CD133 and CD133‐regulated nucleophosmin linked to 5‐fluorouracil susceptibility in human colon cancer cell line SW620 |
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| Authors: | Kyung‐Hee Kim Byong Chul Yoo Won Ki Kim Jun Pyu Hong Kun Kim Eun Young Song Jae Yong Lee Jae Youl Cho Ja‐Lok Ku |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Colorectal Cancer Branch, Division of Translational and Clinical Research I, Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea;2. Laboratory of Cell Biology, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea;4. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are known to be resistant to conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Specific CSC targeting and eradication is therefore a therapeutically important challenge. CD133 is a colorectal CSC marker with unknown function(s). Assessing proteomic changes induced by CD133 may provide clues not only to new CD133 functions but also to the chemotherapy and radiation susceptibility of colon cancer cells. To identify the proteins affected by CD133, CD133‐positive (CD133+), and CD133‐negative (CD133–) human colon cancer cells were obtained by cell sorting. Whole proteomes were profiled from SW620/CD133+ and SW620/CD133– cells and analyzed by 2D‐based proteome analysis. Nucleophosmin (NPM1) was identified as a protein regulated by CD133. CD133 protein level was not affected by NPM1, and an interaction between the two proteins was not observed. CD133 and NPM1 protein levels were positively correlated in 11 human colon cancer cell lines. The CD133+ subpopulation percentage or its value normalized against CD133 protein level was only linked to intrinsic susceptibility of human colon cancer cells to 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU). However, either suppression of CD133 or NPM1 significantly increased 5‐FU susceptibility of SW620. The present study suggests that CD133‐regulated NPM1 protein level may provide a clue to novel CD133 function(s) linked to human colon cancer cell susceptibility to chemotherapy. |
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| Keywords: | Cancer stem cell CD133 Colon cancer Drug resistance Nucleophosmin |
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