Saksis Rihards, Silamikelis Ivars, Laksa Pola, Megnis Kaspars, Peculis Raitis, Mandrika Ilona, Rogoza Olesja, Petrovska Ramona, Balcere Inga, Konrade Ilze, Steina Liva, Stukens Janis, Breiksa Austra, Nazarovs Jurijs, Sokolovska Jelizaveta, Pirags Valdis, Klovins Janis, Rovite Vita
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia.
Riga East Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
Front Oncol. 2021 Feb 15;10:593760. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.593760. eCollection 2020.
Acromegaly is a disease mainly caused by pituitary neuroendocrine tumor (PitNET) overproducing growth hormone. First-line medication for this condition is the use of somatostatin analogs (SSAs), that decrease tumor mass and induce antiproliferative effects on PitNET cells. Dopamine agonists (DAs) can also be used if SSA treatment is not effective. This study aimed to determine differences in transcriptome signatures induced by SSA/DA therapy in PitNET tissue. We selected tumor tissue from twelve patients with somatotropinomas, with half of the patients receiving SSA/DA treatment before surgery and the other half treatment naive. Transcriptome sequencing was then carried out to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and their protein-protein interactions, using pathway analyses. We found 34 upregulated and six downregulated DEGs in patients with SSA/DA treatment. Three tumor development promoting factors , and , were significantly downregulated in therapy administered PitNET tissue; this finding was supported by functional studies in GH3 cells. Protein-protein interactions and pathway analyses revealed extracellular matrix involvement in the antiproliferative effects of this type of the drug treatment, with pronounced alterations in collagen regulation. Here, we have demonstrated that somatotropinomas can be distinguished based on their transcriptional profiles following SSA/DA therapy, and SSA/DA treatment does indeed cause changes in gene expression. Treatment with SSA/DA significantly downregulated several factors involved in tumorigenesis, including , and Genes that were upregulated, however, did not have a direct influence on antiproliferative function in the PitNET cells. These findings suggested that SSA/DA treatment acted in a tumor suppressive manner and furthermore, collagen related interactions and pathways were enriched, implicating extracellular matrix involvement in this anti-tumor effect of drug treatment.
肢端肥大症是一种主要由垂体神经内分泌肿瘤(PitNET)过度分泌生长激素引起的疾病。这种病症的一线治疗药物是使用生长抑素类似物(SSA),其可减小肿瘤体积并对PitNET细胞产生抗增殖作用。如果SSA治疗无效,也可使用多巴胺激动剂(DA)。本研究旨在确定SSA/DA疗法在PitNET组织中诱导的转录组特征差异。我们从12例生长激素瘤患者中选取肿瘤组织,其中一半患者在手术前接受SSA/DA治疗,另一半未接受过治疗。然后进行转录组测序,通过通路分析确定差异表达基因(DEG)及其蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用。我们发现接受SSA/DA治疗的患者中有34个DEG上调,6个DEG下调。三种肿瘤发展促进因子,以及,在接受治疗的PitNET组织中显著下调;这一发现得到了GH3细胞功能研究的支持。蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用和通路分析表明,细胞外基质参与了这类药物治疗的抗增殖作用,胶原蛋白调节发生了显著改变。在这里,我们已经证明,生长激素瘤可以根据其在SSA/DA治疗后的转录谱进行区分,并且SSA/DA治疗确实会引起基因表达的变化。SSA/DA治疗显著下调了几个参与肿瘤发生的因子,包括,和然而,上调的基因对PitNET细胞的抗增殖功能没有直接影响。这些发现表明,SSA/DA治疗以肿瘤抑制方式发挥作用,此外,胶原蛋白相关的相互作用和通路得到了富集,这意味着细胞外基质参与了药物治疗的这种抗肿瘤作用。