.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution (CC-BY).

Download (2MB) | Preview

BACKGROUND

Conventional chemotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) has minimal impact on patient survival due to the supposed chemoresistance of cancer stem cells (CSCs). We sought to identify a sub-population of chemoresistant cells by using putative CSC markers, aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) and CD44 in three MPM cell lines; H28, H2052 and Meso4.

METHODS

The Aldefluor assay was used to measure ALDH activity and sort ALDH(high) and ALDH(low) cells. Drug-resistance was evaluated by cell viability, anchorage-independent sphere formation, flow-cytometry and qRT-PCR analyses.

RESULTS

The ALDH(high) - and ALDH(low) -sorted fractions were able to demonstrate phenotypic heterogeneity and generate spheres, the latter being less efficient, and both showed an association with CD44. Cis- diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (cisplatin) treatment failed to reduce ALDH activity and conferred only a short-term inhibition of sphere generation in both ALDH(high) and ALDH(low) fractions of the three MPM cell lines. Induction of drug sensitivity by an ALDH inhibitor, diethylaminobenzaldehyde (DEAB) resulted in significant reductions in cell viability but not a complete elimination of the sphere-forming cells, suggestive of the presence of a drug-resistant subpopulation. At the transcript level, the cisplatin + DEAB-resistant cells showed upregulated mRNA expression levels for ALDH1A2, ALDH1A3 isozymes and CD44 indicating the involvement of these markers in conferring chemoresistance in both ALDH(high) and ALDH(low) fractions of the three MPM cell lines.

CONCLUSIONS

Our study shows that ALDH(high) CD44(+) cells are implicated in conveying tolerance to cisplatin in the three MPM cell lines. The combined use of CD44 and ALDH widens the window for identification and targeting of a drug-resistant population which may improve the current treatment modalities in mesothelioma.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Thoracic Surgery
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > Forschungsbereich Mu50 > Forschungsgruppe Thoraxchirurgie

UniBE Contributor:

Cortes-Dericks, Lourdes, Froment, Laurène, Schmid, Ralph, Karoubi, Golnaz

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1471-2407

Publisher:

BioMed Central

Language:

English

Submitter:

Thomas Michael Marti

Date Deposited:

16 Mar 2015 12:59

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:42

Publisher DOI:

10.1186/1471-2407-14-304

PubMed ID:

24884875

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.64709

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/64709

Actions (login required)

Edit item Edit item
Provide Feedback