Impact of RUNX2 gene silencing on the gemcitabine sensitivity of p53mutated pancreatic cancer MiaPaCa2 spheres.
Oncol Rep
; 39(6): 2749-2758, 2018 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
Recently, it has been wellrecognized that the response toward anticancer drugs differs between two and threedimensional (2D and 3D) in vitro cancer cell growth models. In the present study, we have demonstrated that, similar to the conventional 2D monolayer culture systems which often lack in vivo physiological insights, RUNX2 gene silencing increases the gemcitabine (GEM) sensitivity of the 3D spheres generated from p53mutated pancreatic cancer MiaPaCa2 cells. According to our results, MiaPaCa2 cells, but not p53wildtype pancreatic cancer SW1990 cells efficiently formed sphere structures in serumfree sphereforming medium. Although GEM treatment caused a marked induction of TAp73/TAp63 in MiaPaCa2 spheres accompanied by the transcriptional activation of p53 familytarget genes such as p21WAF1 and NOXA, only 20% of cells underwent cell death. Under these experimental conditions, mutant p53 expression level was increased in response to GEM and RUNX2 remained unchanged at the protein level regardless of GEM exposure, which may suppress the proapoptotic activity of TAp73/TAp63. Notably, RUNX2 gene silencing markedly augmented GEMmediated cell death of MiaPaCa2 spheres compared to that of nondepleted ones. Expression analyses revealed that forced depletion of RUNX2 further stimulated GEMinduced upregulation of TAp63 as well as its downstream target genes such as p21WAF1 and NOXA. In summary, our observations strongly indicated that, similarly to 2D monolayer culture, RUNX2 gene silencing increased GEM sensitivity of MiaPaCa2 spheres and highlighted the therapeutic potential of RUNX2 in pancreatic cancer with p53 mutation.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias Pancreáticas
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Proteína Supressora de Tumor p53
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Esferoides Celulares
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Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos
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Desoxicitidina
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Subunidade alfa 1 de Fator de Ligação ao Core
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Oncol Rep
Assunto da revista:
NEOPLASIAS
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Japão