Growth inhibition and chemo‑radiosensitization of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by survivin‑shRNA lentivirus transfection
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Abstract
Introduction
Esophageal cancer (EsC) is one of the least studied and deadliest cancers worldwide because of its extremely aggressive nature and poor survival rate (1). Due to its aggressive nature, it ranks sixth in all cancer-associated mortalities in China and other developing countries in 2014 (2). While many other types of cancer are expected to decrease in incidence over the next 10 years by 2025, the prevalence of esophageal cancer is expected to increase by 140% (2). There are two primary histological types of esophageal cancer. Adenocarcinoma is prevalent in the United States of America and certain other developed countries, while squamous cell carcinoma is the most common esophageal cancer worldwide, including Japan, China and other developing counties (1,3). Treatment primarily includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, depending on the stages of the disease. Despite intensive investigation, patient prognosis has not significantly improved over the past 20 years, with a 5-year survival rate of <20% (1,4). Combined preoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy (chemo-radiotherapy) has demonstrated certain benefits (5–8). However, a significant proportion of patients respond poorly to chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy (9), which have severe side effects. Furthermore, tumor resistance and relapse occur despite chemo-radiotherapy (10,11). Understanding the molecular mechanisms conveying tumor resistance is important.
Survivin is a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family (12). Members of IAPs bind directly with caspase 3, 7 and 9, resulting in function inhibition and/or ubiquitination, and consequent degradation of these caspase proteins (13,14). Survivin was revealed to be overexpressed in multiple types of cancer, but was absent or expressed at low levels in normal terminally-differentiated tissues (15). High levels of survivin expression have been detected in cisplatin-resistant thyroid cancer cell lines, flutamide-resistant prostate cancer cells and radiation-resistant pancreatic cancer cells (16).
Survivin is also expressed in esophageal carcinomas (17), and a high expression level was associated with poor prognosis in esophageal cancer patients (18,19). Targeted down-regulation of survivin by RNA interference (RNAi) repressed the growth of KYSE510 cells, an esophageal squamous carcinoma (ESC) cell line (20). Survivin may bind to the Inhibitor of nuclear factor β promoter, and enhance nuclear factor-κB expression, maintaining the oncogenic characteristics of esophageal cancer cells (21). Despite these data, the role of survivin in the mechanisms of chemo-radioresistance in different types of esophageal cancer has been poorly defined. The present study demonstrated that lentivirus-mediated knockdown of survivin in ESC cell lines suppressed the tumorigenic capacity of these cells, and enhanced the sensitivity to conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy in vitro.
Materials and methods
Cell lines and cell culture
Human esophagus epithelial cells (HEEC) were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA) and cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) (Lonza Group, Ltd., Basel, Switzerland). KYSE-150, TE-1 and ECA-109 and TE-13 were obtained from the Cell Bank of Type Culture Collection of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). The 4 ESC cell lines were cultured in RPMI-1640 (Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). All cells were incubated at 37°C with 5% CO2. The native survivin expression in these four ESC cell lines and HEEC was evaluated using western blotting. KYSE-150, ECA-109 and TE-1 were selected to evacuate the efficiency of survivin short hairpin RNA (shRNA) transfection. KYSE-150 and ECA-109 were further used in colony formation, cell invasion, wound healing assays and their sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs or radiotherapy was assessed.
Plasmids and viruses
Forward oligo (5′-CCGGCTGGACAGAGAAAGAGCCAAGCTCGAGCTTGGCTCTTTCTCTGTCCAGTTTTTG-3′) and reverse oligo (5′-AATTCAAAAACTGGACAGAGAAAGAGCCAAGCTCGAGCTTGGCTCTTTCTCTGTCCAG-3′) DNA were annealed and ligated to EcoR I and Age I digested pLKO.1 vector (22) (a gift from Bob Weinberg, Addgene plasmid #8453). The resulting recombinant pLKO.1 (or empty pLKO.1 as control) was co-transfected with pMD2.G and psPAX2 (supplied as a gift from Didier Trono, Addgene plasmid #12259 and #12260) into 293T cells (ATCC Inc., Manassas, VA, USA). Lentivirus particles in culture supernatant were collected 24 and 48 h after transfection and filtered through a 0.45 um membrane, which were used immediately or aliquoted and frozen at −80°C until use. For virus transfection, half of the culture medium 2 ml DMEM+10% FBS + Penicillin (100 U/ml)-Streptomycin (100 µg/ml) (all Gibco; Thermo Fisher Scientific) was immediately changed to 1,000 µl Lentivirus and (1,000 µl DMEM+10% FBS+ Penicillin-Streptomycin+ 2 µl Polybrene) in the 6-well plate. Prior to continuing culture in the incubator (37°C, 5% CO2) for 4–5 h, the medium was changed to fresh DMEM+10% FBS + Penicillin (100 U/ml)-Streptomycin (100 µg/ml) and cultured overnight. Transfection was performed using Entranster-R4000 regent (Engreen Biosystem New Zealand, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Briefly, cells were plated in 24-well plates in 500 µl DMEM and 10% FBS without antibiotics and allowed to grow to 90% confluency. Both plasmid DNA (2.5 µg) and Entranster-R4000 reagent were diluted in 50 µl of serum-free Opti-MEM (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) medium separately and incubated for 5 min. Following incubation, plasmid DNA and Entranster-R4000 reagent were mixed gently and added to each well containing cells and medium. 6 h later, medium was changed to (DMEM+10% FBS + PS). Cells were incubated at 37°C for 24 h in an incubator containing 5% CO2 at full humidity. The plate was subjected to centrifugation (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) at 1,200 × g for 30 min at room temperature. For quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis of survivin expression, another round of infection was performed at day 5 after the first infection.
The full length of the coding region of human survivin (accession number: NM_001168.2) was cloned to the pcDNA3.1 plasmid (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). A total of 4 µg recombinant plasmid was transfected into the cultured cell lines with 6 µl Lipofectamine® 2000 (Invitrogen; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) for each well of 6-well plates. A blank vector was used as the negative control.
Reverse transcription-qPCR (RT-qPCR)
Cells subjected to survivin shRNA lentivirus or control virus treatment for 24 h were lysed with TRIzol® reagent (Ambion; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) and frozen at −80°C. RNA was extracted according to the protocol of the manufacturer. cDNA was synthesized using random six primers according to the protocol of the reverse transcription kit (cat. no. 240589; Tiangen Biotech, Beijing, China). qPCR was performed using a SYBR green-based protocol (Takara Bio, Inc., Otsu, Japan; cat. no. RR820L) (23). Primers were designed and synthesized by Sangon Biotech. (Shanghai, China). Relative gene expression was determined using the 2−ΔΔCq method (23).
Western blot
Cultured cells were lysed with radioimmunoprecipitation buffer (Solarbio, Beijing, China; cat. no. R0030). Protein concentration was determined with a bicinchoninic acid assay according to kit protocols provided by the manufacturer (cat. no. 23250; Pierce; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). A total of 50 µg total protein from each sample was separated using SDS-PAGE (10% gel), transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane, blocked by 5% non-fat milk at room temperature for 1 h. The membranes were then incubated with survivin (1:3,000), β-actin (1:5,000) or cleaved Poly (adenosine 5′-diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP1; 1:1,000) antibodies (cat. nos. ab76424, ab227387 and ab32561, respectively; all from Abcam, Cambridge, UK) overnight at 4°C. Subsequent to washing 3 times with TBST and incubated with peroxidase conjugated anti-rabbit secondary antibody (1:10,000; cat. no. SAB3700928; Sigma-Aldrich; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) at room temperature for 1 h, the bands were detected with a chemiluminescence kit (cat. no. WBKLS0100; EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) and exposed to X-ray film (Kodak, Rochester, NY, USA).
Colony formation, cell invasion and wound healing assays
A total of ~1,000 cells in the logarithmic growth period were seeded in 6-well dishes. Giemsa staining (5% solution, 30 min at room temperature) was performed when colonies became visible under a light microscope with ×100 magnification. A colony was defined as consisting of at least 50 cells. For the invasion assay, a transwell insert with 8 µm pore size (Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, USA) was coated with Matrigel®. ESC cells resuspended in serum-free RPMI-1640 medium were added to the Transwell insert, and then placed into 24-well dishes containing RPMI-1640 medium with 10% FBS. Cells were further cultured for 24 h at 37°C with 5% CO2. The invading cells adhering to the underside of the insert were stained with 0.05% crystal violet at room temperature for 20 min and counted under a light microscope with ×200 magnification. Wound healing assay was performed according to a previously published protocol (24) with minor adjustment. Briefly, adherent ESC cells in 35 mm dishes were scratched with 10 µl pipette tips, washed twice with PBS, and cultured (37°C, 5% CO2) in serum-free medium at 37°C overnight. The width of the scratch was then calculated. A terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay was performed according to the protocol of the manufacturer (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA).
Chemotherapeutic drugs and radiotherapy
Cells were treated with various concentrations of cisplatin (0.5–64 µg/ml) or paclitaxel (0.25–32 µg/ml) for 24 h or radiation for 3 or 6 Gy. MTT assays were then performed, as described previously (21), to evaluate the live cells. For the TUNEL assay, cells were treated with 1 µg/ml paclitaxel, 2 µg/ml cisplatin or 3 Gy radiation.
Statistical analysis
All results presented were obtained from three independent experiments, with triplicate wells for the RT-qPCR, MTT and TUNEL assays. The data are presented as the mean ± SEM. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare between groups. The post-hoc test used following the ANOVA to perform the pairwise comparisons was the Least Significant Difference test. Analysis was performed with SPSS software (version 13.0; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
Survivin is overexpressed in ESC cell lines and knocked down by short hairpin (sh)RNA
A panel of ESC cell lines was tested for survivin expression. Western blot analysis indicated that survivin was not expressed in the normal esophageal HEEC cell line, whilst highly expressed in the 4 ESC cell lines, TE-1, TE-13, KYSE-150 and ECA-109. No marked difference in survivin expression was observed among these cancer cell lines (Fig. 1A). To clarify if survivin expression in these cancer cell lines was knocked down by shRNA, oligonucleotides were cloned, which had been previously verified for their efficiency in survivin knockdown (25), into lentiviral vectors, transfected it into 293T cells and the supernatant virus (svv-lent) was harvested. The supernatant virus was used to transduce these 4 cell lines for 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 days. RT-qPCR was performed to assess survivin expression. (Fig. 1B) indicates that survivin was knocked down efficiently in all 4 cell lines, with ~50% at day 1 and up to 80% at day 3. Western blot analysis performed at day 2 following transduction also demonstrated that svv-lent efficiently inhibited survivin expression (Fig. 1C) compared with the empty control lentiviral vector (control-lent).
Survivin knockdown impairs the colony-forming, migratory and invasive capabilities of ESC cells
A clonogenic assay was performed in ECA-109 and KYSE-150 cell lines to evaluate the role of survivin in tumorigenicity. Svv-lent infection for 24 h significantly reduced colony formation of the 2 cell lines, while cont-lent transduction had no effect, compared with no infection. A long exposure time to the RNAi virus additionally reduced the number of colonies (Fig. 2A and B). A Matrigel® invasion assay was also performed in KYSE-150 and ECA-109 cells. Svv-lent infection inhibited the invasive ability of these 2 cell lines. The number of invading cells was reduced up to 50% in KYSE-150 cells and ~75% in ECA-109 cells (Fig. 2C and D). Consistent with the Matrigel® invasion assay, the wound healing assay additionally confirmed that survivin knockdown affected ESC cell migration (Fig. 2E and F).
Survivin overexpression facilitates chemo-radiotherapy resistance
The cytotoxic effects of cisplatin and paclitaxel, 2 commonly used drugs for chemotherapy in esophageal cancer, were initially measured in ESC and HEEC cells. Cells seeded in 96-well plates were treated with various concentrations of the drugs for 24 h; the resulting live cells were measured by an MTT assay. HEEC cells were fairly sensitive to cisplatin and paclitaxel, with half maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50) of 2.6 (cisplatin) and 1.3 (paclitaxel) µg/ml. All of the 4 ESC cell lines, however, were resistant to the 2 drugs. The IC50 of cisplatin in the TE1, ECA109, KYSE-150 and TE-13 cell lines were 18, 47.5, 54.5 and 13.7 µg/ml, respectively. The IC50 of paclitaxel in these 4 cell lines were 4.7, 3.9, 13.5 and 3.6 µg/ml, respectively (Fig. 3A and B).
Similarly, HEEC cells and the 4 ESC cell lines were assessed for their sensitivity to radiotherapy. The majority of the cells (3 Gy, ≤50%; 6 Gy, ≤75%) were killed by radiation (Fig. 3C). However, HEEC cells were more sensitive to radiation compared with ESC cells; for example, 3 Gy irradiation killed ~75% HEEC cells, while ~50% KYSE-150, ECA109 and TE-1 cells survived (Fig. 3C). To identify if the resistance exhibited by these cancer cell lines was due to survivin expression, a survivin-pcDNA3.1 plasmid was transfected into normal HEEC cells, and the empty pcDNA3.1 plasmid was used as a control. A cytotoxicity test was repeated. Survivin overexpression enhanced HEEC resistance to cisplatin and paclitaxel, while the control vector (HEEC-neo) had no effect (Fig. 3D).
HEEC with survivin overexpression also exhibited elevated resistance to radiation (Fig. 3D), indicating the role of survivin in chemo- and radiotherapy resistance of esophageal cells.
Survivin knockdown promotes ESC cells apoptosis and chemo-radiotherapy sensitivity
KYSE-150 and ECA-109 cells infected with svv-lent or cont-lent, or the non-infected negative controls, were treated with low-dose paclitaxel or cisplatin. TUNEL assays were performed to assess apoptosis in these cells. Compared to negative controls or cont-lent virus infection, drug treatment or svv-lent transfection significantly increased the proportion of apoptotic cells, indicating the role of survivin in ESC cell survival. Cells pretreated with svv-lent to knock down survivin, then exposed to paclitaxel (Fig. 4A and B) or cisplatin (Fig. 4C and D), exhibited an additionally increased ratio of apoptotic cells of ~50%, compared to drug treatment alone. Western blot analysis of cleaved PARP1, which was cleaved by caspase 3 or other caspases into an 89 kD fragment during apoptosis, confirmed the results obtained by the TUNEL assay (Fig. 4A and C). Drug treatment and svv-lent transfection induced cell apoptosis, while the combination of transfection with treatment additionally increased the proportion of apoptotic cells. Similarly, survivin knockdown sensitized the KYSE-150 and ECA-109 cells to radiation. Svv-lent transfection followed by irradiation increased the proportion of apoptotic cells (Fig. 4E and F).
Discussion
Esophageal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer; it is characterized by poor prognosis, high mortality and relapse rate (2). Worldwide, the predominant histological type is squamous cell carcinoma (1). Incidence of esophageal cancer is considered to increase by 0.5% each year (1). The 1-year survival rate is <45%, and the 5-year overall survival is 16.9% (1). No specific solution to this situation is available at present (2). Survivin is specifically expressed in cancer cells, and is not expressed in normal differentiated tissues, with the exception of a small number of cells including T cells and hematopoietic progenitor cells (16). This expression pattern makes survivin a promising target of cancer therapy. Shepherdin, which targets heat shock protein 90, the partner and stabilizer of survivin, inhibited breast and prostate cancer cells proliferation in vitro and decreased the growth of tumor xenografts (26). YM155, which inhibits survivin transcription, was demonstrated to be effective in diminishing non-small cell lung cancer cells tumors in xenograft models and other cancer cells (27,28), and now is in phase II clinical studies (www.clinicaltrials.gov; no. NCT01100931) (29,30). In the present study, the role of survivin in chemo-radiotherapy resistance of esophageal cancer cells was evaluated.
The present study identified that survivin is overexpressed in 4 ESC cell lines, but not normal esophageal HEEC cells (Fig. 1A). This is consistent with previous studies that revealed that survivin is overexpressed in squamous cell esophageal cancer, but not adenocarcinoma or Barrett's esophagus (15), and in KYSE-150 cells (20), 1 of the 4 cell lines investigated in the present study. Using lentivirus-mediated RNAi, survivin was successfully knocked down (Fig. 1B and C). Survivin knockdown significantly inhibited ESC cells colony formation, migration and invasion (Fig. 2). Similar effects have been identified in other tumors, for example, breast cancer cells (31,32) and prostate and cervical cancer (33,34). Survivin overexpression in the normal HEEC cell line induced chemo-radioresistance (Fig. 3A-D). As determined by MTT experiments, transient transfection of a survivin expression plasmid resulted in more viable cells compared with the control plasmid in HEEC cells treated with paclitaxel, cisplatin or radiation (Fig. 3D). Forced expression of survivin conveying chemo-radioresistance has also been described previously, and overexpression of survivin in HeLa cells resulted in resistance to paclitaxel (16), and resistance to temsirolimus in the renal cancer 786-O cell line (35). Overexpression of Multidrug resistance gene and survivin in RPMI8226/VCR multiple myeloma cells conferred multidrug resistance (36).
The results of the present study also indicated that survivin knockdown in ESC cell lines increased their sensitivity to chemo-radiotherapy (Fig. 4A-F). When ESC cells were exposed to paclitaxel, cisplatin or radiation, survivin knockdown increased the proportion of apoptotic cells, as measured by a TUNEL assay and verified by an elevated cleaved PARP1 level. A similar role of survivin in other types of cancer has been identified in vitro and in animal models previously (37–40). Knockdown of survivin in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma enhanced sensitivity to chemotherapy and radiation (25), and overexpression of an alternative splicing form of survivin in breast cancer cells preserved cell viability to doxorubicin, while YM155 treatment attenuated it (41).
To conclude, the results of the present study suggested that survivin serves a key role in ESC carcinogenesis, proliferation, migration and invasion. Forced expression of survivin confers resistance to chemo-radiotherapy in normal esophageal cells. Down-regulation of survivin suppressed tumor growth and migration, and increased tumor sensitivity to conventional therapies.
Acknowledgements
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Funding
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Availability of data and materials
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Authors' contributions
PX conceived of the study. CZ and LZ performed the experiments. PX analyzed the data and all authors contributed to the final manuscript.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ji'nan Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University.
Patient consent for publication
Not applicable.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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