Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2022 Dec;9(35):e2204513. doi: 10.1002/advs.202204513. Epub 2022 Oct 26.
Oxaliplatin is commonly used in chemotherapeutic regimens for colorectal cancer (CRC) after surgical resection. However, acquired chemoresistance seriously affects the curative effect in CRC patients, and the mechanism is still unclear. Here, a circular RNA, circATG4B is identified, which plays an important role in oxaliplatin resistance in CRC. circATG4B expression is found to be increased in exosomes secreted by oxaliplatin-resistant CRC cells. In addition, the results suggest that circATG4B induces oxaliplatin resistance by promoting autophagy. Further in vivo and in vitro studies indicate that the effect of circATG4B is attributed to its potential to encode a novel protein, circATG4B-222aa. Next, circATG4B-222aa is found to function as a decoy to competitively interact with TMED10 and prevent TMED10 from binding to ATG4B, which leads to increased autophagy followed by induction of chemoresistance. Therefore, this study reveals that exosomal circATG4B participates in the decreased chemosensitivity of CRC cells, providing a new rationale for a potential therapeutic target for oxaliplatin resistance in CRC.
奥沙利铂常用于结直肠癌(CRC)手术后的化疗方案。然而,获得性化疗耐药严重影响 CRC 患者的疗效,其机制尚不清楚。在这里,鉴定出一种环状 RNA,circATG4B,它在 CRC 中的奥沙利铂耐药中起重要作用。发现奥沙利铂耐药 CRC 细胞分泌的外泌体中 circATG4B 的表达增加。此外,结果表明 circATG4B 通过促进自噬诱导奥沙利铂耐药。进一步的体内和体外研究表明,circATG4B 的作用归因于其编码一种新型蛋白质 circATG4B-222aa 的潜力。接下来,发现 circATG4B-222aa 作为一种诱饵与 TMED10 竞争相互作用,防止 TMED10 与 ATG4B 结合,导致自噬增加,随后诱导化疗耐药。因此,本研究揭示了外泌体 circATG4B 参与了结直肠癌细胞化疗敏感性降低,为 CRC 奥沙利铂耐药的潜在治疗靶点提供了新的依据。