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ArticleCancers2020

Serial Xenotransplantation in NSG Mice Promotes a Hybrid Epithelial/Mesenchymal Gene Expression Signature and Stemness in Rhabdomyosarcoma Cells.

Jan Skoda, Jakub Neradil, Iva Staniczkova Zambo, Alena Nunukova, Peter Macsek, Karolina Borankova, Viera Dobrotkova, Pavel Nemec, Jaroslav Sterba, Renata Veselska

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Article in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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10 authors.

Jan SkodaDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-9292-8177
Jakub NeradilDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
Iva Staniczkova ZamboInternational Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital, 65691 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-1189-0702
Alena NunukovaDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
Peter MacsekDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
Karolina BorankovaDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
Viera DobrotkovaDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
Pavel NemecDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
Jaroslav SterbaInternational Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital, 65691 Brno, Czech Republic.
Renata VeselskaDepartment of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-0048-9913

Funding

European Regional Development Fund Project ENOCH (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000868)Internal Grant Agency of the Czech Ministry of Healthcare NT13443-4
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serial xenotransplantation of sorted cancer cells in immunodeficient mice remains the most complex test of cancer stem cell (CSC) phenotype. However, we have demonstrated in various sarcomas that putative CSC surface markers fail to identify CSCs, thereby impeding the isolation of CSCs for subsequent analyses. Here, we utilized serial xenotransplantation of unsorted rhabdomyosarcoma cells in NOD/SCID gamma (NSG) mice as a proof-of-principle platform to investigate the molecular signature of CSCs. Indeed, serial xenotransplantation steadily enriched for rhabdomyosarcoma stem-like cells characterized by enhanced aldehyde dehydrogenase activity and increased colony and sphere formation capacity in vitro. Although the expression of core pluripotency factors (SOX2, OCT4, NANOG) and common CSC markers (CD133, ABCG2, nestin) was maintained over the passages in mice, gene expression profiling revealed gradual changes in several stemness regulators and genes linked with undifferentiated myogenic precursors, e.g.,

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cancer stem cellsepithelial/mesenchymal phenotypein vivo tumorigenicity assayrhabdomyosarcomaserial xenotransplantationstem-like statestemness

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PMCPMC7016569

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