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FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.672693
Keywords
ultra-high dose rate irradiation; FLASH; DNA damage; lysosome; cancer stem cell; autophagy; apoptosis; necrosis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11875079, 61631001, 119210067]
- National Grand Instrument Project [2019YFF01014402]
- NSFC innovation group project [11921006]
- State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, PKU [NPT2020KFY19, NPT2020KFJ04]
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The study revealed that ultra-high dose rate FLASH-RT has killing effects on both cancer stem cells (CSC) and normal cancer cells, with CSC showing higher resistance compared to normal cancer cells. Additionally, CSC exhibited higher levels of lysosome and autophagy under FLASH irradiation, indicating potential mechanisms for their radio-resistance.
Cancer stem cell (CSC) is thought to be the major cause of radio-resistance and relapse post radiotherapy (RT). Recently ultra-high dose rate FLASH-RT evokes great interest for its decreasing normal tissue damages while maintaining tumor responses compared with conventional dose rate RT. However, the killing effect and mechanism of FLASH irradiation (FLASH-IR) on CSC and normal cancer cell are still unclear. Presently the radiation induced death profile of CSC and normal cancer cell were studied. Cells were irradiated with FLASH-IR (similar to 10(9) Gy/s) at the dose of 6-9 Gy via laser-accelerated nanosecond particles. Then the ratio of apoptosis, pyroptosis and necrosis were determined. The results showed that FLASH-IR can induce apoptosis, pyroptosis and necrosis in both CSC and normal cancer cell with different ratios. And CSC was more resistant to radiation than normal cancer cell under FLASH-IR. Further experiments tracing lysosome and autophagy showed that CSCs had higher levels of lysosome and autophagy. Taken together, our results suggested that the radio-resistance of CSC may associate with the increase of lysosome-mediated autophagy, and the decrease of apoptosis, necrosis and pyroptosis. To our limited knowledge, this is the first report shedding light on the killing effects and death pathways of CSC and normal cancer cell under FLASH-IR. By clarifying the death pathways of CSC and normal cancer cell under FLASH-IR, it may help us improve the understanding of the radio-resistance of CSC and thus help to optimize the future clinical FLASH treatment plan.
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