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Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis
BACKGROUND: Despite the availability of various therapy options and being a widely focused research area, the prognosis of glioblastoma (GBM) still remains very poor due to therapy resistance, genetic heterogeneity and a diffuse infiltration pattern. The recently described non-apoptotic form of cell...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9071304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35530303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.841418 |
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author | Kram, Helena Prokop, Georg Haller, Bernhard Gempt, Jens Wu, Yang Schmidt-Graf, Friederike Schlegel, Jürgen Conrad, Marcus Liesche-Starnecker, Friederike |
author_facet | Kram, Helena Prokop, Georg Haller, Bernhard Gempt, Jens Wu, Yang Schmidt-Graf, Friederike Schlegel, Jürgen Conrad, Marcus Liesche-Starnecker, Friederike |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite the availability of various therapy options and being a widely focused research area, the prognosis of glioblastoma (GBM) still remains very poor due to therapy resistance, genetic heterogeneity and a diffuse infiltration pattern. The recently described non-apoptotic form of cell death ferroptosis may, however, offer novel opportunities for targeted therapies. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the potential role of ferroptosis in GBM, including the impact of treatment on the expression of the two ferroptosis-associated players glutathione-peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and acyl-CoA-synthetase long-chain family number 4 (ACSL4). Furthermore, the change in expression of the recently identified ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) 1A3 was investigated. METHODS: Immunohistochemistry was performed on sample pairs of primary and relapse GBM of 24 patients who had received standard adjuvant treatment with radiochemotherapy. To identify cell types generally prone to undergo ferroptosis, co-stainings of ferroptosis susceptibility genes in combination with cell-type specific markers including glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) for tumor cells and astrocytes, as well as the ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba1) for microglial cells were performed, supplemented by double stains combining GPX4 and ACSL4. RESULTS: While the expression of GPX4 decreased significantly during tumor relapse, ACSL4 showed a significant increase. These results were confirmed by analyses of data sets of the Cancer Genome Atlas. These profound changes indicate an increased susceptibility of relapsed tumors towards oxidative stress and associated ferroptosis, a cell death modality characterized by unrestrained lipid peroxidation. Moreover, ALDH1A3 and FSP1 expression also increased in the relapses with significant results for ALDH1A3, whereas for FSP1, statistical significance was not reached. Results obtained from double staining imply that ferroptosis occurs more likely in GBM tumor cells than in microglial cells. CONCLUSION: Our study implies that ferroptosis takes place in GBM tumor cells. Moreover, we show that recurrent tumors have a higher vulnerability to ferroptosis. These results affirm that utilizing ferroptosis processes might be a possible novel therapy option, especially in the situation of recurrent GBM. |
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spelling | pubmed-90713042022-05-06 Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis Kram, Helena Prokop, Georg Haller, Bernhard Gempt, Jens Wu, Yang Schmidt-Graf, Friederike Schlegel, Jürgen Conrad, Marcus Liesche-Starnecker, Friederike Front Oncol Oncology BACKGROUND: Despite the availability of various therapy options and being a widely focused research area, the prognosis of glioblastoma (GBM) still remains very poor due to therapy resistance, genetic heterogeneity and a diffuse infiltration pattern. The recently described non-apoptotic form of cell death ferroptosis may, however, offer novel opportunities for targeted therapies. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the potential role of ferroptosis in GBM, including the impact of treatment on the expression of the two ferroptosis-associated players glutathione-peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and acyl-CoA-synthetase long-chain family number 4 (ACSL4). Furthermore, the change in expression of the recently identified ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) 1A3 was investigated. METHODS: Immunohistochemistry was performed on sample pairs of primary and relapse GBM of 24 patients who had received standard adjuvant treatment with radiochemotherapy. To identify cell types generally prone to undergo ferroptosis, co-stainings of ferroptosis susceptibility genes in combination with cell-type specific markers including glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) for tumor cells and astrocytes, as well as the ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba1) for microglial cells were performed, supplemented by double stains combining GPX4 and ACSL4. RESULTS: While the expression of GPX4 decreased significantly during tumor relapse, ACSL4 showed a significant increase. These results were confirmed by analyses of data sets of the Cancer Genome Atlas. These profound changes indicate an increased susceptibility of relapsed tumors towards oxidative stress and associated ferroptosis, a cell death modality characterized by unrestrained lipid peroxidation. Moreover, ALDH1A3 and FSP1 expression also increased in the relapses with significant results for ALDH1A3, whereas for FSP1, statistical significance was not reached. Results obtained from double staining imply that ferroptosis occurs more likely in GBM tumor cells than in microglial cells. CONCLUSION: Our study implies that ferroptosis takes place in GBM tumor cells. Moreover, we show that recurrent tumors have a higher vulnerability to ferroptosis. These results affirm that utilizing ferroptosis processes might be a possible novel therapy option, especially in the situation of recurrent GBM. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9071304/ /pubmed/35530303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.841418 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kram, Prokop, Haller, Gempt, Wu, Schmidt-Graf, Schlegel, Conrad and Liesche-Starnecker https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Kram, Helena Prokop, Georg Haller, Bernhard Gempt, Jens Wu, Yang Schmidt-Graf, Friederike Schlegel, Jürgen Conrad, Marcus Liesche-Starnecker, Friederike Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis |
title | Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis |
title_full | Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis |
title_fullStr | Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis |
title_short | Glioblastoma Relapses Show Increased Markers of Vulnerability to Ferroptosis |
title_sort | glioblastoma relapses show increased markers of vulnerability to ferroptosis |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9071304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35530303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.841418 |
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