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2024-07-29

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IGF1R signaling induces epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity via ITGAV in cutaneous carcinoma

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-024-03119-3

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Background: Early cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCCs) generally show epithelial differentiation features and good prognosis, whereas advanced cSCCs present mesenchymal traits associated with tumor relapse, metastasis, and poor survival. Currently, the mechanisms involved in cSCC progression are unclear, and the established markers are suboptimal for accurately predicting the clinical course of the disease. Methods: Using a mouse model of cSCC progression, expression microarray analysis, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry assays, we have identified a prognostic biomarker of tumor relapse, which has been evaluated in a cohort of cSCC patient samples. Phosphoproteomic analysis have revealed signaling pathways induced in epithelial plastic cancer cells that promote epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) and tumor progression. These pathways have been validated by genetic and pharmacological inhibition assays. Results: We show that the emergence of epithelial cancer cells expressing integrin alpha V (ITGAV) promotes cSCC progression to a mesenchymal state. Consistently, ITGAV expression allows the identification of patients at risk of cSCC relapse above the currently employed clinical histopathological parameters. We also demonstrate that activation of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF1R) pathway in epithelial cancer cells is necessary to induce EMP and mesenchymal state acquisition in response to tumor microenvironment-derived factors, while promoting ITGAV expression. Likewise, ITGAV knockdown in epithelial plastic cancer cells also blocks EMP acquisition, generating epithelial tumors.ConclusionsOur results demonstrate that ITGAV is a prognostic biomarker of relapse in cSCCs that would allow improved patient stratification. ITGAV also collaborates with IGF1R to induce EMP in epithelial cancer cells and promotes cSCC progression, revealing a potential therapeutic strategy to block the generation of advanced mesenchymal cSCCs.Graphical AbstractDuring cSCC progression, cancer cells evolve from the epithelial to the mesenchymal state, which is associated with poor prognosis. The current investigation reveals that, at intermediate cSCC stages (MD/PD-SCC), epithelial cancer cells activate IGF1R and ITGAV signaling to acquire EMP and progress to the aggressive mesenchymal state in response to TME-derived factors. In addition, ITGAV allows the identification of these epithelial plastic cancer cells and functions as a prognostic biomarker of tumor relapse.

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Càncer de pell, Proteïnes de membrana

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Skin cancer, Membrane proteins

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LOPEZ-CERDA, Marta, LORENZO-SANZ, Laura, DA SILVA-DIZ, Victoria, LLOP, Sandra, PENÍN, Rosa maria, BERMEJO, Josep oriol, DE GOEIJ-DE HAAS, Richard, PIERSMA, Sander r., PHAM, Thang v., JIMENEZ, Connie r., MARTIN-LIBERAL, Juan, MUÑOZ MORUNO, Purificación. IGF1R signaling induces epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity via ITGAV in cutaneous carcinoma. _Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research_. 2024. Vol. 43, núm. 1. [consulta: 31 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1756-9966. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215280]

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