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AXL Knock-Out in SNU475 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Provides Evidence for Lethal Effect Associated with G2 Arrest and Polyploidization

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms222413247

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AXL; hepatocellular carcinoma; CRISPR-Cas9; gene knock-out; cell cycle arrest; DNA damage; polyploidy

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  1. TUBITAK [117S246]
  2. Turkish Academy of Sciences
  3. Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center

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The study reveals that AXL is highly expressed in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and is closely associated with a mesenchymal phenotype. By using gene knockout and pharmacological inhibition, it was found that loss of AXL leads to drastic phenotypic changes in HCC cells, resulting in loss of tumorigenicity in vivo.
AXL, a member of the TAM family, is a promising therapeutic target due to its elevated expression in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), particularly in association with acquired drug resistance. Previously, RNA interference was used to study its role in cancer, and several phenotypic changes, including attenuated cell proliferation and decreased migration and invasion, have been reported. The mechanism of action of AXL in HCC is elusive. We first studied the AXL expression in HCC cell lines by real-time PCR and western blot and showed its stringent association with a mesenchymal phenotype. We then explored the role of AXL in mesenchymal SNU475 cells by CRISPR-Cas9 mediated gene knock-out. AXL-depleted HCC cells displayed drastic phenotypic changes, including increased DNA damage response, prolongation of doubling time, G2 arrest, and polyploidization in vitro and loss of tumorigenicity in vivo. Pharmacological inhibition of AXL by R428 recapitulated G2 arrest and polyploidy phenotype. These observations strongly suggest that acute loss of AXL in some mesenchymal HCC cells is lethal and points out that its inhibition may represent a druggable vulnerability in AXL-high HCC patients.

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