Family With Sequence Similarity 46 Member A Confers Chemo-Resistance to Ovarian Carcinoma via TGF-β/Smad2 Signaling

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Family With Sequence Similarity 46 Member A Confers Chemo-Resistance to Ovarian Carcinoma via TGF-β/Smad2 Signaling

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Purpose: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal malignancy with depressive 5-year survival rate, mainly due to patients with advanced stages experience tumor recurrence and resistance to the current chemotherapeutic agents. Thus, discovering the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in chemo-resistance is crucial for management of treatment to improve therapeutic outcomes.

Methods: The protein and mRNA expression of FAM46A in ovarian cancer cell lines and patient tissues were determined using Real-time PCR and Western blot and IHC respectively. Functional assays, such as MTT, FACS assay used to determine the oncogenic role of FAM46A in human ovarian cancer progression. Furthermore, western blotting and luciferase assay were used to determine the mechanism of FAM46A promotes chemoresistance in ovarian cancer cells.

Results: In the current study, we found overexpression of FAM46A expression in ovarian cancer patients demonstrated an aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis. Furthermore, FAM46A overexpression in ovarian cancer cells demonstrated higher CDDP resistance ability; however, inhibition of FAM46A sensitized ovarian cancer cell lines to CDDP cytotoxicity both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanically, upregulation of FAM46A activated transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/Smad signaling and upregulated the levels of nuclear Smad2.

Conclusions: Taken together, our results highlight the important oncogenic role of FAM46A in ovarian cancer progression and might provide a potential clinical target for patients with chemoresistant ovarian cancer.

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Oncology

FAM46A

Chemo-resistance

Ovarian cancer

TGF-β signaling pathway

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the sixth most common cancer in women globally and the eighth common cause of cancer death, with overall 5-year survival rate below 45%(Chang and Bristow, 2015, Torre et al. , 2015, Wright et al. , 2015). Although the advances in detection and therapeutics of ovarian cancer, it still represents the most dangerous gynecologic malignancy in women of low and middle income countries(Stewart et al. , 2019). The recommended management for OC is cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum–paclitaxel combination chemotherapy currently; however, more than half of advanced ovarian cancer patients experience chemo-resistance and ultimately bearded tumor relapse and ultimately die of the disease(Menon and Jacobs, 2001, Nash and Menon, 2020). It is an urgent need to clarify the mechanisms underlying chemo-resistance and tumor relapse of ovarian cancer to improve clinical outcomes.

Drug resistance is a complex event which leading to cell tolerance and failure in response to one or multiple clinical pharmaceutical agents(Housman et al. , 2014, Zahreddine and Borden, 2013) . Ovarian carcinoma is the most lethal malignancy among women worldwide mainly due to late diagnosis, metastasis within the peritoneal cavity and resistance to chemotherapy(Beaufort et al. , 2014, Kellenberger et al. , 2010, Sankaranarayanan and Ferlay, 2006). Up to now, the mechanisms of chemo-resistance was classified into two categories, including de novo (intrinsic) and acquired (extrinsic)(Norouzi-Barough et al. , 2018), however, the detailed mechanism of chemo-resistance in ovarian cancer is yet to be understood completely. The TGF-β signaling pathway is a key developmental pathway and it has been reported to play important role in chemo-resistance(Fang et al. , 2015, Futakuchi et al. , 2019, Wang et al. , 2019). For instance, it has been reported that overexpression of FAM83A enhances cancer stem cell-like traits and chemoresistance of pancreatic cancer cells by activating TGF-β signaling pathway(Chen et al. , 2017b). Moreover, Park and colleagues reported that TGF-β1 and hypoxia-dependent expression of MKP-1 leads tumor resistance to death receptor-mediated cell death in tumors(Park et al. , 2013). The above studies suggest that TGF-β signaling play an important role in cancer progression and inhibition smad2 signaling may prevent recurrence and chemo-resistance in ovarian cancer. Therefore, the discovery of novel molecules capable of regulating aberrant activation of the TGF-β signaling pathway may facilitate the treatment of chemo-resistant in ovarian cancer.

Family with sequence similarity 46, member A (FAM46A), location in Chromosome 6 open reading frame 37, was originally identified in the diffuse panbronchiolitis critical region of the class I human MHC(Matsuzaka et al. , 2002). It has been reported that deregulation of FAM46A was association with hemoglobinization, ectoderm differentiation, bone abnormalities and carcinogenesis(Diener et al. , 2016, Etokebe et al. , 2015, Lin et al. , 2020, Watanabe et al. , 2018). However, there are still no reports about the biological effects and molecular mechanisms of FAM46A proteins in ovarian cancer chemo-resistant.

Cell culture.

The ovarian cancer cell lines SKOV3, A2780 was purchased from The European Collection of Authenticated Cell Cultures (ECACC), were grown in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Invitrogen), at 37°C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere in a humidified incubator. The CDDP resistant cell line A2780/cis was grown in 10% FBS RPMI 1640 (2mM Glutamine + 1µM cisplatin), at 37°C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere in a humidified incubator. All cell lines were authenticated by short tandem repeat (STR) fingerprinting.

Patient information and tissue specimens.

A total of184 paraffin-embedded and archived ovarian cancer samples were examined in this study. Clinical information on the samples is summarized in Supplementary Table 1. All tums were staged according to the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics standards (FIGO). Ten freshly collected ovarian cancer tissues were frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen until further use. Prior patient consent and approval from the Institutional Research Ethics Committee were obtained for the use of these clinical materials for research purposes.

Vectors, retroviral infection and transfection.

The human FAM46A gene was PCR-amplified from cDNA and cloned into pMSCV retroviral vector (Clontech, Mountain View, CA). ShRNAs targeting FAM46A were cloned into the pSuper-retro viral vector. Transfection of plasmids was performed using the Lipofectamine 3000 reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) according to the manufacturer’s instruction. Stable cell lines expressing FAM46A and FAM46A shRNA(s) were generated via retroviral infection using HEK293T cells as previously described and selected with 0.5 μg/ml puromycin for 10 days.

Western blotting (WB) analysis. WB was performed using anti-FAM46A antibody (Abcam), anti-p-Smad2 (Ser465/467), total Smad2 and anti-β-catenin antibodies, anti-cleaved caspase 3, anti- cleaved PARP antibodies (Cell Signaling). The blotting membranes were stripped and re-probed with an anti-α-tubulin antibody as a protein loading control (Sigma).

Xenografted tumor model, IHC, and H&E staining.

In the intraperitoneal tumor model, the BALB/c nude mice were randomly divided into four groups (n = 5/group). Four groups of mice were inoculated intraperitoneal with 2×10⁶ A2780-Vector, A2780- FAM46A, A2780-cis/shRNA-Vector, A2780-cis/ FAM46A -shRNA#1 cells, respectively treated with CDDP (5 mg/kg) every 4 days for 35 days. Tumors were detected by an IVIS imaging system twice a week. Survival was evaluated from the first day of treatment initiation until death and tumors were excised and paraffin-embedded. Apoptotic index was measured by percentage of TUNEL-positive and active caspase 3-positive cells.

Cytotoxicity assay.

The sensitivity to cisplatin of ovarian cancer cells was determined using the MTT assay. Briefly, 2 × 10³ cells were seeded onto 96-well plates and incubated at 37°C overnight. Cells were then transfected with different concentrations of cisplatin (0-200 μM). After incubation for 72 hours, 50 μl of the MTT solution (0.15%) was added to each well, and the plates were further incubated for 2 hours. One hundred microliters of DMSO was added to solubilize the MTT formazan product. Absorbance at 540 nm was measured with a Falcon microplate reader (BD-Labware). Dose-response curves were plotted on a semilog scale as the percentage of the control cell number, which was obtained from the sample with no drug exposure. IC50 was determined by the intersection of the cisplatin concentration and the midpoint of the 570-nm reading.

Apoptosis assay.

For evaluation of apoptosis, PE Annexin V Apoptosis Detection Kit I (BD Pharmingen) was used. Briefly, 1×10⁶ ovarian cancer cells were plated in 10-cm plates and incubated for 24 hours. Treatment was started with cisplatin (10 μM) for 24 hours. Cell morphology was assessed by phase-contrast microscopy. Then, cells were removed from plate by trypsin-EDTA, washed twice with PBS, and resuspended with binding buffer at 10⁶ cells/ml. FITC Annexin V and propidium iodide were added (each at 5 μl/10⁵ cells). Cells were incubated for 15 minutes at room temperature in the dark. Percentage of apoptosis was analyzed with an EPICS XL flow cytometer (Beckman-Coulter). Each sample was analyzed in triplicate.

Transient Luciferase Assay

Cells (1x10⁴) were seeded in triplicate in 48-well plates and allowed to settle for 24 h. For each transfection, one hundred nanograms of luciferase reporter plasmids pGL-3-FAM46A or vector and 5 ng of pRL-TK, expressing Renilla luciferase as an internal control, were transfected into cells using the Lipofectamine 3000 reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s instruction. 48h after transfection, cells were harvested and Luciferase and renilla signals were measured using the Dual Luciferase Reporter Assay Kit (Promega) according to a protocol provided by the manufacturer. The luciferase activity was normalized by the Renilla luciferase activity of each transfection to normalize the transfection efficiency. Three independent experiments were performed, and the data are presented as mean ± SD.

Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Extraction assay. Nuclear fractions were prepared by using the nuclear extraction kit (Active Motif, Carlsbad, CA). Briefly, after drug treatment, cells were pelleted and lysed by vigorous vortex in hypotonic buffer for 15 min. The samples were then centrifuged at 14,000 × g for 1 min; the supernatant was considered cytoplasmic. Insoluble pellets were further lysed in complete lysis buffer for 30 min, and nuclear extracts (supernatant) were collected after a 10-min centrifugation at 14,000 × g. Both cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions were quantified and subjected to Western blot analysis.

Chemical reagents. Cisplatin (Sigma, Saint Louis, MO) were dissolved in PBS with concentration of 50 uM. TGF-β inhibitor (LY2109761) were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Dallas, TX).

Statistical analysis. Statistical tests for data analysis included Fisher’s exact test, log-rank test, Chi-square test, and Student’s 2-tailed t test. Multivariate statistical analysis was performed using a Cox regression model. Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS 21.0 statistical software package. Data represent mean ± SD. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Microarray data process and visualization.

Microarray data were downloaded from the GEO database: (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/).

GSEA was performed using GSEA 2.0.9 :( http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsea/).

FAM46A was overexpression in chemo-resistance ovarian cancer tissues.

By analyzing the multiple published mRNA expression profiles (GSE 18520, GSE 13525, GSE 73935) obtained from NCBI, (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/), we found that the expression of FAM46A mRNA was not only upregulated in ovarian cancer tissues compared with normal tissues (Figure 1A), but also significantly upregulated in CDDP-resistance ovarian cancer cell lines (Figure 1B-C). Further analysis of Kaplan-Meier plotter-Ovarian cancer datasets showed that ovarian cancer patients with higher FAM46A expression had a shorter survival time and demonstrated an earlier relapse survival time (P < 0.05; Figure 1C). Consistently, western blotting analyses revealed that FAM46A was markedly overexpressed in all four chemo-resistance ovarian cancer tissues, compared with chemo-sensity ovarian cancer tissues (Figure 1E).

To determine the clinical relevance of FAM46A in ovarian cancer, FAM46A expression was examined in 184 paraffin-embedded, archived ovarian cancer tissues by IHC assay. As showed in Figure 1F and Supplementary Table 1-2, FAM46A levels were correlated with the FIGO stage (P = 0.001), and differentiation-state (P = 0.009) in patients with ovarian cancer. The increased expression of FAM46A was detected in chemo-resistance ovarian cancer tissue samples, but not chemo-sensity ovarian cancer tissue samples (Figure 1F). Importantly, statistical analysis showed that ovarian cancer patients with high FAM46A expression had significantly worse overall and disease-free survival than those with low FAM46A expression (Figure 1G and Supplementary Table 3-4). These results suggest that FAM46A was overexpression in chemo-resistance ovarian cancer tissues and FAM46A may has potential clinical value as a predictive biomarker for disease outcome in ovarian cancer.

Upregulation of FAM46A contributes cytotoxicity of ovarian cancer cells in vitro.

Upon analyzing TCGA-ovarian cancer dataset via the Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) approach, we found a remarkable overlap between high expression profile of FAM46A and cisplatin resistance gene signatures (Figure 2A), suggesting that FAM46A might be involved in regulation of ovarian cancer cisplatin resistance. To investigate the chemo-resistance role of FAM46A in ovarian cancer, SKOV3 and A2780 that stably expressed FAM46A cell lines were established (Figure 2B). IC50 assay demonstrated that overexpression of FAM46A were resistant to cisplatin than vector-transfected cells (SKOV3:IC50 values were 6.87, and 17.85 μM, respectively; A2780:IC50 values were 4.91, and 21.81 μM, respectively; P < 0.01) (Figure 2C). Furthermore, the Annexin V assay show that the percentage of apoptotic cells in FAM46A-overexpression ovarian cancer cells treated with CDDP was much lower compared than that in control cells (Figure 2D). The protein level of cleaved caspase 3 and cleaved PARP, the apoptosis relative gene, was significantly decrease in FAM46A overexpression ovarian cancer cells compared with that in control cells (Figure 2E). The above results indicating that deregulation of FAM46A is involved in CDDP resistance of ovarian cancer cells.

Silencing FAM46A inhibits ovarian cancer CDDP resistance in vitro

In agreement with gain of function of FAM46A in ovarian cancer CDDP resistance, silencing FAM46A in SKOV3 and A2780/Cis cell lines significantly decreased the IC50 of CDDP and increase the percentage of apoptotic cells (Figure 3A-C). The protein level of cleaved caspase 3 and cleaved PARP was significantly increase in FAM46A repression ovarian cancer cells compared with that in control cells (Figure 3D).

Upregulation of FAM46A confers CDDP resistance in ovarian cancer in vivo.

It has been reported that cancer recurrence is mainly attributed to chemo-resistance. Next, we determined whether deregulation of FAM46A expression was effective in intraperitoneal tumor growth in vivo. Nude mice were intraperitonealy inoculated with A2780/Vector and A2780/FAM46A; A2780/cis, A2780/cis/FAM46A shRNA respectively, mouse were treated with CDDP when the treatment with drugs started as soon as the tumor became palpable. As shown in Figure 4A-B, treatment with FAM46A-shRNA plus cisplatin resulted in a significantly reduction, but overexpression FAM46A resulted in a significantly increase in tumor growth compared with that in the control group. Consistently, analyzing in an in vivo intraperitoneal mice model showed that genetically engineered FAM46A conferred great resistance to chemotherapy-induced apoptosis on intraperitoneal growth of A2780 cell, as determined by proportion of TUNEL⁺-cells, active caspase 3 cells compared with that in the control group (Figure 4C). However, silencing FAM46A via FAM46A -shRNA enhance the cytotoxic effect of CDDP on ovarian cancer cells, which resulted in remission tumor progression and increased TUNEL⁺-cells, active caspase 3 cells compared with that in the control group (Figure 4C). Therefore, these results demonstrated that overexpression of FAM46A contributes to ovarian cancer chemo-resistance in vivo.

Upregulation of FAM46A activates the TGF-β signaling pathways in ovarian cancer.

To explore the mechanism underlying the effect of FAM46A on promotion of ovarian cancer chemo-resistance traits, GSEA was performed in TCGA dataset in ovarian cancer. We found that FAM46A expression was significantly correlated with activated gene signatures of TGF-β/Smad pathways (Figure 5A), suggesting that TGF-β/Smad pathways might contribute to the chemo-resistance effect of FAM46A on ovarian cancer. As expected, overexpressing FAM46A significantly enhanced, whereas silencing FAM83A reduced, the activities of TGF-β-driven luciferase reporters (Figure 5B). Meanwhile, the expression of phosphorylated-Smad2 (p-Smad2, Ser465/467) was drastically elevated in FAM46A-transduced cells but decreased in FAM46A-silenced cells (Figure 5C). Furthermore, overexpressing FAM46A significantly enhanced, whereas silencing FAM46A reduced the expression of numerous downstream genes of TGF-β pathway (Figure 5D). These results suggesting that FAM46A plays an important role in activating the TGF-β signaling pathway in ovarian cancer.

Clinical relevance of FAM46A- induced TGF-β activation in human ovarian cancer.

Importantly, inhibition of TGF-β/Smad signaling upon TGF-β inhibitor treatment significantly increased the IC50 and the percentage of apoptotic cells in FAM46A-transduced cells (Figure 6A), demonstrating that TGF-β/Smad pathways are functional effectors for chemo-resiatance effect of FAM46A on ovarian cancer. Consistently, FAM46A levels were positively correlated with p-Smad2 expression (r = 0.63; P < 0.05) in 10 freshly collected clinical ovarian cancer samples, further suggesting that FAM46A expression was clinically correlated with activities of TGF-β/Smad pathways in ovarian cancer (Figure 6B).

In the current study we provide evidence of the potential oncogenic role of FAM46A in ovarian cancer progression and the effect of FAM46A on ovarian cancer chemoresistance. We demonstrated that FAM46A was substantially overexpressed in chemo-resistance ovarian cancer and promoted cancer cell chemoresistance through activation of TGF-β pathways. Hence, our results uncover a novel biological effects and molecular mechanisms of FAM46A proteins in ovarian cancer chemo-resistant and suggest a potential therapeutic target in ovarian cancer.

Numerous studies reported that multiple signaling pathways, such as TGF-β signaling pathways contributed to chemo-resistance of cancer cells. It has been reported that activation of TGF-β pathway promotes tumor heterogeneity in the tumor-initiating cells and leading to drug resistance and tumor recurrence in squamous cell carcinoma(Oshimori et al. , 2015). Tripathi et al. also reported that TGF-β-induced alternative splicing of TAK1 promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and drug resistance(Tripathi et al. , 2019). Furthermore, Xu and colleagues shown that TGF-β plays a vital role in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) epirubicin-resistance through regulating stemness, EMT and apoptosis(Xu et al. , 2018). However, inhibition of TGF-β pathway by pharmacological inhibitors can decrease the glioma-initiating cells (GICs) population and reduce the capacity of GICs to initiate tumors(Anido et al. , 2010), and suppressed TGF-β signaling can reverses metastasis and chemoresistance of highly malignant NSCLC cells(Cai et al. , 2017), suggesting that TGF-β signaling is a key regulator of chemoresistance and targeting TGF-β signaling make it a challenging target and imply the need for careful therapeutic in cancer.

Our results showed that the overexpression of FAM46A ovarian cancer contributed to caner cisplatin resistance. However, the mechanism of FAM46A overexpression in ovarian cancer remain unclear. Interestingly, we found that FAM46A exhibited amplification rate of 21.2% in ovarian cancer according to copy number variation analysis of TCGA datasets (https://www.cureline.com/the-cancer-genome-atlas.html), suggesting that the overexpression of FAM46A in ovarian cancer is associated with genomic amplification. Furthermore, analysis of the FAM46A promoter region using the rVISTA program (http://rvista.dcode.org/) predicted three typical NF-κB-responsive elements and two typical STAT3-responsive elements (SRE). It has been previously reported that NF-κB(Ozes et al. , 2016) and STAT3 signaling(Chen et al. , 2017a) play important roles in progression and development of ovarian cancer. Thus, it would be of great interest to further investigate whether upregulation of FAM46A in ovarian cancer chemo-resistance is attributed to NF-κB and/or STAT3-mediated transcriptional upregulation.

Summarily, our study provides key evidence to support that FAM46A overexpression was involved in ovarian cancer progression and chemoresistance. Expounding the precise role of FAM46A in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer and molecular mechanism of FAM46A in activation of the TGF-β signaling pathways would increase our knowledge of the biological basis of cancer progression and may also allow the development of new therapeutic strategies against ovarian cancer chemoresistance.

OC: Ovarian cancer

FAM46A : Family with sequence similarity 46 member A

TGF-β: transforming growth factor-β

GSEA: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis

STR：short tandem repeat

FIGO ：Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics standards

Ethics approval and consent to participate

This study was supported by the ethics committee of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital & Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences (Guangzhou, China).

Consent for publication

Written informed consent for publication was obtained from all participant.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by The Natural Science Foundation of China (NO:81772764) and Guangzhou Science and Technology Planning Project (NO: 201605131229306)

Authors’ contributions

SYL, YYL, JHH, SYH conceived and designed all the experiments; SYL, YYL, JHH LL performed the in vitro and in vivo assay; TG established the expressing plasmid, and conducted luciferase assay. SYL, YYL, JHH, SYH rote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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