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CANCER MEDICINE
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 956-967出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.4506
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anti-oxidant response; combination therapy; malignant melanoma; redox homeostasis
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资金
- Gesellschaft fur Forschungsforderung Niederosterreich m.b.H. [LS14-007]
- Austrian Science Fund [P32979]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P32979] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The mechanisms of how NRF2 contributes to melanoma progression are not fully understood, but inhibition of NRF2 has been found to induce an EMT phenotype and increase cell survival after apoptosis induction. Cells lacking NRF2 show increased cell viability after specific treatment, and CD44 expression is crucial for survival upon a certain treatment.
Malignant melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and NRF2 has been proposed as a main regulator of tumor cell malignancy. Still the mechanisms how NRF2 is contributing to melanoma progression are incompletely understood. Here we analyzed the effects of either NRF2 induction or depletion, and we also quantified changes on the whole cell proteome level. Our results showed that inhibition of NRF2 leads to a loss of reactive oxygen species protection, but at the same time to an induction of an epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotype and an up-regulation of the stem cell marker CD44. Additionally, cells devoid of NRF2 showed increased cell viability after treatment with a MYC and a BRAF inhibitor. Importantly, survival upon vemurafenib treatment was dependent on CD44 expression. Finally, analysis of archival melanoma patient samples confirmed a vice versa relationship of NRF2 and CD44 expression. In summary, we recorded changes in the proteome after NRF2 modulation in melanoma cells. Surprisingly, we identified that NRF2 inhibition lead to induction of an EMT phenotype and an increase in survival of cells after apoptosis induction. Therefore, we propose that it is important for future therapies targeting NRF2 to consider blocking EMT promoting pathways in order to achieve efficient tumor therapy.
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