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TGF-β Promotes Heterogeneity and Drug Resistance in Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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Subsets of long-lived, tumor-initiating stem cells often escape cancer therapies. However, sources and mechanisms that generate tumor heterogeneity and drug-resistant cell population are still unfolding. Here, we devise a functional reporter system to lineage trace and/or genetic ablate signaling in TGF-β-activated squamous cell carcinoma stem cells (SCC-SCs). Dissecting TGF-β's impact on malignant progression, we demonstrate that TGF-β concentrating near tumor-vasculature generates heterogeneity in TGF-β signaling at tumor-stroma interface and bestows slower-cycling properties to neighboring SCC-SCs. While non-responding progenies proliferate faster and accelerate tumor growth, TGF-β-responding progenies invade, aberrantly differentiate, and affect gene expression. Intriguingly, TGF-β-responding SCC-SCs show increased protection against anti-cancer drugs, but slower-cycling alone does not confer survival. Rather, TGF-β transcriptionally activates p21, which stabilizes NRF2, thereby markedly enhancing glutathione metabolism and diminishing effectiveness of anti-cancer therapeutics. Together, these findings establish a surprising non-genetic paradigm for TGF-β signaling in fueling heterogeneity in SCC-SCs, tumor characteristics, and drug resistance.
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- Authors
- Oshimori, N., Oristian, D., & Fuchs, E.
- Affiliations
- Rockefeller University (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fuchs, Elaine
- Venue
- Cell
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2015-02
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- 160
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- 5
- Pages
- 963-976
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- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC4509607
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- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- New York State Department of Health
- National Institutes of Health
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- National Cancer Institute (R00CA178197, K99CA178197)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR031737)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › TGF-β signaling in diseases
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Cells and Metastasis
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Keywords
- TGF-beta signaling, squamous cell carcinoma, cancer stem cells, tumor heterogeneity, drug resistance, tumor-stroma interface, tumor vasculature, cell cycle, p21, Nrf2, glutathione metabolism, lineage tracing, malignant progression, tumor invasion, aberrant differentiation
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Cisplatin, Female, Glutathione, Head and Neck Neoplasms, Humans, Mice, Nude, Neoplasm Transplantation, Skin Neoplasms, Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate, Neoplastic Stem Cells, 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene, Signal Transduction, Transforming Growth Factor beta, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Gene Expression Profiling, NF-E2-Related Factor 2, Mice, Heterografts
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