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The endosomal pH regulator NHE9 is a driver of stemness in glioblastoma

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PNAS NEXUS
卷 1, 期 1, 页码 -

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac013

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glioblastoma; Na+/H+ exchanger; endosomes; receptor tyrosine kinase; STAT3

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  1. NIH [R01DK108304]
  2. US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
  3. Mayo Clinic Investigator Award
  4. State of Florida Cancer Research Award [R01 NS070024, F31CA220967]
  5. American Association of Cancer Research-Astra Zeneca Breast Cancer Research Fellowship

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Self-renewing stem cells play a crucial role in tumor initiation and therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma. The endosomal pH regulator NHE9 promotes cell surface expression and phosphorylation of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), leading to the activation of oncogenic signaling pathways and induction of pluripotency genes. Alkalization of the endosomal lumen through the use of chemical agents can bypass NHE9 and induce similar effects.
A small population of self-renewing stem cells initiate tumors and maintain therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma (GBM). Given the limited treatment options and dismal prognosis for this disease, there is urgent need to identify drivers of stem cells that could be druggable targets. Previous work showed that the endosomal pH regulator NHE9 is upregulated in GBM and correlates with worse survival prognosis. Here, we probed for aberrant signaling pathways in patient-derived GBM cells and found that NHE9 increases cell surface expression and phosphorylation of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) by promoting their escape from lysosomal degradation. Downstream of NHE9-mediated receptor activation, oncogenic signaling pathways converged on the JAK2-STAT3 transduction axis to induce pluripotency genes Oct4 and Nanog and suppress markers of glial differentiation. We used both genetic and chemical approaches to query the role of endosomal pH in GBM phenotypes. Loss-of-function mutations in NHE9 that failed to alkalinize endosomal lumen did not increase self-renewal capacity of gliomaspheres in vitro. However, monensin, a chemical mimetic of Na+/H+ exchanger activity, and the H+ pump inhibitor bafilomycin bypassed NHE9 to directly alkalinize the endosomal lumen resulting in stabilization of RTKs and induction of Oct4 and Nanog. Using orthotopic models of primary GBM cells we found that NHE9 increased tumor initiation in vivo. We propose that NHE9 initiates inside-out signaling from the endosomal lumen, distinct from the established effects of cytosolic and extracellular pH on tumorigenesis. Endosomal pH may be an attractive therapeutic target that diminishes stemness in GBM, agnostic of specific receptor subtype.

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