Tisza Michael J, Zhao Weina, Fuentes Jessie S R, Prijic Sara, Chen Xiaoling, Levental Ilya, Chang Jeffrey T
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Oncotarget. 2016 Aug 9;7(32):51553-51568. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.9928.
The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) is a developmental program that provides cancer cells with the characteristics necessary for metastasis, including increased motility and stem cell properties. The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying this process are not yet fully understood, hampering efforts to develop therapeutics. In recent years, it has become apparent that EMT is accompanied by wholesale changes in diverse signaling pathways that are initiated by proteins at the plasma membrane (PM). The PM contains thousands of lipid and protein species that are dynamically and spatially organized into lateral membrane domains, an example of which are lipid rafts. Since one of the major functions of rafts is modulation of signaling originating at the PM, we hypothesized that the signaling changes occurring during an EMT are associated with alterations in PM organization. To test this hypothesis, we used Giant Plasma Membrane Vesicles (GPMVs) to study the organization of intact plasma membranes isolated from live cells. We observed that induction of EMT significantly destabilized lipid raft domains. Further, this reduction in stability was crucial for the maintenance of the stem cell phenotype and EMT-induced remodeling of PM-orchestrated pathways. Exogenously increasing raft stability by feeding cells with ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) repressed these phenotypes without altering EMT markers, and inhibited the metastatic capacity of breast cancer cells. Hence, modulating raft properties regulates cell phenotype, suggesting a novel approach for targeting the impact of EMT in cancer.
上皮-间质转化(EMT)是一种发育程序,它赋予癌细胞转移所需的特性,包括增强的运动性和干细胞特性。这一过程背后的细胞和分子机制尚未完全了解,阻碍了开发治疗方法的努力。近年来,越来越明显的是,EMT伴随着由质膜(PM)上的蛋白质引发的多种信号通路的全面变化。质膜包含数千种脂质和蛋白质种类,它们动态且空间地组织成侧向膜结构域,脂质筏就是其中一个例子。由于筏的主要功能之一是调节源自质膜的信号,我们推测EMT过程中发生的信号变化与质膜组织的改变有关。为了验证这一假设,我们使用巨型质膜囊泡(GPMV)来研究从活细胞中分离出的完整质膜的组织情况。我们观察到EMT的诱导显著破坏了脂质筏结构域的稳定性。此外,这种稳定性的降低对于维持干细胞表型和EMT诱导的质膜协调通路的重塑至关重要。通过用ω-3多不饱和脂肪酸二十二碳六烯酸(DHA)喂养细胞来外源增加筏的稳定性,可抑制这些表型而不改变EMT标志物,并抑制乳腺癌细胞的转移能力。因此,调节筏的特性可调节细胞表型,这为针对EMT在癌症中的影响提供了一种新方法。
Stem Cell Res Ther. 2022-8-30
Semin Cancer Biol. 2023-10
Nano Lett. 2022-9-28
Stem Cell Res Ther. 2022-8-30
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022-1-25
Annu Rev Biophys. 2022-5-9
Int J Mol Sci. 2021-3-26
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021-1-21
Nat Rev Cancer. 2016-4
Cell Signal. 2014-10
Biophys J. 2013-12-17
J Biol Chem. 2013-10-28