CD15 Expression Does Not Identify a Phenotypically or Genetically Distinct Glioblastoma Population.
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Kenney-Herbert, E
Al-Mayhani, T
Piccirillo, SGM
Fowler, J
Spiteri, I
Jones, P
Watts, C
Al-Mayhani, T
Piccirillo, SGM
Fowler, J
Spiteri, I
Jones, P
Watts, C
Document Type
Journal Article
Date
2015-07-01
Date Accepted
2015-02-23
Abstract
UNLABELLED: : Recent research has focused on the hypothesis that the growth and regeneration of glioblastoma (GB) is sustained by a subpopulation of self-renewing stem-like cells. This has led to the prediction that molecular markers for cancer stem cells in GB may provide a treatment target. One candidate marker is CD15: we wanted to determine if CD15 represented a credible stem cell marker in GB. We first demonstrated that CD15-positive (CD15+) cells were less proliferative than their CD15-negative (CD15-) counterparts in 10 patient GB tumors. Next we compared the proliferative activity of CD15+ and CD15- cells in vitro using tumor-initiating primary GB cell lines (TICs) and found no difference in proliferative behavior. Furthermore, TICs sorted for CD15+ and CD15- were not significantly different cytogenetically or in terms of gene expression profile. Sorted single CD15+ and CD15- cells were equally capable of reconstituting a heterogeneous population containing both CD15+ and CD15- cells over time, and both CD15+ and CD15- cells were able to generate tumors in vivo. No difference was found in the phenotypic or genomic behavior of CD15+ cells compared with CD15- cells from the same patient. Moreover, we found that in vitro, cells were able to interconvert between the CD15+ and CD15- states. Our data challenge the utility of CD15 as a cancer stem cell marker. SIGNIFICANCE: The data from this study contribute to the ongoing debate about the role of cancer stem cells in gliomagenesis. Results showed that CD15, a marker previously thought to be a cancer stem-like marker in glioblastoma, could not isolate a phenotypically or genetically distinct population. Moreover, isolated CD15-positive and -negative cells were able to generate mixed populations of glioblastoma cells in vitro.
Citation
Stem cells translational medicine, 2015, 4 (7), pp. 822 - 831
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Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
ISSN
2157-6564
eISSN
2157-6580
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Evolutionary Genomics & Modelling