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- Title
Dll1+ quiescent tumor stem cells drive chemoresistance in breast cancer through NF-κB survival pathway.
- Authors
Kumar, Sushil; Nandi, Ajeya; Singh, Snahlata; Regulapati, Rohan; Li, Ning; Tobias, John W.; Siebel, Christian W.; Blanco, Mario Andres; Klein-Szanto, Andres J.; Lengner, Christopher; Welm, Alana L.; Kang, Yibin; Chakrabarti, Rumela
- Abstract
Development of chemoresistance in breast cancer patients greatly increases mortality. Thus, understanding mechanisms underlying breast cancer resistance to chemotherapy is of paramount importance to overcome this clinical challenge. Although activated Notch receptors have been associated with chemoresistance in cancer, the specific Notch ligands and their molecular mechanisms leading to chemoresistance in breast cancer remain elusive. Using conditional knockout and reporter mouse models, we demonstrate that tumor cells expressing the Notch ligand Dll1 is important for tumor growth and metastasis and bear similarities to tumor-initiating cancer cells (TICs) in breast cancer. RNA-seq and ATAC-seq using reporter models and patient data demonstrated that NF-κB activation is downstream of Dll1 and is associated with a chemoresistant phenotype. Finally, pharmacological blocking of Dll1 or NF-κB pathway completely sensitizes Dll1+ tumors to chemotherapy, highlighting therapeutic avenues for chemotherapy resistant breast cancer patients in the near future. Although activated Notch receptors have been associated with chemoresistance in cancer, the role of specific Notch ligands remain elusive. Here, the authors show that in breast cells the Notch ligand DLL1 is expressed in cells with a cancer stem cell phenotype and promote doxorubicin resistance in part through NF-kB, as well as metastasis.
- Subjects
STEM cells; DRUG resistance in cancer cells; BREAST cancer; CANCER chemotherapy; CANCER stem cells; NOTCH genes
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-020-20664-5