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Item Type Journal Article
Title Autocrine secretion of progastrin promotes the survival and self-renewal of colon cancer stem-like cells
Creator Giraud et al.
Author Julie Giraud
Author Laura M. Failla
Author Jean-Marc Pascussi
Author Ebba L. Lagerqvist
Author Jérémy Ollier
Author Pascal Finetti
Author François Bertucci
Author Chu Ya
Author Imène Gasmi
Author Jean-François Bourgaux
Author Michel Prudhomme
Author Thibault Mazard
Author Leila Houhou
Author Daniel Birnbaum
Author Charles Vincent
Author James G. Ryall
Author Dominique Joubert
Author Julie Pannequin
Author Frédéric Hollande
Abstract Subpopulations of cancer stem-like cells (CSC) are thought to drive tumor progression and post-treatment recurrence in multiple solid tumors. However, the mechanisms that maintain stable proportions of self-renewing CSC within heterogeneous tumors under homeostatic conditions remain poorly understood. Progastrin is a secreted peptide that exhibits tumor-forming potential in colorectal cancer (CRC), where it regulates pathways known to modulate colon CSC behaviors. In this study, we investigated the role of progastrin in regulating CSC phenotype in advanced CRC. Progastrin expression and secretion were highly enriched in colon CSC isolated from human CRC cell lines and colon tumor biopsies. Progastrin expression promoted CSC self-renewal and survival, whereas its depletion by RNAi-mediated or antibody-mediated strategies altered the homeostatic proportions of CSC cells within heterogeneous CRC tumors. Progastrin downregulation also decreased the frequency of ALDHhigh cells, impairing their tumor-initiating potential, and inhibited the high glycolytic activity of ALDHhigh CSC to limit their self-renewal capability. Taken together, our results show how colorectal CSC maintain their tumor-initiating and self-renewal capabilities by secreting progastrin, thereby contributing to the tumor microenvironment to support malignancy.
Publication Cancer Research
Date May 4, 2016
Journal Abbr Cancer Res.
Language ENG
DOI 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-1497
ISSN 1538-7445
Library Catalog PubMed
Extra 00000 PMID: 27197176
Tags collaboration, original
Date Added 2019/12/12 - 17:35:38
Date Modified 2020/01/09 - 18:10:22
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