Beier Christoph P, Beier Dagmar
Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen, Medical School, Aachen, Germany.
Front Biosci (Elite Ed). 2011 Jan 1;3(2):701-10. doi: 10.2741/e280.
Glioblastomas (GBM) are paradigmatic for the investigation of cancer stem cells (CSC) in solid tumors. Recently, the discovery of CD133- CSC in addition to CD133+ CSC has substantially added to our understanding of the complexity of GBM CSC. This review gives an overview on our current knowledge on CD133- cells in GBM and describes five different hypothesizes on the nature of CD133- cells in GBM. In addition, we summarize the current knowledge on tumorigenic CD133- CSC, list available markers, describe the current controversies on the origin of CD133- CSC, and discuss how the heterogeneity of CSC may correspond to the molecular heterogeneity of GBM.
胶质母细胞瘤(GBM)是实体瘤中癌症干细胞(CSC)研究的典范。最近,除了CD133 + CSC之外,CD133 - CSC的发现极大地增进了我们对GBM CSC复杂性的理解。本综述概述了我们目前对GBM中CD133 - 细胞的认识,并描述了关于GBM中CD133 - 细胞性质的五种不同假设。此外,我们总结了目前关于致瘤性CD133 - CSC的知识,列出了可用的标志物,描述了关于CD133 - CSC起源的当前争议,并讨论了CSC的异质性如何与GBM的分子异质性相对应。