前列腺癌的沉默伙伴:成纤维细胞及其对谷氨酰胺代谢操纵的影响。
Prostate Cancer's Silent Partners: Fibroblasts and Their Influence on Glutamine Metabolism Manipulation.
机构信息
Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Core Unit for Molecular Tumor Diagnostics (CMTD), National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
出版信息
Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Aug 27;25(17):9275. doi: 10.3390/ijms25179275.
Cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF)s in the tumour microenvironment (TME) modulate the extracellular matrix, interact with cancer cells, and facilitate communication with infiltrating leukocytes, significantly contributing to cancer progression and therapeutic response. In prostate cancer (PCa), CAFs promote malignancy through metabolic rewiring, cancer stem cell regulation, and therapy resistance. Pre-clinical studies indicate that targeting amino acid metabolism, particularly glutamine (Gln) metabolism, reduces cancer proliferation and stemness. However, most studies lack the context of CAF-cancer interaction, focusing on monocultures. This study assesses the influence of CAFs on PCa growth by manipulating Gln metabolism using colour-labelled PCa cell lines (red) and fibroblast (green) in a co-culture system to evaluate CAFs' effects on PCa cell proliferation and clonogenic potential. CAFs increased the proliferation of hormone-sensitive LNCaP cells, whereas the castration-resistant C4-2 cells were unaffected. However, clonogenic growth increased in both cell lines. Gln deprivation and GLS1 inhibition experiments revealed that the increased growth rate of LNCAP cells was associated with increased dependence on Gln, which was confirmed by proteomic analyses. Tissue analysis of PCa patients revealed elevated GLS1 levels in both the PCa epithelium and stroma, suggesting that GLS1 is a therapeutic target. Moreover, the median overall survival analysis of GLS1 expression in the PCa epithelium and stroma identified a "high-risk" patient group that may benefit from GLS1-targeted therapies. Therefore, GLS1 targeting appears promising in castration-resistant PCa patients with high GLS1 epithelium and low GLS1 stromal expression.
肿瘤微环境中的癌症相关成纤维细胞(CAF)调节细胞外基质,与癌细胞相互作用,并促进与浸润性白细胞的通讯,这对癌症的进展和治疗反应有重要影响。在前列腺癌(PCa)中,CAF 通过代谢重编程、癌症干细胞调节和治疗抵抗促进恶性肿瘤的发展。临床前研究表明,靶向氨基酸代谢,特别是谷氨酰胺(Gln)代谢,可以减少癌症增殖和干细胞样特性。然而,大多数研究缺乏 CAF-癌症相互作用的背景,主要集中在单一培养物上。本研究通过在共培养系统中使用彩色标记的 PCa 细胞系(红色)和成纤维细胞(绿色)来操纵 Gln 代谢,评估 CAF 对 PCa 细胞增殖和克隆形成潜力的影响,从而评估 CAF 对 PCa 生长的影响。CAF 增加了激素敏感的 LNCaP 细胞的增殖,而对去势抵抗的 C4-2 细胞没有影响。然而,两种细胞系的克隆生长都增加了。Gln 剥夺和 GLS1 抑制实验表明,LNCAP 细胞增长率的增加与对 Gln 的依赖性增加有关,这一结果通过蛋白质组学分析得到了证实。对 PCa 患者的组织分析显示,PCa 上皮和基质中 GLS1 水平均升高,这表明 GLS1 是一个治疗靶点。此外,在 PCa 上皮和基质中 GLS1 表达的中位总生存分析确定了一个“高危”患者群体,可能受益于 GLS1 靶向治疗。因此,在高 GLS1 上皮和低 GLS1 基质表达的去势抵抗 PCa 患者中,靶向 GLS1 似乎很有前景。