Blockade of Notch3 inhibits the stem-like property and is associated with ALDH1A1 and CD44 via autophagy in non-small lung cancer

  • Authors:
    • Yuanyuan Ma
    • Mingzhen Li
    • Jiahui Si
    • Ying Xiong
    • Fangliang Lu
    • Jianzhi Zhang
    • Liyi Zhang
    • Panpan Zhang
    • Yue Yang
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  • Published online on: March 30, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3464
  • Pages: 2349-2358
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Abstract

Acquired resistance to standard chemotherapy causes treatment failure in patients with local advanced and advanced non-small lung cancer (NSCLC). Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small subpopulation within cancer that is thought to be resistant to conventional chemotherapy. The Notch pathway is one of the most intensively studied for putative therapeutic targets of CSCs in solid tumors. In our study, suppression of Notch3 decreased colony and sphere formation of stem-like property in lung cancer cells. In addition, Notch3 expression was demonstrated to be upregulated in the patients with chemoresistance and related to poor prognosis of NSCLC patients. Our results also showed that CSC markers ALDH1A1 and CD44 were highly expressed in NSCLC patients with chemoresistance and these two markers were positively correlated with Notch3 expression in lung cancer specimens from TCGA database. Furthermore, the lung cancer cells with drug resistance were shown to be associated with activation of autophagy. All the data support a crucial role of Notch3 in the increase of stem-like property in NSCLC cells that might be associated with upregulation of ALDH1A1 and CD44 and activation of autophagy.
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June-2016
Volume 48 Issue 6

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Ma Y, Li M, Si J, Xiong Y, Lu F, Zhang J, Zhang L, Zhang P and Yang Y: Blockade of Notch3 inhibits the stem-like property and is associated with ALDH1A1 and CD44 via autophagy in non-small lung cancer. Int J Oncol 48: 2349-2358, 2016
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Ma, Y., Li, M., Si, J., Xiong, Y., Lu, F., Zhang, J. ... Yang, Y. (2016). Blockade of Notch3 inhibits the stem-like property and is associated with ALDH1A1 and CD44 via autophagy in non-small lung cancer. International Journal of Oncology, 48, 2349-2358. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3464
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Ma, Y., Li, M., Si, J., Xiong, Y., Lu, F., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, P., Yang, Y."Blockade of Notch3 inhibits the stem-like property and is associated with ALDH1A1 and CD44 via autophagy in non-small lung cancer". International Journal of Oncology 48.6 (2016): 2349-2358.
Chicago
Ma, Y., Li, M., Si, J., Xiong, Y., Lu, F., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, P., Yang, Y."Blockade of Notch3 inhibits the stem-like property and is associated with ALDH1A1 and CD44 via autophagy in non-small lung cancer". International Journal of Oncology 48, no. 6 (2016): 2349-2358. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3464