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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
23
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-8
pubmed:abstractText
Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) is a candidate marker for lung cancer cells with stem cell-like properties. Immunohistochemical staining of a large panel of primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) samples for ALDH1A1, ALDH3A1, and CD133 revealed a significant correlation between ALDH1A1 (but not ALDH3A1 or CD133) expression and poor prognosis in patients including those with stage I and N0 disease. Flow cytometric analysis of a panel of lung cancer cell lines and patient tumors revealed that most NSCLCs contain a subpopulation of cells with elevated ALDH activity, and that this activity is associated with ALDH1A1 expression. Isolated ALDH(+) lung cancer cells were observed to be highly tumorigenic and clonogenic as well as capable of self-renewal compared with their ALDH(-) counterparts. Expression analysis of sorted cells revealed elevated Notch pathway transcript expression in ALDH(+) cells. Suppression of the Notch pathway by treatment with either a ?-secretase inhibitor or stable expression of shRNA against NOTCH3 resulted in a significant decrease in ALDH(+) lung cancer cells, commensurate with a reduction in tumor cell proliferation and clonogenicity. Taken together, these findings indicate that ALDH selects for a subpopulation of self-renewing NSCLC stem-like cells with increased tumorigenic potential, that NSCLCs harboring tumor cells with ALDH1A1 expression have inferior prognosis, and that ALDH1A1 and CD133 identify different tumor subpopulations. Therapeutic targeting of the Notch pathway reduces this ALDH(+) component, implicating Notch signaling in lung cancer stem cell maintenance.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
70
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9937-48
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Adenocarcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Kaplan-Meier Estimate, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Mice, Inbred NOD, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Neoplastic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-RNA Interference, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Receptors, Notch, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Tissue Array Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:21118965-Transplantation, Heterologous
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Aldehyde dehydrogenase activity selects for lung adenocarcinoma stem cells dependent on notch signaling.
pubmed:affiliation
Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural