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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 409, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2021.112910
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Incomplete radiofrequency ablation; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Chemoresistance; Cell pyroptosis; Heat shock protein 70
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Incomplete radiofrequency ablation (iRFA) treatment can increase the proliferation and invasion ability of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, inhibiting cisplatin-induced pyroptosis. The study demonstrated that heat shock protein HSP70 mediated the inhibition of cell pyroptosis, leading to the drug resistance induced by iRFA.
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a common minimally invasive treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Incomplete RFA (iRFA) due to the sub-lethal heat shock challenge of some cell populations leads to the generation of transformed survivor cells with enhanced chemoresistance. However, the underlying mechanism of iRFA on HCCs chemoresistance remains unknown. In the present study, we investigated the effect of iRFA on HCCs sensitivity to cisplatin. Cells treated with the sub-lethal heat shock challenge were used to mimic iRFA treatment in vitro. An orthotopic implantation HCC model was established and also performed iRFA treatment. Flow cytometry, transwell assay, and cell counting kit-8 assay were used to determine the effect of iRFA treatment on cisplatin-induced HCC cell apoptosis, invasion, and cell viability. ELISA and Western blot were used to detect the effect of iRFA treatment on cisplatin-induced HCC cell pyroptosis. We found that iRFA treatment increased the HCC cell proliferation and invasion ability, and inhibited cisplatin-induced pyroptosis. Further experiments showed that iRFA treatment induced upregulation of HSP70, which inhibited the cisplatin-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation, leading to inhibition of pyroptosis. HSP70 knockdown or NLRP3 overexpression could reverse the effect of iRFA treatment in vitro. In vivo, HSP70 knockdown reversed the chemosensitivity of HCC to cisplatin, which was decreased by iRFA. In conclusion, we demonstrated that iRFA induced drug resistance by HSP70-mediated inhibition of cell pyroptosis in HCC.
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