期刊
CANCER MEDICINE
卷 9, 期 6, 页码 2122-2133出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.2846
关键词
AXL; circulating tumor cells; epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition; liquid biopsy; lung cancer
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资金
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [15cm0106130h0002, 16cm0106418h0001]
Noninvasive diagnostics using circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are expected to be useful for decision making in precision cancer therapy. AXL, a receptor tyrosine kinase is associated with tumor progression, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and drug resistance, and is a potential therapeutic target. However, the epithelial markers generally used for CTC detection may be not enough to detect AXL-expressing CTCs due to EMT. Here, we evaluated the detection of AXL-expressing CTCs using the mesenchymal marker vimentin with a microcavity array system. To evaluate the recovery of cancer cells, spike-in experiments were performed using cell lines with varying cytokeratin (CK) or vimentin (VM) expression levels. With high CK and low VM-expressing cell lines, PC-9 and HCC827, the recovery rate of AXL-expressing cancer cells was 1%-17% using either CK or VM as markers. Whereas, with low CK and high VM-expressing cell lines, MDA-MB231 and H1299, it was 52%-75% using CK and 72%-88% using VM as a marker. For clinical evaluation, peripheral blood was collected from 20 non-small cell lung cancer patients and CTCs were detected using CK or VM as markers in parallel. Significantly more AXL-expressing single CTCs were detected in VM-positive than CK-positive CTCs (P < .001). Furthermore, CTC clusters were identified only among VM-positive CTCs in 20% of patients. Patients with one or more prior treatments harbored significantly more VM-positive AXL-expressing CTCs, suggesting the involvement of these CTCs in drug resistance. These results indicate the necessity of integrating mesenchymal markers with CTC detection and this should be further evaluated clinically.
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