Overexpression of Tyro3 receptor tyrosine kinase leads to the acquisition of taxol resistance in ovarian cancer cells

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Abstract

The majority of patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at the advanced stages (III/IV) and their 5‑year‑survival rate is relatively low. One of the major causes of the poor prognosis of ovarian cancer is the development of resistance to first‑line chemotherapy, including platinum and taxol. Therefore, improvements in current understanding of chemoresistance is required for the successful treatment of ovarian cancer. In the present study, taxol‑resistant ovarian cancer cells, SKOV3/TR, were established by exposing parental SKOV3 cells to increasing concentrations of taxol. . Briefly, cells were treated with 1.5 nM (for 4 weeks), 3 nM (for 4 weeks), 6 nM (for 5 weeks), 12 nM (for 5 weeks) and 24 nM taxol (for 8 weeks) over 6 months. The SKOV3/TR cells were found to be smaller in size and rounder in shape compared with their parental cells. Cell viability and colony formation assays demonstrated an increase in the population doubling time of the SKOV3/TR cells, indicating a reduction in the proliferative capacity of these cells. Reverse transcription‑polymerase chain reaction and western blot analysis revealed that, among the TAM receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), the mRNA and protein expression levels of Tyro3 RTK were increased, while those of Axl and Mer RTK were decreased in the SKOV3/TR cells. In addition, restoration of the level of Tyro3 by transfecting Tyro3‑specific small interfering RNA into the SKOV3/TR cells reduced the proliferative capacity of the cells, indicating that upregulation of the expression of Tyro3 in SKOV3/TR cells may promote survival in the presence of taxol, which eventually resulted in the acquisition of resistance upon taxol treatment. The present study subsequently found that, in the SKOV3/TR cells, the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) was elevated, and antioxidant treatment with N‑acetyl cysteine (NAC) exerted more profound antiproliferative effects compared with the parental cells. The western blot analysis demonstrated that treatment of the SKOV3/TR cells with NAC reduced the protein expression of Tyro3, and the inhibitory effect of NAC on the phosphorylation of Akt was increased, which may have had a positive effect on the proliferation of the SKOV3/TR cells. The levels of phosphorylation and protein expression of signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 (STAT3) were not affected by NAC treatment, indicating that the phosphorylation of Akt, but not expression or phosphorylation of STAT3, was associated with the increased intracellular ROS level in the SKOV3/TR cells. Taken together, the results of the present study demonstrated that the acquired taxol resistance of ovarian cancer cells was associated with ROS‑dependent upregulation in the expression of Tyro3 RTK and the subsequent activation of Akt.

Introduction

The majority of patients with ovarian cancer (>80%) are found to have metastasis when they are first diagnosed (1). Therefore, cytoreductive surgery and subsequent chemotherapy is common in the treatment of ovarian cancer. For the last 30 years, the chemotherapy regimens for ovarian cancer have been developed using one or a combination of cytotoxic agents, including melphalan, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, cisplatin, carboplatin and paclitaxel (2,3). Following a long-term follow-up study by Goldberg et al, which demonstrated the significant antiproliferative effect of paclitaxel in platinum-refractory patients (4), the addition of paclitaxel to platinum-based chemotherapy has been established as a standard treatment in ovarian cancer. While the majority of patients initially respond to the first-line chemotherapy of a combination of paclitaxel and cisplatin/carboplatin, it has been reported that ~30% of patients in advanced stages are unresponsive, exhibiting intrinsic chemoresistance, and initial responders also eventually acquire chemoresistance over time (58). These intrinsic and acquired resistances to chemotherapeutic agents have been a major obstacle in the treatment of ovarian cancer, and the underlying molecular mechanisms remain to be fully elucidated.

There are >90 types of protein tyrosine kinase in the human genome, 58 of which are receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) containing a transmembrane domain, and they have been classified into 20 families (9). The TAM family, a subfamily of RTK, consists of three RTKs; Tyro3, also termed Sky; Axl, also termed Ark and Ufo; and Mer (1013). These RTKs have similar extracellular regions, two immunoglobin-like domains and two fibronectin type III repeats, and a conserved kinase domain within the cytoplasmic region (14). The growth arrest-specific 6 (Gas 6) and protein S vitamin K-dependent proteins have been identified as the biological ligands, which bind to TAM RTKs and transduce a variety of intracellular downstream signals including those involved in cell proliferation and survival, inhibition of apoptosis, cell adhesion, cell morphology and motility (15,16). TAM receptors have been demonstrated as being important in normal cellular function involved in the initiation and progression of several types of cancer (17). Notably, the protein levels of Axl, Mer and/or Gas 6 have been reported to be elevated in numerous cancer cell lines and patient samples, including leukemia (18,19), multiple myeloma (20), breast cancer (21,22), colon cancer (23), gastric cancer (24), liver cancer (25), melanoma (26), ovarian cancer (27), prostate cancer (28) and renal cell carcinoma (29). Therefore, these TAM RTKs and their ligands may be reliable biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of various types of cancer and offer potential targets for the their treatment.

In the present study, SKOV3/TR taxol-resistant ovarian cancer cells were established to investigate the biological effects of TAM RTKs and the mechanisms underlying the development of resistance, which may serve as possible interventions to restore the chemosensitivity of these resistant cells.

Materials and methods

Reagents and antibodies

Primers for Axl, Tyro3, Mer and GAPDH were synthesized from Bioneer, Inc. (Daejoun, Korea). TRIzol reagent was obtained from Solgent (Daejoun, Korea). AmpliTaq DNA polymerase was obtained from Roche diagnostics (Indianapolis, IN, USA). For western blot analysis, 10× Tris-buffered saline with Tween-20 (TBST; cat. no. sc-24953) and specific antibodies against phosphorylated (phospho)-Akt (cat. no. sc-7985-R; anti-rabbit), Akt (cat. no. sc-8312; anti-rabbit), Axl (cat. no. sc-1096; anti-goat), phospho-signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 (STAT3; cat. no. sc-8059; anti-mouse), STAT3 (cat. no. sc-482; anti-rabbit), Tyro3 (cat. no. sc-1095; anti-goat), GAPDH (cat. no. sc-25778; anti-rabbit) and secondary antibodies (goat anti-rabbit IgG-HRP, cat. no. sc-2004; rabbit anti-goat IgG-HRP, cat. no. sc-2768; goat anti-mouse IgG-HRP; cat. no. sc-2005) were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc. (Dallas, TX, USA). Taxol (paclitaxel; cat. no. T7402) and NAC (cat no. A7250), were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA).

Cell culture

The SKOV3 cells were purchased from American Type Culture Collection and grown in RPMI-1640 (Gibco-BRL, Grand Island, N Y, USA), containing 10% FBS, 2 mM L-glutamine, 10 U/ml penicillin and 10 g/ml streptomycin, at 37°C in 5% CO2 in a humidified atmosphere.

Establishment of taxol-resistant cells

The SKOV3/TR taxol-resistant ovarian cancer cells, which are a variant of SKOV3, were established by stepwise exposure of the SKOV3 cells to increasing concentrations of taxol, ranging between 1.5 and 24 nM over 6 months.

Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)

The cells (3×105) were seeded into a 60 mm culture dish and grown overnight at 37°C. Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent and subjected to cDNA synthesis and RT-qPCR. Briefly, 2 μg total RNA was reverse transcribed into cDNA using SuperScript First-Strand Synthesis System (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Using specific primers, the obtained cDNAs were amplified using a TGradient Thermal Cycler (Biometra, Goettingen, Germany) and AccuPower PCR PremixTM (Bioneer, Daejeon, Korea), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The cycling conditions were as follows: 3 min denaturation at 94°C, 30 cycles of denaturation at 94°C for 30 sec, annealing at 55°C for 1 min and extension at 72°C for 30 sec, followed by a final cycle of 94°C for 30 sec and 60°C for 5 min. The specific primers were as follows: Axl, sense 5′-AACCTTCAACTCCTGCCTTCTCG-3′ and antisense 5′-CAGCTTCTCCTTCAGCTCTTCAC-3′; Tyro3, sense 5′-GTGTGTGGCTGACTTCGGAC-3′ and antisense 5′-CACGTCCTCCATACACTCCG-3′; Mer, sense 5′-CGACTAAGCAGCAGGATGGA-3′ and anti-sense 5′-GAGGGGGCATAATCTACCCA-3′; and GAPDH, sense 5′-GGAGCCAAAAGGGTCATCAT-3′ and antisense 5′-GTGATGGCATGGACTGTGGT-3′.

Western blot analysis

The cells were treated with N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) at 37°C for 24 h. The whole cell lysates were prepared from the cells using lysis buffer, containing 1% Triton X-100, 50 mM Tris (pH 8.0), 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 1 mM Na3VO4, and protease inhibitor cocktail. The protein concentrations were determined using a Bio-Rad protein assay kit II (cat. no. 500-0002; Bio-rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA). The proteins from the whole cell lysates (20 μg for Axl and Tyro3 detection or 40 μg for p-Akt, Akt, p-STAT3 and STAT3 detection) were separated using 12% SDS-PAGE, and electrotransferred onto nitrocellulose membranes. The membranes were blocked for 30 min at room temperature in Tris-buffered saline with 0.05% Tween-20 (TTBS), containing 5% non-fat dry milk, and incubated with TTBS containing primary antibody (1:1,000 dilution) for 4 h at room temperature. Following three 10 min washes in TTBS, the membranes were incubated with peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody (1:3,000 dilution) for 1 h. Following three additional 10 min washes with TTBS, the protein bands were visualized using an enhanced chemiluminescence detection system (Amersham™ ECL™ Prime Western Blotting Detection reagent; GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ, USA). Images of protein bands were captured using an LAS-3000 Image Analysis system (FujiFilm, Tokyo, Japan) and the relative quantities of each protein band were analyzed using Image Gauge 3.01 software (Fuji Photofilm; Fujiflm).

Colony-forming assay

The cells (1 to 2×103/dish) were seeded into 35 mm culture dishes and allowed to grow for between 7 days (for untreated cells) and 10 days (for experiments using siRNA or NAC) to form colonies. Colonies containing >50 cells were visualized by crystal violet staining (in 60% methanol; Junsei Chemical Co, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan). Images of the cells were captured using an LAS 3000 Image Analysis system (FujiFilm, Tokyo, Japan).

Cell viability assay

The viability of the cells was measured using a Cell Counting Kit-8 assay kit (Dojindo Laboratories, Kumamoto, Japan). The cells (1×103 cells/well) were seeded into 96-well plates and grown overnight at 37°C. The cells were subsequently incubated at 37°C for 24, 48 and 72 h to measure cell proliferation rate or treated with 0.001, 10, 100, and 1,000 nM taxol for 72 h to observe the acquisition of taxol resistance. Following treatment, 10 μl CCK-8 solution was added and the cells were incubated for 4 h. The absorbance at 450 nm was measured using a microplate reader (Model 680 microplate reader; Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.). The values are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation for triplicate wells, and normalized to that of the control group to determine the percentage viability.

Small interfering (si)RNA transfection

RNA interference silencing was performed to decrease the protein level of Tyro3. The SKOV3 or SKVO3/TR cells (1×106) were seeded into 100 mm culture dishes and grown overnight. The cells were then transfected with 50 nM siRNA against Tyro3 (cat. no. sc-36438; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), or control siRNA (cat. no. sc-37007; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.). For the cell proliferation and colony formation assays, the cells were harvested 24 h after transfection and were reseeded into 35 mm culture dishes and allowed to grow for 10 days. The cells were harvested 48 h after transfection and western blot analysis were performed to evaluate the protein levels of Tyro3.

ROS measurement

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis was performed to determine the intracellular levels of ROS. The cells (1×106) were seeded into 100 mm culture dishes and grown overnight. The cells were then stained with 5 mg/μl 2′, 7′-dichlorodihydrofluorescin diacetate for 30 min and subjected to flow cytometry using a Becton-Dickinson FACSCalibur (Becton-Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA) and analyzed using CellQuest software (Becton-Dickinson).

Statistical analysis

All data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation of triplicate samples or at least three independent experiments. Student’s t-test was used to determine statistical significance and P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Long-term exposure of ovarian cancer cells to taxol results in taxol resistance and a reduction in proliferation capacity

To characterize and investigate the underlying mechanisms of chemoresistance in ovarian cancer cells, taxol-resistant SKOV3/TR cells were established by stepwise long-term exposure of the SKOV3 cells to gradually increasing concentrations of taxol over 6 months. As shown in Fig. 1A, the SKOV3/TR cells were found to be significantly smaller in size and more rounded in shape compared with the parental SKOV3 cells, indicating that the SKOV3/TR cells exhibited different morphological features.

The acquisition of taxol resistance was evaluated by comparing the viability of the parental SKOV3 cells and SKOV3/TR cells following treatment with taxol at concentrations ranging between 0.01 and 1,000 μM. The cell viability was determined using a CCK-8 assay. Taxol treatment decreased the proliferation of the parental SKOV3 cells and the variant SKOV3/TR cells in dose-dependent manner. However, at concentrations of taxol >10 μM, the SKOV3 cells were significantly more sensitive to taxol treatment compared with the SKOV3/TR cells, suggesting the acquisition of taxol resistance (Fig. 1B).

The present study also found that proliferation rate of the SKOV3/TR cells was decreased compared with that of the parental SKOV3 cells (Fig. 1C), indicating the prolonged population doubling time (PDT) of the SKOV3/TR cells. The results of the colony-forming assay further demonstrated the prolonged PDT of the SKOV3/TR cells, since the SKOV3/TR cells formed significantly fewer colonies, compared with the SKOV3 cells (Fig. 1D). In addition, the sizes of the single colonies formed by the SKOV3/TR cells were smaller than that formed by the SKOV3 cells, indicating a smaller number of SKOV3/TR cells compared with the SKOV3 cells. Taken together, these results indicated that taxol resistance had developed in the SKOV3/TR, with a concomitant reduction in proliferative capacity.

Expression of Tyro3 RTK is upregulated in taxol-resistant cells

Since the TMA family of RTKs has been reported as being important on cell survival and proliferation (30), the present study examined whether the acquisition of taxol resistance affected the mRNA and protein expression levels of TAM RTKs. Tyro3, Axl, and Mer in the SKOV3 and SKOV3/TR cells. The RT-qPCR results revealed that the mRNA expression of Tyro3 in the SKOV3/TR cells was increased compared to that of the parental SKOV3 cells, while the mRNA levels of Axl and Mer were decreased (Fig. 2A). The upregulation of Tyro3 in the SKOV3/TR cells was further confirmed using western blot analysis. As shown in Fig. 2B, the protein levels of Tyro3 and Axl in the SKOV3/TR cells were higher and lower than those in the parental SKOV3 cells, respectively, consistent with the RT-qPCR results. Of note, these results suggested that, among the TAM RTKs, only the expression of Tyro3 was upregulated and responsible for the acquisition of taxol resistance in the SKOV3/TR cells.

Tyro3 specific siRNA transfection into taxol-resistant cells suppresses cell proliferation

The present study also examined the effect of overexpression of the Tyro3 protein on the proliferation of the SKOV3/TR cells. The SKOV3/TR cells were transfected with siTyro3 and their viability was determined. Western blot analysis demonstrated that transfection with siTyro3, but not control siRNA, into the SKOV3/TR cells significantly decreased the protein expression of Tyro3 (Fig. 2C). The effect of siTyro3 on cell proliferation was determined using a colony-forming assay. As shown in Fig. 2D, the SKOV3/TR cells transfected with siTyro3 formed fewer colonies compared with the same cells transfected with siCtrl (Fig. 2D). Taken together, these results demonstrated that upregulation of the expression of Tyro3 was responsible for the proliferation of SKOV3/TR cells, eventually causing the acquisition of taxol resistance.

Anti-oxidant NAC reduces the proliferation of taxol-resistant cells via downregulation of the expression of Tyro3 and inhibiting the phosphorylation of Akt

The production of ROS banticancer drugs is a well-known and essential mechanism to induce apoptosis, which in turn, abrogate the proliferation of cancer cells (31,32). Therefore, the present study assessed the involvement of ROS in the acquired taxol resistance of SKOV3/TR cells. FACS analysis was performed to measure ROS contents of SKOV3 and SKOV3/TR cells. As shown in Fig. 3A, the intracellular ROS content of SKOV3/TR cells was higher than that of the parental cells. To investigate the biological relevance of the increased level of intracellular ROS in the SKOV3/TR cells the effect of the NAC antioxidant reagent on the proliferation of SKOV3 and SKOV3/TR cells was examined.. The cells were treated with 5, 10 or 20 mM NAC for 24, following which the viable cell numbers were counted. The results demonstrated that the viability of the SKOV3/TR cells treated with 10 mM NAC was slightly reduced (21% reduction), while that of the SKOV3 cells was unaffected by this dose of NAC. However, at 20 mM NAC, the viability of each cell was reduced to 69% (SKOV3 cell) and 50% (SKOV3/TR cells), indicating that SKOV3/TR cells were more sensitive to NAC treatment compared with the parental cells (Fig. 3B). This profound antiproliferative effect of NAC on the SKOV3/TR cells was further verified using a colony-forming assay. As shown in Fig. 3C, the SKOV3/TR cells were found to form significantly smaller colony sizes and fewer colonies in the presence of 20 mM NAC compared with the parental cells. These results indicated that the elevated ROS in taxol-resistant SKOV3/TR cells was responsible for the proliferation of the cells.

As a reduction in the protein level of Tyro3 by Tyro-specific siRNA had antiproliferative effects in the SKOV3/TR cells, whether the antiproliferative effect of NAC also results from modulation of the expression of Tyro3 was examined. The cells were treated with 20 mM NAC and the protein levels of Tyro3 were determined using western blot analysis. As shown in Fig. 4A, the expression of Tyro3 was inhibited by NAC, confirming that the elevated level of intracellular ROSinduced the expression of Tyro3, which subsequently resulted in proliferation of the SKOV3/TR cells Western blot analysis further revealed the inhibitory effect of NAC on Akt phosphorylation, which transduces proliferative signal and was increased in the SKOV3/TR cells (Fig. 4B). However, NAC treatment had no effect on the phosphorylation or the induction of STAT3, a well-known positive regulator of cell proliferation (Fig. 4C). Taken together, these results indicate that upregulation of the expression of Tyro3 ant phosphorylation of Akt, but not the phosphorylation or induction of STAT3, were associated with the increased intracellular ROS contents in the SKOV3/TR cells, resulting in proliferation of the cells.

Discussion

Ovarian cancer is the first leading cause of death among gynecological cancers (33). The majority of patients with ovarian cancer are confronted with refractoriness against standard chemotherapy, a combination of platinum, containing cisplatin, carboplatin and paclitaxel, and develop further resistance to subsequent treatments (1). Therefore, the characterization and understanding of the molecular mechanisms associated with chemoresistance is valuable in overcoming cases of ovarian cancer relapse.

The present study developed SKOV3/TR taxol-resistant ovarian cancer cells, which were found to exhibit a reduction in size and slower growth rates compared with the parental SKOV cells. While the prolonged PDT of the taxol-resistant SKOV3/TR cells was consistent with a phenotype of therapy-induced senescence (TIS), their morphological characteristics of a reduced size and increased roundedness, compared with the parental cells, is opposite to those observed in TIS (34), since the morphology of senescent cells is enlarged and fattened. It may be beneficial to examine wether SKOV3/TR cells have other characteristics similar to TIS, including the activation of senescence-associated β-galactosidase, the development of senescence-associated heterochromatin foci or the secretion of excessive tumor-promoting cytokines, as TIS has inhibitory effects on proliferation and apoptosis, and senescent cancer cells require elimination for the successful treatment of cancer.

Resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including imatinib and nilotinib, has been correlated with the activation and overexpression of TAM RTKs in chronic myeloid leukemia cells (35,36). Consistent with the these reports, the present study demonstrated that the expression of Tyro3 RTK was elevated in the taxol-resistant SKOV3/TR cells, and knockdown of Tyro3 using specific siRNA sensitized the SKOV3/TR cells to taxol. However, the expression levels of the other TAM RTKs, Axl and Mer, were inversely downregulated in these cells, indicating that the increased expression of Tyro3 plays is important in the survival and proliferation of SKOV3/TR cells, while decreased levels of Axl and Mer may be responsible for their prolonged PDT.

One of the antiproliferative mechanisms of chemotherapeutic drugs is the induction of ROS, which leads to apoptosis of cancer cells (31). The role of ROS in developing chemoresistance is complex, as elevation and reduction are observed in the levels of ROS during the acquisition of drug resistance (37). The present study found that, in the SKOV3/TR cells, the intracellular ROS contents were increased and their proliferation was suppressed by NAC treatment. The correlation between the production of ROS and the development of taxol resistance in the SKOV3/TR cells was further confirmed by western blot analysis, which demonstrated the inhibitory effect of NAC on the expresion of Tyro3. Taken together, these results suggested that the levels of ROS were increased during the acquisition of taxol resistance in the SKOV3/TR cells, which upregulated the expression of Tyro3, and concomitantly led to the survival and proliferation of these cells via overexpression of the Tyro 3 protein.

The present study also demonstrated that NAC treatment reduced the level of phospho-Akt, which was increased in the SKOV3/TR cells, suggesting that Tyro3 signaled through the Akt pathway to promote cell proliferation. This result was consistent with that of a previous study, which reported that phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Akt pathway is linked to the activation of Tyro3 (38). However, NAC did not affect the phosphorylation or protein levels of STAT3, indicating that the increased phosphorylation and expression of STAT3 in the SKOV3/TR cells may not be associated with the elevated level of intracellular ROS in the cells.

In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that long-term exposure of human ovarian cancer SKOV3 cells resulted in the formation of taxol-resistant SKOV3/TR cells via the induction of intracellular ROS, subsequent upregulation in the expression of Tyro3 and the activation of Akt, which promoted the survival and proliferation of the resistant cells. Thus, modulation of the expression of Tyro3 and/or its role in the downstream signaling pathway may offer a potential target in overcoming taxol resistance.

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (grant. no. 2006-2005303).

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Lee, C."Overexpression of Tyro3 receptor tyrosine kinase leads to the acquisition of taxol resistance in ovarian cancer cells". Molecular Medicine Reports 12.1 (2015): 1485-1492.
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Lee, C."Overexpression of Tyro3 receptor tyrosine kinase leads to the acquisition of taxol resistance in ovarian cancer cells". Molecular Medicine Reports 12, no. 1 (2015): 1485-1492. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2015.3542