Hypercapnic acidosis microenvironment promoted epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition through activating ASIC3 in lung adenocarcinoma

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Hypercapnic acidosis microenvironment promoted epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition through activating ASIC3 in lung adenocarcinoma

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Background Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a major role in tumor invasion and metastasis, which is associated with poor survival in surgically resected lung cancer. Tumor microenvironment, especially extracellular acidity is a favorable factor for tumor progression and metastatic spread, and participates in EMT. However, the effects of Hypercapnic acidosis (HCA) microenvironment on EMT of lung cancer still unknown.

Materials and Methods The acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) gene expression and prognostic value in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) were evaluated using online database. Human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells were cultured in 10% CO2 and 90% air for 48h to assess the effects of the HCA microenvironment. Transwell assay and wound-healing assay of A549 cells were performed to determine the effects on EMT.

Results The mRNA expression levels of ASIC3 may be useful for prediction of lung cancer patient overall survival. The expression of ASIC3 significantly increased , and the invasive and migrate ability of A549 cells was promoted after exposing in HCA microenvironment (10% CO2 and 90% air), and inhibited when ASIC3 was blocked.

Conclusion HCA microenvironment induced EMT in lung cancer cells through ASIC3, which may have influence on the FP and OS of lung cancer patients.

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Hypercapnic acidosis

Microenvironment

Lung cancer

acid-sensing ion channels 3

Among the malignant tumors, the mortality rate of lung cancer ranks first in the world. The incidence and mortality of lung cancer in China have also continued to increase in the past few years [1, 2]. According to the prediction of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of deaths from lung cancer will exceed one million by 2025, and the number of patients will rank first in the world [3]. Lung cancer is one of the malignant tumors with the worst prognosis. When more than 80% of patients come to the hospital for treatment, they have lost the best time for surgery and multidisciplinary treatment [4]. Lung cancer is the highest number of cancer-related deaths in the world, which the most important reason is tumor cell metastasis[5, 6]. Metastasis is a multi-step process, which includes cancer cell epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), separation from the primary tumor, migration to nearby tissues or distant organ tissues, and eventually tumor cells spread [7]. Once the cancer cells metastasize, treatment will become very difficult and the chance of survival decreases [8]. Therefore, EMT plays a major role in tumor invasion and metastasis, which is associated with poor survival in surgically resected lung cancer[9, 10]. However, the exact mechanism of EMT in lung cancer has not been fully elucidated.

The tumor microenvironment is an extremely complex internal environment system, composed of tumor interstitial cells, cell metabolites, and various physical and chemical factors such as power of hydrogen (pH), hypoxia, and interstitial fluid pressure [11].Recent studies have been showed that acidity is an inherent feature of the tumor microenvironment [12, 13]. Extracellular acidity is a favorable factor for tumor progression and metastatic spread, and participates in EMT [14]. Hypercapnic acidosis (HCA) is a common clinical comorbidity of lung disease, and HCA has been proven to improve the prognosis of patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) [15, 16]. Meanwhile, HCA has some harmful effects such as suppressing innate immunity/host defense [17, 18]. HCA is a common complication of lung cancer patients, but it is not clear how HCA affects lung cancer. In this study, we worked on how HCA microenvironment affect EMT of human lung adenocarcinoma cells (A549 cells).

Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) is a kind of sense H+ channel, which is an epithelial sodium channel /degenerin superfamily members and activated by the pH [19, 20]. This channels mainly transit? through Na+, and is less permeable to K+ and Ca2+. Six ASICs have been cloned so far: ASIC1a, ASIC1b, ASIC2a, ASIC2b, ASIC3 and ASIC4 [21]. It has been reported that acidic condition stimulates tumor cell invasion which may involve lysosomal proteases, extracellular matrix degradation and promotion of normal cell death [22]. Moreover, ASIC1 and ASIC3 promoted EMT of cancer cells during acidic microenvironment by transducing the acidic to elevation of intracellular Ca2+ concentration [23]. It has been showed that ASIC3 plays an important role in lipopolysaccharide-induced ALI in vivo study [24]. However, until now it has not been examined on the effects of ASICs on lung cancer. In this study, we took advandge of bioinformatics data analysis and found that the mRNA expression levels of ASIC3 might be useful for prediction of lung cancer patient overall survival. Furthermore we tested our hypothesis that exposure of lung cancer cells to HCA microenvironment induces an EMT, and the effects of ASIC3 in this process, thereby increasing the potential for metastasis of A549 lung cancer cells.

GEPIA (Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis) dataset

To analysis the ASICs gene expression in lung cancer, GEPIA was used which is an interactive web server for analyzing the RNA sequencing expression data (http://gepia.cancer-pku.cn/) [25]. Tumor data of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) were selected to analysis the expression on box plots and pathological stage plot, considering adjusted p< 0.01 and log2FC> 1 as a significant difference.

The Kaplan-Meier plotter

The prognostic value of ASICs mRNA expression in lung cancer patients was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier Plotter database (http://kmplot.com/analysis/index.php?p=service&cancer=lung) [26]. 2437 patient samples were split into two groups by median expression (high vs. low expression) and assessed by a Kaplan-Meier survival plot. The overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (FP), and post progression survival (PPS) of patients with lung cancer were analyzed with the hazard ratio (HR), 95% confidence intervals (CI) and logrank p value.

Immunohistochemistry

Immunohistochemical staining was done on the paraffin-embedded cancer tissue. Paraffin sections of 3-μm thick were cut and probed by0.3% hydrogen peroxide for 30 min and the sections were incubated with the primary antibodies ASIC1, ASIC2, ASIC3 andASIC4 which were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA) respectively (1:100 to 1:150 in PBS, overnight at 4℃). Then the sections were incubated with the biontinylated secondary antibody (1:200; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA) for 30min at 37℃and covered by DAB and mounted with Vectashield mounting medium (Vector Laboratories). Subsequently, all fields were observed under light microscopy (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan).

Cell culture and reagents

Human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells were purchased from ATCC Cell Bank and were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) at 37 °C, 5% CO2 and 95% air. To assess the effects of the HCA microenvironment, the cells were cultured in 10% CO2 and 90% air [27], the pH and the pressure of CO2 in the medium were 6.69 ± 0.02 and 71.01 ± 3.17mmHg respectively. To block ASIC3, aminloride (Sigma) was added to medium at the final concentrations of 100 μM for 48 h. The cells were seeded in 12-well tissue culture plates. The rabbit anti-human antibody ASIC3 was purchased from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA), and anti-rabbit secondary antibodies was purchased from KangChen Bio-tech (Shanghai, China). BCA protein assay kit was purchased from Beyotime Biotechnology (Shanghai, China).

Immunofluorescence analysis

A549 cells were plated in 24-well plates and fixed with 0.1% Triton for 30 min at 4 °C. After washed with PBS, A549 cells were treated with 5% bovine serum albumin for 60 min at room temperature and then stained with primary antibody of ASIC3 at 4 °C overnight. The primary antibody was mouse anti-human vimentin (DAKO). The secondary antibody FITC (goat anti-mouse, AbCAM) was diluted 1 : 200 in PBS, and incubated for 60 min at 4 °C, and then slides were mounted onto slides with 1% 4′6-diamidine-2′-phenylindole dihydrochloride (DAPI) for 10 min. Cell images were visualized using a scanning confocal fluorescence microscope (Olympus Co, Japan).

Transwell assay and wound-healing assay

A549 cells migration were assessed by using 24-well transwell chambers (Corning, Shanghai, China) with 8-µm pore size transwell filters (6.5-mm diameter; Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA). Medium containing 30% fetal bovine serum in the lower chamber was used as chemoattractant. Suspensions were placed at 1×10⁵ cells/well into the upper chamber in 100 μl of serum-free medium and incubated in 5% CO2 at 37°C for 48 h. Then the filters were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde and stained with 0.1% crystal violet, the average number of cells on the membrane of lower chamber from five randomly chosen microscope fields was counted. For wound-healing assay, the A549 cells were seeded in 12-well plates and allowed to grow until their concentration reached 90%, then scratched the cell monolayer with a micropipette tip and cultured in serum-free medium. Microphotographs were taken at 48 h.

Cell viability assay

MTT assay was performed to measure A549 cells viability after cells were seeded into 96-well plates and incubated at 37 °C for 2 days. A549 cells viability was calculated by the survival rate (the ratio of the OD value at 570 nm between the experimental group and the control group). All experiments were repeated three times independently and three samples per group.

Relationship between the mRNA levels of ASICs and the clipathological parameters of patients with lung cancer

To investigate the mRNA expressions of ASICs factors between lung cancer and normal lung tissues, the GEPIA dataset (http://gepia.cancer-pku.cn/)was used. The results showed that the expression levels of ASIC1, ASIC2, ASIC3 and ASIC4 were not high in tumor and normal lung tissues, and mRNA expressions of ASIC1and ASIC3 in LUSC tissues were higher compared with normal tissues (Figure 1A, p < 0.05). Next, we also analyzed the expression of ASICs with tumor stage for LUAD and LUSC. The results indicated that the expression level of ASIC2 group significantly varied, whereas ASIC1, ASIC3 and ASIC4 groups were not significantly different (Figure 1B). We performed immunohistochemical staining to test ASICs proteins expression in lung cancer tissues and the counterparts and to examine the expression of ASICs in tumor. The results showed that ASIC1 and ASIC3 proteins were more highly expressed in the lung cancer tissues than the normal lung tissues (Figure 1C), however, all the expression level of ASICs were not high.

Prognostic value of the ASICs mRNA expression in lung cancer patients

To determine the prognostic values of the mRNA expression of ASICs in lung cancer patients, Kaplan-Meier Plotter database (http://kmplot.com/analysis/index.php?p=service&cancer=lung) was used to analysis the survival condition between high expression and low expression. The results showed that the increased ASIC3 and ASIC4 mRNA levels were significantly associated with progression-free survival (FP) and overall survival (OS) (p<0.05), and all the ASICs mRNA levels were not associated with post progression survival (PPS) (p>0.05) (Figure 2). Combined the different ASICs mRNA expression in tumor and normal tissues, these results suggested that the mRNA expression levels of ASIC3 may be useful for prediction of lung cancer patient overall survival.

Effects of hypercapnic acidosis on the expression of ASIC3 in A549 cells

To assess the effects of the HCA microenvironment, the A549 cells were cultured in 10% CO2 and 90% air. Compared with the A549 cells cultured in normal environment (5% CO2 and 90% air), the expression of ASIC3 significantly increased (fluorescence intensity of ASIC3, 0.43 ± 0.07 vs 0.79 ± 0.11, p<0.01) (Figure 3). After ASIC3 blocked by aminloride which was added to medium at various final concentrations 100 μM for 48 h in HCA microenvironment, the expression of ASIC3 significantly decreased(fluorescence intensity of ASIC3, 0.79 ± 0.11 vs 0.17 ± 0.05, p<0.01) (Figure 3).

Hypercapnic acidosis microenvironment promoted EMT of A549 cells

We have showed that the mRNA expression levels of ASIC3 may be useful for prediction of lung cancer patient overall survival, and the expression of ASIC3 was relatively higher in HCA microenvironment, therefore, we performed transwell assay and wound-healing assay of A549 cells in HCA microenvironment to further determine their roles in EMT, and also performed MTT assay to measure A549 cells viability. The results showed that the invasive ability of A549 cells was promoted in HCA microenvironment. Correspondingly, the invasive ability of A549 cells was inhibited after ASIC3 blocked (Figure 4A and 4B). Similarly, the migrate ability of A549 cells was also promoted in HCA microenvironment and suppressed after ASIC3 blocked (Figure 4C). However, inhibition of ASIC3 did not display significant effect on viability of A549 cells (Figure 4D). Collectively, these results suggested that A549 cells have the increased activity of invasion and migration in HCA microenvironment, and ASIC3 plays an important role in these processes.

HCA which occurs due to an excess of CO2 in the blood has been associated with improvement in patients with ALI/ARDS, and the permissive and even therapeutic hypercapina have been proposed in treating the ALI/ARDS patients [15-17] . However, there are also studies showed that hypercapnia has some harmful effects, such as inhibiting alveolar epithelial function and epithelial cell repair, suppressing innate immunity/host defence and airway function[18]. In this study, we investigated the effects of HCA microenvironment on EMT of A549 cells. Bioinformatics data were used and foundthat the mRNA expression levels of ASIC3 may be useful for prediction of lung cancer patient overall survival. Next, we investigated the relationship between ASIC3 and the effects of HCA on EMT of the A549 lung cancer cells. The results showed that the expression of ASCI3 increased and the EMT of A549 cells promoted after exposure to a HCA (10%CO2+90% air) environment, and blocking ASIC3 could suppress these effects. Collectively, our results demonstrated that HCA microenvironment promoted the EMT of human lung cancer A549 cells through ASIC3, which also may affect the overall survival of lung cancer patients.

The acidic microenvironment is closely related to the proliferation [28, 29], invasion and metastasis of tumors [30], which is carried out mainly by inducing new angiogenesis, escaping immune surveillance, and EMT. Therefore, the targeted tumor microenvironment may become part of future anti-tumor therapy[31]. Studies showed that the tumor cells always in hypoxia environment for the tumor cells grows fast and the new blood vessel function is incomplete [32-34]. However, a large number of studies have confirmed that tumor cells, even with sufficient oxygen supply, are mainly anaerobic glycolysis to obtain energy, which is known as the "Warburg effect" [35-37]. Hypoxia is often associated with CO2 accumulation, so HCA microenvironment may play an important role in cancer progression and evolution. In this study, transwell assay and wound-healing assay were used to determine HCA microenvironment effects in EMT of lung cancer A549 cells. The results showed that HCA microenvironment could increase the activity of invasion and migration of A549 cells in vitro. But it is not clear yet how HCA microenvironment affects EMT of lung cancer A549 cells.

In this study, we used bio-information technology to investigate the mRNA expressions of ASICs factors between lung cancer and normal lung tissues, and the GEPIA dataset showed that the expression levels of ASICs were not high in tumor and normal lung tissues, and only ASIC1and ASIC3 mRNA expressions had difference, and immunohistochemical staining showed the same results as GEPIA dataset. We also investigated the prognostic values of the mRNA expression of ASICs in lung cancer patients by Kaplan-Meier Plotter database. It showed that the increased ASIC3 and ASIC4 mRNA levels were significantly associated with FP and OS. So the mRNA expression levels of ASIC3 may be useful for prediction of lung cancer patient overall survival. Although ASICs are expressed in most of physiological and pathological functions in neurological diseases [38, 39], some studies have shown that ASIC1 and ASIC3 are involved in acid-induced EMT to promote tumor metastasis [23]. Interestingly, HCA microenvironment could increase the expression of ASIC3 in A549 cells, and the invasion and migration of A549 cells were suppressed after blocking ASIC3 in HCA microenvironment. Therefore, our results suggest that ASIC3 which regulating HCA micoenvironment induced EMT of A549 cells, at least partially, may be contributed to the metastasis of lung cacer and the survival of lung cancer patients.

In conclusion, our study highlights a mechanism for HCA micoenvironment induce EMT in lung cancer cells through ASIC3, which may affect to the FP and OS of lung cancer patients. Therefore, ASIC3 may represent a possible target for therapeutic intervention in lung cancer. Alternatively, strengthening the intervention of HCA may be an important measure in the clinical treatment of lung cancer.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University.

Consent for publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the Gene Expression Profiling Interactive Analysis and Kaplan-Meier Plotter database repository. [http://gepia.cancer-pku.cn/ and http://kmplot.com/analysis/index.php?p=service&cancer=lung]

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Funding

This study was supported by the Foundation of Science and Technology of Jiangxi Province Plan (NO.20202BABL206071).

Authors' contributions

This study conception and design were performed by Liangchao Qu. Dingde Long , Xingjun Fang and Peihua Yuan wrote the main manuscript text, and Hongtao Li confirm the authenticity of all the raw data. Critical revision of the manuscript was given by all authors. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

Acknowledgements

We thank Professor Lei Zhou of Virginia Commonwealth University for the language modification.

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