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干细胞和上皮间充质转换标志物在膀胱癌患者循环肿瘤细胞中的共表达
Authors Zhang R, Xia J, Wang Y, Cao M, Jin D, Xue W, Huang Y, Chen H
Received 28 April 2020
Accepted for publication 28 August 2020
Published 22 October 2020 Volume 2020:13 Pages 10739—10748
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S259240
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 3
Editor who approved publication: Dr William Cho
Objective: Cancer cells with stemness and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) features display enhanced malignant and metastatic potential. This study aimed to introduce a new methodology developed in order to investigate the co-expression of a stemness (OCT4) and EMT markers on single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) of patients with localized urinary bladder cancer and their potential prognostic prediction value.
Methods and Materials: Between April 2015 and July 2015, blood samples of 51 consecutive patients diagnosed with high risk bladder cancer (cT1-3N0M0) were prospectively investigated for CTCs. Peripheral blood (5 mL) was drawn before primary transurethral resection. Detection of CTCs was performed using the CanPatrolTM system. Nucleic acid probes were used to identify CTCs, and expression levels of epithelial and mesenchymal genes in CTCs were examined by situ hybridization assay.
Results: All patients received radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph nodes dissection. CTCs were detected in 44 of 51 (86.3%) patients, respectively. The overall mean number of CTCs was 6.1 (range: 0∼ 29; median: 4). A total of 311 CTCs were detected in PB. High OCT4 expression (OCT4high) was detected more frequently in Epi−Mes+ cells (p=0.001). Patients with pathological confirmed muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) had higher Epi−Mes+ CTCs positive rates (p=0.001) and OCT4high CTCs positive rates (p=0.019) than pathological confirmed non muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Regarding co-expression of these markers, Epi−Mes+/OCT4high CTCs were more frequently evident in the MIBC setting (30.4% vs 3.6% of patients, p = 0.016).
Conclusion: A differential expression pattern for these markers was observed both in NMIBC and MIBC disease. A subgroup of CTCs showed a CTCs expressing high OCT4, along with Mes were more frequently detected in patients with MIBC, suggesting that these cells may prevail during tumor muscle invasion and disease progression.
Keywords: circulating tumor cells, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, OCT4, muscle-invasive bladder cancer