Rosier Marieke, Krstulović Anja, Kim Hyejeong Rosemary, Kaur Nihardeep, Enakireru Erhumuoghene Mary, Symmes Deebie, Dobra Katalin, Chen Ruihuan, Evans Caroline A, Gad Annica K B
Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 64 Solna, Sweden.
Department of Oncology and Metabolism, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK.
Cancers (Basel). 2024 Dec 30;17(1):81. doi: 10.3390/cancers17010081.
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a common feature in early cancer invasion. Increased vimentin is a canonical marker of the EMT; however, the role of vimentin in EMT remains unknown. To clarify this, we induced EMT in lung cancer cells with TGF-β1, followed by treatment with the vimentin-targeting drug ALD-R491, live-cell imaging, and quantitative proteomics. We identified 838 proteins in the intermediate filament fraction of cells. TGF-β1 treatment increased the proportion of vimentin in this fraction and the levels of 24 proteins. Variants of fibronectin showed the most pronounced increase (137-fold), followed by regulators of the cytoskeleton, cell motility, and division, such as the mRNA-splicing protein SON. TGF-β1 increased cell spreading and cell migration speed, and changed a positive correlation between cell migration speed and persistence to negative. ALD-R491 reversed these mesenchymal phenotypes to epithelial and the binding of RNA-binding proteins, including SON. These findings present many new interactors of intermediate filaments, describe how EMT and vimentin filament dynamics influence the intermediate filament interactome, and present ALD-R491 as a possible EMT-inhibitor. The observations support the hypothesis that the dynamic turnover of vimentin filaments and their interacting proteins govern mesenchymal cell migration, EMT, cell invasion, and cancer metastasis.
上皮-间质转化(EMT)是早期癌症侵袭的一个常见特征。波形蛋白表达增加是EMT的一个典型标志物;然而,波形蛋白在EMT中的作用仍不清楚。为了阐明这一点,我们用转化生长因子-β1(TGF-β1)诱导肺癌细胞发生EMT,随后用靶向波形蛋白的药物ALD-R491进行处理,并进行活细胞成像和定量蛋白质组学分析。我们在细胞的中间丝组分中鉴定出838种蛋白质。TGF-β1处理增加了该组分中波形蛋白的比例以及24种蛋白质的水平。纤连蛋白的变体显示出最显著的增加(137倍),其次是细胞骨架、细胞运动和分裂的调节因子,如mRNA剪接蛋白SON。TGF-β1增加了细胞铺展和细胞迁移速度,并将细胞迁移速度与持续性之间的正相关转变为负相关。ALD-R491将这些间充质表型逆转为上皮表型,并逆转了包括SON在内的RNA结合蛋白的结合。这些发现揭示了许多新的中间丝相互作用蛋白,描述了EMT和波形蛋白丝动力学如何影响中间丝相互作用组,并表明ALD-R491可能是一种EMT抑制剂。这些观察结果支持了这样一种假说,即波形蛋白丝及其相互作用蛋白的动态更新控制着间充质细胞迁移、EMT、细胞侵袭和癌症转移。
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