Olga Meiri Chaim, Shunichiro Miki, Briana C Prager, Jianhui Ma, Anthony Y Jeong, Jacqueline Lara, Nancy K Tran, Jeffrey M Smith, Jeremy N Rich, J Silvio Gutkind, Shigeki Miyamoto, Frank B Furnari, Joan Heller Brown
Scientific reports 2023 Dec 16In silico interrogation of glioblastoma (GBM) in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) revealed upregulation of GNA12 (Gα12), encoding the alpha subunit of the heterotrimeric G-protein G12, concomitant with overexpression of multiple G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) that signal through Gα12. Glioma stem cell lines from patient-derived xenografts also showed elevated levels of Gα12. Knockdown (KD) of Gα12 was carried out in two different human GBM stem cell (GSC) lines. Tumors generated in vivo by orthotopic injection of Gα12KD GSC cells showed reduced invasiveness, without apparent changes in tumor size or survival relative to control GSC tumor-bearing mice. Transcriptional profiling of GSC-23 cell tumors revealed significant differences between WT and Gα12KD tumors including reduced expression of genes associated with the extracellular matrix, as well as decreased expression of stem cell genes and increased expression of several proneural genes. Thrombospondin-1 (THBS1), one of the genes most repressed by Gα12 knockdown, was shown to be required for Gα12-mediated cell migration in vitro and for in vivo tumor invasion. Chemogenetic activation of GSC-23 cells harboring a Gα12-coupled DREADD also increased THBS1 expression and in vitro invasion. Collectively, our findings implicate Gα12 signaling in regulation of transcriptional reprogramming that promotes invasiveness, highlighting this as a potential signaling node for therapeutic intervention. © 2023. The Author(s).
Olga Meiri Chaim, Shunichiro Miki, Briana C Prager, Jianhui Ma, Anthony Y Jeong, Jacqueline Lara, Nancy K Tran, Jeffrey M Smith, Jeremy N Rich, J Silvio Gutkind, Shigeki Miyamoto, Frank B Furnari, Joan Heller Brown. Gα12 signaling regulates transcriptional and phenotypic responses that promote glioblastoma tumor invasion. Scientific reports. 2023 Dec 16;13(1):22412
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