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Predictive value of microparticle-associated tissue factor activity for permeability glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance in cancer

  • Authors:
    • Antonio Angelini
    • Sebastiano Miscia
    • Maria Antonietta Centurione
    • Roberta Di Pietro
    • Lucia Centurione
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  • Published online on: September 8, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.5105
  • Pages: 3273-3277
  • Copyright: © Angelini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Multidrug resistance (MDR) protein 1, which is also known as permeability glycoprotein (Pgp), and tissue factor (TF) are recurrently overexpressed on the surface of cancer cells, likely in response to stimuli such as chemotherapy. Microparticles (MPs) released from cancer cells into the bloodstream express tumour markers on their surface that may be useful as predictive biomarkers for evaluating disease progression. The present study measured the level of TF/factor VII (FVII)‑dependent coagulation of MPs isolated from the plasma of cancer patients with various tumours, who were undergoing chemotherapy. Furthermore, Pgp expression on the surface of MPs was evaluated by immunohistochemistry. A total of 50 cancer patients, as well as 10 healthy volunteers, were enrolled in the present study. MP‑associated TF/FVII‑dependent coagulation pathways were evaluated as the effect of an anti‑FVII antibody on the time to thrombin generation, as compared with controls treated with saline. The significantly lengthened times of coagulation [obtained in 20/50 samples (36.5 ± 16%) after treatment with anti‑FVIIa when compared with controls] suggest the presence of TF activity is associated with circulating MPs. Furthermore, the 20 MP/TF‑positive samples were associated with Pgp overexpression on their surface. Conversely, in the remaining samples (n=30), treatment with the anti‑FVIIa antibody did not significantly lengthen the time to clotting (<10%), and Pgp overexpression was not detected. In addition, in the control samples from healthy individuals, Pgp expression at the plasma membrane and clotting in the presence of the anti‑FVII antibody were not observed, indicating the absence of MPs. The present study demonstrated that MPs in the blood of cancer patients promoted fibrin generation via TF/FVII‑dependent pathways, thus suggesting that the evaluation of MP‑TF activity may have a predictive value for Pgp‑mediated MDR in various cancer types. Although further studies are required, the measurement of plasma MP‑associated TF activity as a predictive biomarker may provide novel therapeutic perspectives to improve the prognosis and effectiveness of anti‑cancer drugs in patients who are at a high-risk of Pgp-mediated MDR.

Introduction

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a significant obstacle to successful cancer chemotherapy in numerous types of human tumour (1,2). MDR occurs predominantly as a result of overexpression of the transmembrane permeability glycoprotein (Pgp) encoded by the MDR protein 1 gene (3). Pgp is a member of the ATP-binding cassette transporter family that, in resistant cancer cells, has a role as an efflux pump for various structurally and functionally unrelated chemotherapeutic drugs, including the anthracyclines, vinca alkaloids and taxans, thereby reducing their concentration in the cell cytoplasm and limiting the effectiveness of cancer chemotherapy (47).

Venous thromboembolic events represent an important complication in patients with cancer due to haemostatic system activation caused by aggressive chemotherapy (811). Furthermore, D-dimer levels, which are used as coagulation markers in cancer patients, have been observed to be higher in advanced disease and decreased in patients in post-treatment remission, which suggests that pro-coagulant activity in cancer patients could predict response or disease progression (12). The expression of tissue factor (TF), which is a transmembrane glycoprotein and the major cellular initiator of blood coagulation in vivo, on the surface of neoplastic cells varies across different cell types (1315). TF binds plasma factor II/VIIa (FII/FVIIa) to form a bimolecular complex that actives factor X and factor IX, leading to the generation of fibrin (16,17). Hypercoagulability has been associated with chemoresistance, and TF may have a role in this association (16,17). In addition, previous studies reported that Pgp and TF tend to be coexpressed in numerous types of neoplastic cell, potentially in response to common stimuli such as chemotherapy (18). Therefore, evaluation of TF-dependent coagulation activity associated with the presence of TF on the surface of tumour cells may act as a predictive biomarker for the indirect identification of Pgp-mediated MDR in cancer patients.

In vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated that malignant cells release a large number of microscopic cell membrane-derived vesicles, which are 0.1–1.0 µm in diameter and called microparticles (MPs), in response to chemotherapy or stimulation/induction of apoptosis (19). MPs carry various surface proteins that are characteristic of their parental cells (20). In addition, clinical studies have reported that TF is exposed on the surface of circulating MPs from patients with cancer, and that high levels of MP-associated TF activity in the plasma of cancer patients predicted an increased risk for thrombosis and poor prognosis (2125). The evaluation of circulating MP-associated TF activity in cancer patients during chemotherapy could be used to predict thrombosis and the development of MDR. Therefore, this analysis, in association with tumour markers or biopsies, could have a prognostic value for cancer patients.

The present study aimed to investigate whether the MPs released by the plasma membrane of cancer cells during chemotherapy showed high levels of Pgp and TF coexpression on their surface, and whether a rise in circulating MPs coexpressing Pgp and TF may be indirectly predictive for the development of MDR and thromboembolic complications. MPs were isolated from the blood of 50 patients with a variety of malignant tumours who were receiving cancer chemotherapy, and were analysed for TF activity and Pgp overexpression. The results of this analysis were compared with those obtained for 10 healthy volunteers matched for age and gender, who were considered as negative controls.

Materials and methods

Reagents and antibodies

The murine anti-human cluster of differentiation 243 (CD243) monoclonal antibody (clone, UIC2; IgG2a; dilution, 1:20; catalog no., MCA2671A488) that recognizes an extracellular conformational epitope of Pgp was purchased from Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (Hemel Hempstead, UK). The rabbit anti-human FVII polyclonal antibody (clone CLBVII-I; IgG1; dilution, 1:100; catalog no., MW1899) was obtained from Sanquin (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

Collection of blood samples

The patients used in the present study were enrolled at the Department of Oncology, S.S. Annunziata Hospital (affiliated to ‘G. d'Annunzio’ University of Chieti-Pescara; Chieti, Italy). Between February 2012 and November 2014, ~4 ml peripheral blood was collected from 50 cancer patients with solid tumours (including pancreatic, breast, gastrointesyinal and lung cancer) through venepuncture with a BD Vacutainer® blood collecting system (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA), and placed into 4.5 ml polypropylene tubes containing 3.8% sodium citrate. Whole blood samples were processed immediately at room temperature to inhibit cell activation. Blood samples were centrifuged at 3,000 × g for 20 min at room temperature in a swing-out rotor without break to isolate erythrocytes and platelets. Platelet-poor plasma (PPP) was then gently removed and coagulation tests were performed immediately. The remaining plasma was distributed in 250 µl aliquots, snap frozen in liquid nitrogen and finally stored at −80°C until use. Plasma samples from 10 healthy volunteers (5 female and 5 male; mean age, 43 years; range, 23–46 years) were similarly processed and assessed as negative controls. Informed consent was obtained from all patients, who received detailed information regarding the study, adhering to the Declaration of Helsinki.

Isolation of MPs from plasma samples

To isolate MPs, PPP obtained from whole blood was thawed at 37°C, transferred to microtubes (1.5 ml) and further centrifuged at 5,000 × g at room temperature for 10 min to remove residual platelets. Subsequently, PPP was centrifuged at 19,800 × g for 15 min at 20°C with a fixed-angle, 45° rotor (Centrifuge 5417R; Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) to obtain a fraction enriched in cell-derived MPs. Subsequently, MP-free plasma was removed from each tube and the resultant MP pellets (25–30 µl) were washed twice in Ca2+/Mg2+-free phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), suspended in 0.3 ml Ca2+/Mg2+-free PBS and used immediately. Ca2+-free PBS solution was used to prevent fibrin generation in the solutions. Equal volumes (250 µl) of plasma taken from healthy volunteers were run in parallel as controls.

Pro-coagulant activity of MP-associated TF

The pro-coagulant activity of TF associated with MPs was evaluated in the presence and absence of the anti-FVIIa antibody. The analysis was performed using a spectrophotometer microplate reader (Spectra Max 190; Molecular Devices, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) equipped to analyse kinetic data in a 96-well format. The instrument consists of an incubator cabinet with a photometer. Data acquisition and analysis were performed with SoftMax® Pro 4.0 software (Molecular Devices, LLC). Fresh PPP (90 µl) was pipetted into four wells of a 96-well plate. Two wells were incubated with 3 µl anti-human FVIIa antibody (1 mg/ml) to inhibit TF-mediated coagulation, while the remaining two wells were incubated with 3 µl physiological saline solution. The 96-well plate was transferred into the automated microplate reader and incubated at 37°C for 5 min. Clotting was initiated by simultaneous addition to each well of 15 µl of 0.1 M CaCl2 reagent pre-warmed at 37°C. Following 5 sec of agitation, fibrin formation was monitored by measuring the optical density (OD) of the plasma at 1 min intervals for 30 min at 405 nm. Equal volumes of plasma taken from 10 healthy volunteers were run in parallel as controls. A plot of OD versus time was generated, and the half-maximal value (1/2 Vmax) of the OD change during clotting was determined and expressed as the anti-FVII antibody-induced lengthening of the clotting time, as compared with the saline samples. The following formula was used: Lengthening time (%) = (anti-FVII clotting time - saline clotting time/saline clotting time) × 100. The clotting time obtained for the same re-calcified plasma (20 mmol/l CaCl2) in the presence and absence of excess (1 mg/ml) rabbit anti-human FVII IgG polyclonal antibody was compared to establish the TF-FVII-dependence of the fibrin generation. The lag time of fibrin generation was defined as the time interval required for the solution turbidity to reach the 1/2 Vmax.

Immunohistochemical analysis of Pgp expression on MPs

For the evaluation of Pgp expression, MP pellets were prepared from 50 cancer patients. Briefly, plasma containing MPs was centrifuged at 4,200 × g at room temperature for 10 min and the MP pellet was cytocentrifuged at 400 × g at room temperature for 10 min (Shandon CytoSpin 2 Cytocentrifuge; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA). To assess MP samples for CD243 expression, the Histostain®-Plus 112 kit was used (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), according to the manufacturer's protocol. Briefly, slides were fixed for 10 min at room temperature with 3% paraformaldehyde in Dulbecco's 1X PBS (pH 7.6). To prevent non-specific binding, slides were incubated for 10 min with serum blocking solution, followed by incubation for 45 min at room temperature with murine anti-CD243 monoclonal antibody (1:20). Following washing three times with 1X PBS, slides were incubated for 10 min with the enzyme conjugate provided in the kit. Following further washing with PBS, samples were incubated for 10 min with 3,3′-diaminobenzidine, washed with distilled water and coverslipped with mounting medium. Subsequently, the slides were observed under a Zeiss Axioscope light microscope (Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany) equipped with a CoolSNAP camera and the MetaMorph Image Analysis system (Universal Imaging Corp, Downingtown, PA, USA).

Statistical analysis

Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation and were analysed for statistical significance using the Student's t-test, with Excel 2011 (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Clotting time assay or fibrin generation assay

The present study analysed 50 PPP samples from cancer patients, of which 20 samples showed high levels of MP-associated TF activity, as demonstrated by the clotting time measurements. As is shown in a representative curve obtained using plasma from one healthy subject (Fig. 1A), no clotting was observed in the presence or absence of an anti-FVIIa antibody when plasma was re-calcified to induce coagulation for at least 1,800 sec. In 30 of the 50 plasma samples, the addition of anti-FVIIa antibody did not significantly prolong the clotting time; the percentage of lengthening between the two curves was <10% (Fig. 1B). However, in 20 of the 50 plasma samples, the time interval for the solution turbidity to reach the 1/2 Vmax was significantly different between samples treated with saline and anti-FVIIa antibody (P=0.01). Fig. 1C shows a representative microplate assay curve obtained using plasma incubated with or without anti-FVII antibody, and demonstrates a time delay of thrombin generation (427.1 vs. 609.9 sec, respectively). Therefore, the addition of anti-FVIIa antibody induced a significant lengthening of clotting time (~43%; P=0.02), indicating the presence of a high amount of MP-associated TF within the plasma sample. Generally, the treatment of 20 TF-positive samples with an anti-FVIIa antibody induced a significant lengthening of clotting time compared with the controls treated with saline alone (700±280 and 950±350 sec, respectively; P=0.01; Fig. 2).

Pgp expression on the surface of MPs

In order to determine whether TF and Pgp were coexpressed on the surface of MPs, Pgp expression on MPs isolated from plasma samples with a significant lengthening of clotting time following inhibition of TF activity with an anti-FVIIa antibody was evaluated. MPs obtained from cancer patients that showed TF/FVII-dependent coagulation were compared with MPs from plasma samples with <10% mean lengthening and MPs from plasma samples of healthy controls. As is shown in Fig. 3A, MPs were rarely detected in the plasma samples of healthy controls, and those that were detected were negative for Pgp expression. Similarly, very low or absent expression of Pgp was detected for the MPs isolated from plasma samples with no significant TF activity (lengthening, <10%) (Fig. 3B). Conversely, a high number of MPs were strongly labelled for Pgp expression in plasma samples from cancer patients showing TF positivity (Fig. 3C).

Discussion

The present study demonstrated that Pgp and TF glycoproteins were associated with circulating tumour cell-derived MPs in blood collected from cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. TF expression was identified on the surface of MPs by evaluating the TF-mediated pro-coagulant activity of plasma samples from 50 cancer patients by means of an anti-FVIIa antibody to distinguish fibrin generation via TF-FVII-dependent pathways. It was demonstrated that 20 of the 50 cancer patients (>30%) had high levels of circulating MP-associated TF activity. Notably, treatment of these 20 plasma samples with an anti-FVIIa antibody significantly prolonged (P<0.05) the clotting time of these patients by up to 36.5±16%, as compared with the clotting time of the same samples treated with saline alone. These results suggested that tumour cell-derived MPs contribute to the activation of coagulation in a TF-dependent manner, and indicated the specificity of this assay to inhibit the TF-dependent pro-coagulant activity via the FVII pathway. Conversely, in the remaining plasma samples that were negative for MP-associated TF (n=30), the clot reaction curves of plasma samples treated with anti-FVIIa antibody were similar to those obtained following treatment of plasma samples with saline alone. These results suggested that the clotting times were unaffected by anti-FVIIa treatment, and that fibrin generation was independent of this factor. Therefore, in these samples, anti-FVII treatment did not prolong the fibrin generation. Furthermore, the total absence of coagulation in the human plasma obtained from healthy individuals incubated with anti-FVIIa antibody suggested the absence of MPs or the presence of very low levels of MPs in the blood of healthy subjects, as compared with the plasma samples of cancer patients.

These results were consistent with the analysis of the expression of Pgp on the surface of cell-derived MPs. Notably, high levels of Pgp-positive MPs were observed in the 20 samples that showed high TF pro-coagulant activity. Conversely, in the TF-negative samples, the MPs were lower in number and showed a reduced fibrin-generating capacity, as compared with the TF- and Pgp-positive MPs. No coagulant activity and Pgp expression was observed in plasma samples from healthy individuals. These results indicated that the TF activity was significantly increased on the surface of circulating MPs derived from the blood of 20 cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and that this was closely associated with Pgp overexpression. This is consistent with previous studies that demonstrated that high levels of MP-associated TF activity were associated with various types of tumour, including breast cancer and pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and with a poor response to chemotherapy (2631). Therefore, the analysis of MP-associated TF activity could be used as a potential positive predictor for Pgp-mediated MDR, thereby generating novel avenues for assessing MDR in cancer patients during chemotherapy.

The present study demonstrated that, in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, the measurement of MP-associated TF pro-coagulant activity using a rapid and simple turbidimetric assay may represent an important strategy for the identification of patients with a potential Pgp-mediated MDR phenotype. Such a strategy may permit the collation of useful information on MDR progression, and allow early intervention with novel combinations of anticancer drugs, including those that are structurally modified analogues of MDR-associated agents so as to avoid unnecessary therapy, or Pgp inhibitors to inhibit or modulate MDR development (32,33). Therefore, TF-positive MPs may be considered useful biomarkers for the prediction of therapeutic response and for the development of personalized therapeutic strategies for cancer patients.

In addition, the analysis of MP-associated TF activity could be used alongside other markers of coagulation, including prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time, to provide additional information on the pro-coagulant potential of MPs released from cancer cells and to eventually develop an effective and safe anti-thrombotic therapy.

In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that there was an association between TF-activity and Pgp expression on the surface of circulating MPs in cancer patients, which suggested that the levels of TF-positive MPs may be a useful predictive biomarker for the identification of patients with an increased risk for MDR, and to monitor the response to targeted therapeutics. However, these observations require verification in a larger study population, in which cut-off values for TF-positive MP activity may be elucidated. The results of the present study provided a rationale for assessing alternative therapeutic strategies for cancer patients with high plasma levels of TF-positive MPs, in order to overcome Pgp-mediated MDR.

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