Aspirin mediates histone methylation that inhibits inflammation-related stemness gene expression to diminish cancer stem
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(2020) 11:370
RESEARCH
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Aspirin mediates histone methylation that inhibits inflammation-related stemness gene expression to diminish cancer stemness via COX-independent manner Xiaoyuan Zhang1, Renle Du2, Na Luo2, Rong Xiang2,3 and Wenzhi Shen1*
Abstract Background: The widely recognized anti-cancer potential of aspirin has created a broad interest to explore the clinical benefits of aspirin in cancer therapy. However, the current understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the anti-cancer potential of aspirin remains limited. Methods: Cancer stemness assays which contained ALDH, side population, chemo-resistance, sphere formation, and tumorigenesis were performed to validate aspirin function in vitro and in vivo. Histone modification assay was performed to check the effect of aspirin on histone methylation as well as the activity of HDAC and KDM6A/B. Inhibitor in vivo assay was performed to evaluate therapeutic effects of various inhibitor combination manners. Results: In regards to in vitro studies, aspirin diminishes cancer cell stemness properties which include reducing the ALDH+ subpopulation, side population, chemo-resistance, and sphere formation in three cancer types. In regards to in vivo studies, aspirin decreases tumor growth and metastasis and prolongs survival. In addition, our results showed that aspirin inhibits inflammation-related stemness gene expression (especially ICAM3) identified by a highthroughput siRNA platform. In regards to the underlying molecular mechanism of action, aspirin reduces histone demethylase (KDM6A/B) expression that mediates histone methylation and suppresses gene expression via a COXindependent manner. In regards to therapeutic strategies, aspirin combined HDM inhibitors, ICAM3 downstream signaling Src/PI3K inhibitors, or ICAM3 inhibitor Lifitigrast prevents cancer progression in vivo. Conclusions: The aforementioned findings suggest a molecular model that explains how aspirin diminishes cancer cell stemness properties. These findings may provide novel targets for therapeutic strategies involving aspirin in the prevention of cancer progression. Keywords: Aspirin, Histone methylation, Cancer stemness, ICAM3, COX, Therapeutic strategies
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Pathology and Institute of Precision Medicine, Jining Medical University, 133 Hehua Road, Jining 272067, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the
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