PIM1 knockdown inhibits cell proliferation and invasion of mesothelioma cells

  • Authors:
    • Amany Sayed Mawas
    • Vishwa Jeet Amatya
    • Rui Suzuki
    • Kei Kushitani
    • Mouchira M. Mohi El-Din
    • Yukio Takeshima
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  • Published online on: January 26, 2017     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.3863
  • Pages: 1029-1034
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Abstract

Malignant mesothelioma is a major asbestos-related cancer with prolonged time lapse from the first exposure of asbestos to the development of mesothelioma. Most of mesothelioma patients show very poor prognosis, thus, an urgent improvement of its treatment is required by development of novel therapeutic strategies. RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool in post-genomic research and cancer therapy through inhibition of gene expression. In the present study, we analyzed the function of PIM1 on mesothelioma cell lines with its knockdown by siRNA transfection. Here, we report that the downregulation of PIM1 led to suppression of cell proliferation by cell cycle arrest at G1 phase and suppression of cell invasion and migration. Considering the mesothelioma as rapidly growing invasive cancer, downregulation of PIM1 may have a potential role for therapeutic management of malignant mesothelioma.

Introduction

Malignant mesothelioma, highly aggressive fatal cancer, is associated with occupational and environmental asbestos exposure (1). Its incidence is increasing in Japan, Western European countries and is expected to increase in other developing countries (2). The molecular mechanism of its carcinogenesis is not yet fully understood. Previously, we studied microRNA expression profile of mesothelioma cell lines and found that significant numbers of microRNA were differentially expressed in malignant mesothelioma. In addition to various upregulated microRNAs in mesothelioma cell lines, we found no expression of many microRNAs, namely miR-1 and miR-214. By microRNA mimic transfection study, we reported the role of miR-1, and miR-214 in proliferation and invasion of mesothelioma cells. Many genes are co-targeted by miR-1 and miR-214. Out of these genes, we paid attention to PIM1 gene, a proto-oncogene, for its high expression in mesothelioma cell lines (3). Provirus integration site for Moloney murine leukemia virus 1 (PIM1) is a serine/threonine kinase that acts as protooncogene to mediate cell survival. PIM1 has been reported to be upregulated in various human cancers such as prostate (4), pancreatic (5), gastric cancer (6) and glioblastoma (7). The overexpression of PIM1 was well correlated to carcinogenesis by promoting tumor cell proliferation and inhibiting apoptosis (8). In the present study, we analyzed the proliferation, the cell cycle regulation, invasion and the migration of mesothelioma cells by PIM1 downregulation with siRNA transfection.

Materials and methods

Mesothelioma cell lines

Mesothelioma cell lines, CRL-5915 (purchased from the American Type Culture Collection, ATCC; Manassas, VA, USA) and ACC-MESO-1 (RIKEN BioResearch Center, Tsukuba, Japan) (9) were maintained in Roswell Park Memorial Institute 1640 medium with GlutaMAX (RPMI-1640) with 1% kanamycin, 1% fungizone and 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; all purchased from Gibco/Life Technologies, Tokyo, Japan).

Transient transfections of mesothelioma cells with small interfering RNA (siRNA) after siRNA optimization

To optimize IC50 (half-maximum inhibitory concentration) of siRNA, we used different concentrations of siRNA for both cell lines which not causing cytotoxic effect on mesothelioma cell lines (20, 30 and 40 nM). The cells were cultured 3×103 with the different concentrations of siRNA in 96-well plate for three days then adding PrestoBlue reagent (PrestoBlue™ Cell Viability reagent; Invitrogen) every day and cell viability was measured by GloMax® Explorer. All transfection studies were carried out in triplicate with 20 nM of PIM1-siRNA or negative control-siRNA with 5 μl of Lipofectamine RNAiMax reagent in Opti-MEM media (Gibco) in 6-well plates for 24 h before harvesting the treated cells. Details of PIM1-siRNA were (siGENOME SMARTpool PIM-siRNA, GAUAUGGUGUGUGGAGAUA, CAGAUAGGCCAACCUUCGA, GUGGAGAAGGACCGGAUUU, AGAUAUUCCUUUCGAGCAU) and negative control-siRNA (UAGCGACUAAACACAUCAA) (Dharmacon, Lafayette, CO, USA). After transfection with siRNAs, the cells were utilized for various cell based assays, cell proliferation, cell cycle, invasion and migration assays.

RNA isolation

Total RNA was extracted from the mesothelioma cell lines using CellAmp™ Direct RNA Prep kit (Takara/Clontech Laboratories) according to the manufacturer's recommended protocol. The extracted RNA was quantified with a NanoVue Plus spectrophotometer (GE Healthcare BioSciences, Tokyo, Japan) and Qubit 2.0 (Life Technologies) using fluorometer-based RNA assay kit.

Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

A total of 200 ng of total RNA was reverse-transcribed and amplified using One Step SYBR® PrimeScript® RT-PCR kit (Takara Bio) with the Mx3000P real-time PCR (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) system. Relative expression was calculated by the comparative CT (ΔΔCT) method.

Western blot analysis

Cells (5×105) were seeded and transfected in 6-well plates for 3 days and cell lysates were obtained from siRNA transfected cells using M-PER (mammalian protein extraction reagent) with Halt Protease Inhibitor Cocktail and Phosphatase inhibitor (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). Total protein (20–30 μg) was electrophoresed on TGX acrylamide Gel (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan) at 75 V for 90 min and transferred onto a polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane using Mini Blot Module (Thermo Fisher Scientific) at 20 V for 60 min. The protein-transferred membrane was processed with primary antibodies, anti-PIM1 antibody (1:2000, rabbit monoclonal, ab75776; Abcam) and anti-GAPDH antibody (1:1000, rabbit polyclonal sc-25778; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Dallas, TX, USA) and biotin labeled secondary antibody (HRP-linked goat anti-rabbit IgG, 7074S; Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA) and all were diluted in Can Get Signal buffer (Toyobo Life Science, Osaka, Japan). The membrane was washed and stained with ImmunoCruz™ Western Blotting Luminol reagent (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and images were captured using C-DiGit Blot scanner (LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, USA) with Image Studio software.

Cell proliferation assay

siRNA transfected cells (3×103) were incubated in RPMI-1640 media with 1% FBS in 96-well plates in triplicate for 3 days. Total number of viable cells (based on quantitation of ATP present, which indicate the presence of metabolically active cells) were determined every 24, 48 and 72 h by CellTiter-Glo 2.0 reagent (Promega) according to the manufacturer's recommended protocol using GloMax Explorer.

Cell cycle phase analysis

siRNA transfected cells (5×104) were incubated in RPMI-1640 media with 1% FBS in collagen-coated 12-well plates in triplicate for 48 and 72 h. Cells were harvested after trypsinization and slowly fixed in 70% ethanol for more than 1 h. Ethanol fixed cells were washed and stained with Guava Cell Cycle reagent and data were collected with flow cytometer using Cytosoft cell cycle module software (Guava Technologies, Hayward, CA, USA). Guava EasyCyte Mini flow cytometric raw data were analyzed using FCS Express 5 Pro software (De Novo Software, Glendale, CA, USA).

Cell invasion assay

siRNA transfected cells (1×104) for ACC-MESO-1 and 1.5×105 siRNA transfected cells for CRL-5915 were incubated in BD FluoroBlok culture inserts with 8-μm pores (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) coated with matrix Matrigel (Life Technologies) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Invaded cells were stained with Hoechst 33342 (Life Technologies) and imaged area of insert membrane was captured with fluorescent microscope (IX81, inverted microscope with DP80 CCD camera; Olympus, Tokyo, Japan). The total numbers of invading cells were calculated by analyzing fluorescent images with CellProfiler cell imaging software (10).

Cell migration assay

Cell migration was analyzed using a wound/scratch assay. siRNA transfected cells were incubated in RPMI-1640 media with 10% FBS in collagen-coated 24-well plates overnight. The wound was created in cell monolayer by scratching the cells with 1 ml micropipette tips and floating cells were removed by washing with fresh media. Real-time microscopic pictures were taken at 0, 12 and 24 h post scratching by incubating the cells in stage-top incubator on inverted microscope with automatic picture acquisition at given time interval (Olympus IX81 with cellSens software). The area of the wound gap that was not covered by cell migration (percentage) was determined using TScrach software (11).

Statistical analysis

All statistical analysis was performed with GraphPad QuickCalcs t-test calculator (https://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/).

Results

Validation of PIM1 knockdown by siRNA transfection

After optimization of IC50 of siRNA, we found that all the different concentration of PIM1-siRNA and negative control-siRNA have less cytotoxic effect on both cell lines. With 20 nM of PIM1-siRNA, we found that the downregulation of PIM1 mRNA was from 50 to 70% (Fig. 1A). Significant down-regulation of PIM1 was found at protein level by western blot analysis (Fig. 1B).

PIM1 knockdown reduces cell proliferation with G1 arrest

Mesothelioma cell lines transfected with PIM1-siRNA showed ~20% reduced proliferation rate compared to that with negative control-siRNA in a time-dependent manner (Fig. 2 and Table I). In addition, we also noted difference in the proliferation rates between cell lines.

Table I

Cell proliferation analysis.

Table I

Cell proliferation analysis.

0 h24 h48 h72 h
CRL-5915
 PIM1 siRNA1.04±0.101.35±0.102.27±0.103.17±0.10
 Negative control siRNA1.25±0.031.89±0.103.13±0.144.59±0.28
ACC-MESO-1
 PIM1 siRNA1.81±0.112.14±0.172.88±0.113.29±0.33
 Negative control siRNA2.02±0.122.44±0.103.47±0.114.70±0.03

[i] The number of proliferating cells every 24 h is significantly less in PIM1 siRNA transfected cells compared to the negative control siRNA transfected cells showing inhibition of proliferation rate (see Fig. 2).

With siRNA transfection of mesothelioma cells for 2 days, the proportion of G1 phase of cell cycle in ACC-MESO-1 and CRL-5915 with PIM1 transfection were 60.5 and 65.8% and that with negative control was 43.3 and 50% (Fig. 3 and Table II). With siRNA transfection of mesothelioma cells for 3 days, the proportion of G1 phase of cell cycle in ACC-MESO-1 and CRL-5915 with PIM1 transfection were 84 and 78.6% and that with negative control was 74.5 and 74.1%.

Table II

Cell cycle phase analysis.

Table II

Cell cycle phase analysis.

G1SG2P-value
ACC-MESO-1
 PIM1 siRNA60.5±1.020.6±0.620.6±1.00.0001
 Negative control siRNA43.3±1.232.8±5.432.8±5.0
CRL-5915
 PIM1 siRNA65.8±2.719.5±2.614.7±1.50.0009
 Negative control siRNA50.0±1.425.2±0.924.7±1.6

[i] The percentage of G1 phase of cell cycle in PIM1 siRNA transfected cells is significantly higher than that in negative control siRNA transfected cells in both ACC-MESO-1 and CRL-5915 cell lines (see Fig. 3).

These results suggest that PIM1-siRNA transfected cells showed ~10% increase in G1 phase compared to negative control-siRNA. In addition, the ratio of G1 arrest was higher on day 2 than day 3 in both cell lines.

PIM1 knockdown reduces cell invasion and cell migration

We found that the ability of ACC-MESO-1 for invasion is faster than CRL-5915 as ACC-MESO-1 invade via the Matrigel layer in 2 days while CRL-5915 need 3–4 days for its invasion, thus, we used reduced number of cells and increased thickness of the Matrigel layer in case of ACC-MESO-1.

Mesothelioma cells with PIM1 transfection showed ~30% less invasiveness compared to that with negative control-siRNA transfection (Fig. 4 and Table III). Similarly, the mesothelioma cells with PIM1 transfection showed less migration than that with negative control-siRNA (Fig. 5).

Table III

Invasion assay.

Table III

Invasion assay.

No. of invading cells/one quadrant of insert
MeanSDP-value
CRL-5915
 PIM1 siRNA17163130.0168
 Negative control siRNA2439686
ACC-MESO-1
 PIM1 siRNA10742300.0005
 Negative control siRNA1684309

[i] The difference in the ability of cells to invade through the Matrigel indicating that invading number of PIM1 siRNA transfected cells is less than negative control siRNA in ACC-MESO-1 and CRL-5915 cell lines (see Fig. 4).

Discussion

The conventional management of mesothelioma by either surgery or radiotherapy and chemotherapy are not very effective, and even the recent clinical trials of trimodal therapy with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by extra-pleural pneumonectomy and radiotherapy have not shown significant advantage over conventional therapy (1214). In population- based studies, survival times ranged from 5 months to 13.2 months (15). Although surgery is an option for patients with early-stage mesothelioma, most patients present with advanced locally invasive disease, not amenable to surgical resection. For these patients, the current best regime is palliative chemotherapy with cisplatin and pemetrexed. However, this regimen has been shown a modest survival benefit (16). Therefore, the novel strategies for management of mesothelioma patients have to be developed urgently in the coming years. There are various trials ongoing for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma. A recent study has previously reported the high expression and prognostic value of CD26 in malignant mesothelioma (17,18), humanized anti-CD26 monoclonal antibody, YS-110, having inhibitory effect on malignant mesothelioma cell growth in vitro and in vivo experiments (19), and one of the promising new developments for the antibody-based treatment of mesothelioma (19,20). Other trials such as pembrolizumab against programmed death 1 (PD-1) antibody, PF-03446962 against activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK-1), defactinib against focal adhesion kinase (FAK) are ongoing (2123).

RNA interference (RNAi) has broad potential as a therapeutic role to reversibly silence a gene. Recently delivery of siRNA to the targeted tissue has been improved to achieve the clinical potential of RNAi (24,25). We have previously reported the high expression of nuclear PIM1 in mesothelioma by immunohistochemical staining and mesothelioma cell lines by western blot analysis (3). Upregulation of PIM1 has been reported in prostate (4), pancreatic (5) and non-small cell lung cancers (6) with good prognostic significance. However, its high expression in stomach (6), bladder (26), esophagus (26) and head and neck carcinoma (27) was correlated with poor prognosis. Therefore, PIM1 may have different functions in tumorigenesis depending on the tumor type and underlying signaling pathways. We investigated the functional role of PIM1 in mesothelioma cell lines by siRNA-based knockdown and confirmed its potential role on cell survival, migration and invasion. PIM1 overexpression has been shown to play a major role in the inhibition of apoptosis and the regulation of cell proliferation (28) as well as in promotion of cell survival through phosphorylation of other substrate proteins as a proapoptotic factor FOXO3a (8). The level of PIM1 has been shown to increase during the progression of the cell cycle from G1 and remain high throughout G1/S and G2 phases, thus, PIM1 protein level changes during cell cycle stages appear to be related to the onset of DNA synthesis and commitment to proliferation (29) and high level of PIM1 activate cell cycle inhibitors as p21 and p27 thereby promote cell cycle phases (30). We found that the downregulation of PIM1 caused decrease in proliferation rates of mesothelioma cells and cell cycle analysis have shown the accumulation of mesothelioma cells in G1 phase. We also analyzed the potential role of PIM1 to influence the invasion of mesothelioma cell lines by Transwell invasion assay and wound assay and found significant decrease in invasion through Matrigel and decrease in migration of mesothelioma cells. Based on our preliminary results, PIM1 expression in human mesothelioma tissue may be useful in differential diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma from the reactive mesothelial hyperplasia (data not shown).

Increasing evidence has shown that PIM1 would be a novel and essential drug target in numerous types of cancer (31), in particular prostate cancer (4). Novel molecules inhibiting PIM kinases have been evaluated in preclinical studies, demonstrating to be effective and with a favorable toxicity profile. Given the promising results, some of these compounds are currently under investigation in clinical trials (32). We analyzed in this study the possibility for application of therapeutic potential in mesothelioma.

In conclusion, the downregulation of PIM1 in mesothelioma cell have shown to reduce the proliferation, invasion and migration of mesothelioma cells. Considering that mesothelioma is a rapidly growing invasive cancer, downregulation of PIM1 has potential for therapeutic management of mesothelioma. However, further mechanism of regulation of its downstream genes is needed to understand how its regulation modulates the mesothelioma cells.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Ms. Naomi Fukuhara for her administrative assistance. Part of the present study was carried out at the Analysis Center of Life Science, Hiroshima University.

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