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Characteristics of the PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK pathways involved in the maintenance of self-renewal in lung cancer stem-like cells

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 17, 期 5, 页码 1191-1202

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IVYSPRING INT PUBL
DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.57871

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lung cancer stem-like cells; PI3K; AKT pathway; MAPK; ERK pathway; characteristics; self-renewal

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  1. National Natural Science Youth Fund, China [82003138]
  2. Sichuan Science and Technology Program for key Research and Development, China [2021YFS0226]
  3. Doctoral Research Initiation Fund of Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, China [19077]
  4. University's scientific research project of Southwest Medical University, China [2020ZRQNA019]

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This study established a clinically relevant model for recognizing lung cancer stem cells and investigated the roles of PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK pathways in lung cancer through bioinformatic analysis. Experimentally, it was confirmed that the PI3K/AKT pathway promotes proliferation in lung adenocarcinoma cells, while the MAPK/ERK pathway regulates the proliferation of lung cancer stem cells. These findings highlight the distinct and synergistic roles of oncogenic signaling pathways and stem cell signaling pathways in regulating lung cancer stem cell self-renewal.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide due to its early asymptomatic and late metastasis. While cancer stem cells (CSCs) may play a vital role in oncogenesis and development of lung cancer, mechanisms underlying CSCs self-renewal remain less clear. In the present study, we constructed a clinically relevant CSCs enrichment recognition model and evaluated the potential functions of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathway (PI3K/AKT) and mitogen-activated protein kinases/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK) pathways in lung cancer via bioinformatic analysis, providing the basis for in depth mechanistic inquisition. Experimentally, we confirmed that PI3K/AKT pathway predominantly promotes proliferation through anti-apoptosis in lung adenocarcinoma cells, while MAPK/ERK pathway has an overwhelming superiority in regulating the proliferation in lung CSCs. Further, utilizing stemness score model, LLC-Symmetric Division (LLC-SD) cells and mouse orthotopic lung transplantation model, we elucidated an intricate cross-talk between the oncogenic pathway and the stem cell reprograming pathway that impact stem cell characteristics as well as cancer biology features of lung CSCs both in vitro and in vivo. In summary, our findings uncovered a new insight that PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK pathways as oncogenic signaling pathway and/or stem cell signaling pathway act distinctively and synergistically to regulate lung CSCs self-renewal.

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