Abstract
Background
Tetraspanins CD151, a transmembrane 4 superfamily protein, has been identified participating in the initiation of a variety of cancers. However, the precise function of CD151 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains unclear. Here, we addressed the pro-tumoral role of CD151 in NSCLC by targeting EGFR/ErbB2 which favors tumor proliferation, migration and invasion.
Methods
First, the mRNA expression levels of CD151 in NSCLC tissues and cell lines were measured by RT-PCR. Meanwhile, CD151 and its associated proteins were analyzed by western blotting. The expression levels of CD151 in NSCLC samples and its paired adjacent lung tissues were then verified by Immunohistochemistry. The protein interactions are evaluated by co-immunoprecipitation. Flow cytometry was applied to cell cycle analysis. CCK-8, EdU Incorporation, and clonogenic assays were used to analyze cell viability. Wound healing, transwell migration, and matrigel invasion assays were utilized to assess the motility of tumor cells. To investigate the role of CD151 in vivo, lung carcinoma xenograft mouse model was applied.
Results
High CD151 expression was identified in NSCLC tissues and cell lines, and its high expression was significantly associated with poor prognosis of NSCLC patients. Further, knockdown of CD151 in vitro inhibited tumor proliferation, migration, and invasion. Besides, inoculation of nude mice with CD151-overexpressing tumor cells exhibited substantial tumor proliferation compared to that in control mice which inoculated with vector-transfected tumor cells. Noteworthy, we found that overexpression of CD151 conferred cell migration and invasion by interacting with integrins. We next sought to demonstrate that CD151 regulated downstream signaling pathways via activation of EGFR/ErbB2 in NSCLC cells. Therefore, we infer that CD151 probably affects the sensitivity of NSCLC in response to anti-cancer drugs.
Conclusions
Based on these results, we demonstrated a new mechanism of CD151-mediated tumor progression by targeting EGFR/ErbB2 signaling pathway, by which CD151 promotes NSCLC proliferation, migration, and invasion, which may considered as a potential target of NSCLC treatment.
Supplementary Information
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13046-021-01998-4.
Keywords: CD151, Integrins, EGFR/ErbB2, Proliferation, NSCLC
Background
Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide [1, 2]. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for approximately 85 % of all lung cancers [3]. Although the advancement has been made in surgical procedure and chemical therapies, prognosis of NSCLC remains dismal [4]. Hence, exploring a better understanding of the mechanism underlying NSCLC progression and metastasis is extremely crucial.
Tetraspanins are four-transmembrane-spanning proteins containing short cytoplasmic N- and C-termini and one small and one large extracellular domain, which are highly expressed on cell surface or intracellular vesicle [5]. The most important character of tetraspanins is that they form complexes by interacting with each other and/or other transmembrane proteins, including integrins, RTK (EGFR and c-Met), cytoskeleton and cytosolic signal transduction molecule [6]. Therefore, tetraspanins are considered as regulators of cellular signaling and are often depicted as molecular facilitators [7].
Tetraspanins CD151, a transmembrane 4 superfamily protein, was identified as a positive effector associated with tumor development [8]. Recent studies have shown that CD151 expression was increased in breast, prostate, lung, colon, skin, and other cancers, and elevated CD151 expression was correlated with advanced stage and poor prognosis [9–11]. CD151 regulated laminin-binding integrins and control tumor cell migration and invasion through its effect on their adhesive and signaling functions [12]. While it has been recognized that high expression of CD151 was correlated with high grade and stage of NSCLC [13], the precise mechanism of CD151 in NSCLC is still unknown.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of CD151 in the progression and metastasis of NSCLC. To this end, we detected the expression of CD151 in tumor tissues and its paired adjacent tissues, and then analyzed its correlation with prognosis and pathological parameters. Further, the pro-tumoral effect of CD151 in NSCLC progression and metastasis was validated in vivo and in vitro. All together, our results indicated that CD151 plays an important role in tumor progression and metastasis of NSCLC.
Materials and methods
Cell culture
Human bronchial epithelial (16HBE) cell, human NSCLC cells A549, H1299, SPC-A1, H1650, Calu-3, 95 C, 95D (lung adenocarcinoma cell line) and H460 (giant-cell lung carcinoma cell line) were purchased from the Cell Bank of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). The cells were seeded and grown in RPMI 1640 medium (HyClone, South Logan, UT, USA), with 10 % fetal bovine serum (Gibco, Carlsbad, CA) and l-glutamine and antibiotics (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) at 37 °C in a humidified atmosphere containing 5 % CO2.
NSCLC tissue samples
One hundred and seven paired NSCLC tissues and adjacent noncancerous lung tissues were collected after informed consent from patients in the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University between 2009 and 2015 (approval number/ID of the permission was 2009-157-1). Histological and pathological diagnostics for patients with NSCLC were evaluated according to the Revised International System for Staging Lung Cancer. The patients with NSCLC had received neither chemotherapy nor radiotherapy before tissue sampling. The demographic and clinical characteristics of NSCLC patients were summarized in Additional file 1: Table 1. Tissue samples were frozen rapidly and stored at − 80 °C in an ultra-deep freezer. This study was approved by the Academic Advisory Board of Soochow University (number/ID of the permission was 2009-157-1).
Immunohistochemical assay
Tissue Microarray Matched pairs of NSCLC samples and adjacent lung tissues were used for the construction of tissue microarray (Outdo Biotech, Shanghai, China) as previously described [14]. In brief, the sections were incubated with CD151 antibody (diluted to 1:50; Santacruz, sc-271,216) overnight at 4 °C, and then incubated with the corresponding biotinylated secondary antibodies. The reactions were developed using the DAB Kit (BD Bioscience, San Jose, CA, USA), and the sections were counterstained with hematoxylin.
The CD151 expression levels were determined as bellow: the expression levels for each sample which represented by score (intensity × positive rate), as reported previously [15]. The scoring of immunostaining was evaluated on the basis of staining intensity and percentages of three positively stained areas at random by two pathologists in a double blinded manner. Briefly, the proportion of positive cells in each specimen was quantitatively evaluated and scored as follows: 0, Staining in 0 % of the cells examined; 1, staining in 0.01-10 % of the cells examined; 2, staining in 10.01-50 % of the cells examined; 3, staining in 50.01-75 % of the cells examined; and 4, staining in > 75 % of the cells examined. The staining intensity was graded as follows: 0, No signal; 1, weak; 2, moderate; and 3, strong. The histological score for each section was computed using the following formula: Histological score = proportion score x intensity score. A total score with a possible range of 0–12 was calculated and graded as follows: Negative (-; score, 0), weak (+; score, 1–4), moderate (++; score, 5–8) or strong (+++; score, 9–12). Scores of - and + were considered to indicate low expression levels, whereas scores of + + and +++ were considered to indicate high expression levels.
RNA extraction and quantitative real-time PCR analysis
Total RNA was extracted from cells and tissues using RNAiso Plus (TaKaRa, Osaka, Japan) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Synthesis of cDNA with reverse transcriptase (RT) was performed with Reverse Transcriptase M-MLV (TaKaRa, Osaka, Japan). Primer sequences for mRNA detection are as follows: CD151: 5′-GGGCCACTTGCATGTTCGT-3′ (forward), 5′-CAGGTTCCACTTGAGCTTGTTCAC-3′(reverse); β-actin: 5′-CACAGAGCCTCGCCTTTGCC-3′ (forward), 5′-ACCCATGCCCACCATCACG-3′ (reverse). Real-time PCR analysis was performed using SYBR Premix Ex TaqTM (TaKaRa, Osaka, Japan) and ABI Step One Plus Real-Time PCR system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). Ct values of CD151 mRNA were equilibrated to β-actin, which were used as internal controls. The ΔΔCtmethod was applied to calculated the relative expression.
Generation of stable cell lines overexpressing CD151 and establishment of CD151-silenced stable cell lines
To generate A549 and H1299 cells in which CD151 can stably overexpress, we subcloned a ~ 800 bp coding sequence (GenBank Accession number NM_004357.5) of CD151 into a pGMLV-CMV-MCS-EF1 vector using endonucleases EcoRI and XhoI for expression via Lenti-X lentiviral expression system (Clontech, Mountain View, CA, USA). Then the CD151 expression construct was co-transfected with packaging plasmids into human embryonic kidney 293 T cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen). The empty vector was served as a negative control. Human embryonic kidney 293 T cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium with 10 % fetal bovine serum at 37 °C in a humidified 5 % CO2 incubator for 48 h. After the incubation, the packaged lentiviruses were collected and used to infect A549 and H1299 cells. After 2 days, stable cells were selected with 2 µg/ml of puromycin (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA). The coding sequence region of CD151 was amplified using the following primers: forward, 5′-CCGGAATTCCCAGGATGGGTGAGTTCAAC-3′(EcoRI); reverse, 5′-CCGCTCGAGGGCAG GGTCAGTAGTGCTCC-3′ (XhoI). To establish stable A549 and H1299 cell lines in which CD151 is silenced, two DNA fragments (CD151 shRNA-1, 5′-GCCCTCAAGAGTGACTACATT TCAAGAGAATGTAGTCACTCTTGAGGGTTTTTT-3′; and CD151 shRNA-2, 5′-AGCTCAAG GAGAACCTGAATTCAAGAGATCAGGTTCCTTGAGCTTTTTTT-3′) were subcloned a lentiviral vector pGMLV-SC5 (Genomeditech, Shanghai, China) with endonucleases BamHI and EcoRI. A scrambled sequence (underscored) of CD151 shRNA, which was served as negative control, was as follows: 5′-ATCGACTAGCCACTTAGACTTCAAGAGGTCTAAGTGGCTAGT CGATTTTTTTT-3′. Then, the CD151-silenced construct or negative control was co-transfected with packaging plasmids into human embryonic kidney 293 T cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen). Forty-eight hours later, A549 and H1299 cells were infected with the packaged lentiviruses and cultured for 2 days, and stable cell lines were selected with 2 µg/ml of puromycin.
Antibody and proteome arrays
For the RTK activation study, antibody arrays by Raybio (Catalog: AAH-PRTK-G1) were used according to the manufacturer’s protocol, it is specifically designed for simultaneously identifying the relative levels of phosphorylation of 71 different Human Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs) in cell lysate. In brief, cell lysates from A549 stable cells and control cells were collected and incubated with the blocked Glass Chip for overnight at 4 ℃ with gentle shaking. After development, the laser signals were captured and analyzed using the GenePix 4000B Microarray Scanner (Molecular Devices, CA, United States). For the soluble receptors and related proteins analysis, we used the Proteome ProfilerTMArray (R&D Systems, catalog number ARY012) and processed according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Protein lysates were incubated with the array membrane and pixel densities on developed X-ray film can be collected and analyzed using a transmission mode scanner and image analysis software.
Western blot assay
The tissues and transfected cells were lysed using 1×RIPA buffer with protease inhibitors and phosphatase inhibitors(Apexbio), shaken on ice for 30 min, and centrifuged at 4 °C, 12,000 g for 15 min. The extracted proteins were separated using a 10 % sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylaminde gel electrophoresis(SDS-PAGE) and subsequently transferred to NC membranes (Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). Antibodies employed in the analysis were as follows: anti-CD151 (sc-271216) and anti-EGFR (sc-373746) (Santa Cruz, CA,USA);anti-Integrin α3 (ab242196), anti-Integrin α6 (ab20142), anti-Integrin β1 (ab52971) (Abcam, Cambridge, UK);p-ErbB2 (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA, SAB4300061); anti-p-EGFR (3777), anti-ErbB2 (4290), anti-p-FAK (8556), anti-FAK (13,009), anti-p-AKT (4060), anti-AKT(4691), anti-p-ERK (4370), anti-ERK (4695), anti-p-Src (2101), anti-Src (2109), anti-CyclinD1 (2978), anti-MMP2 (13132), anti-MMP9 (13,667) were all purchased form Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA).Anti-β-actin (CW0096M) and anti-mouse (CW0102) or anti-rabbit (CW0103) secondary antibodies were purchased from Cowin.
Co-immunoprecipitation (co-ip) assay
NSCLC cells were cultured in a 100mm plate to 95– 100 % confluence. Then, the cells in each dish were washed twice with cold phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), collected by scraping, and lysed with 1ml of modified RIPA buffer (Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA) containing protease and phosphatase inhibitor cocktail (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) for 30 min. Cell lysates were collected by centrifugation at 10, 000×g at 4 °C for 30 min. Clear lysates were pre-cleared by the addition of 50 µl of protein G bead slurry and incubated at 4 °C overnight with rotation. Supernatants were transferred to a new Eppendorf tube and incubated with 1 µg of mouse anti-CD151 (Santacruz, sc218216) antibody with rotation overnight in a cold room; this step was followed by an additional incubation for 3–4 h with protein G beads. The beads were washed three times with RIPA buffer and then boiled in 2× SDS protein loading buffer for 5 min. Samples (20 µl) were loaded on SDS-PAGE gels for western blot analysis.
Immunofluorescence staining
Cultured cells were fixed with 4 % paraformaldehyde for 15 min at room temperature, permeablized with triton (0.1 % in TBS) for 30 min and blocked with 5 % BSA in PBS for 1 h at room temperature. Cells were then incubated overnight at 4℃ with anti-CD151 (Santa Cruz, sc218216), anti-ITGα3 (Abcam, Ab242196), anti-p-EGFR (Abcam, ab40815). The corresponding secondary antibodies tagged with Cy3 and FITC were used (1:500, Beyotime Biotechnology). Finally, the samples were incubated in DAPI for 10 min (Life Technologies) for nuclear counterstain. Images were acquired using a Leica SP8 confocal microscope with optimal setting for the fluorescent markers used.
Transfection
A549 and H1299 stable cells were seeded in 6-well plates. When cells had reached 40–60 % confluence, we performed transfection in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions using jetPRIME reagent (Invitrogen). Cells were collected at 48–72 h after transfection for further experiments. The ITGA3, ITGA6 and ITGB1 siRNA and corresponding control were purchased from GenePharmacompany (Suzhou, China). The target siRNA sequences were as follows: ITGA3 siRNA: 5′-UUACAGAGACUUUGACCGATT-3′; ITGA6 siRNA: 5′-CAAACAGCUCAUAU UGAUTT-3′; ITGB1 siRNA: 5′-CAGCCCAUUUAGCUAAAAT-3′.
Cell proliferation analysis
Cell proliferation was determined by using the Cell Counting Kit-8 assay kit (Dojindo, Shanghai, China). The A549 and H1299 stable cells were seeded in 96-well plates at 2 × 103 cells per well and further grown in normal culture condition for 24, 48 and 72 h. Cell viability was measured according to manufacturer’s instructions. The experiment was performed in triplicate.
EdU incorporation assay
Cell proliferation also was determined using EdU (5-ethynyl-2-deoxyuridine) assay (Ribobio). Briefly, 3 × 104/mL of A549 and H1299 stable cells were plated in 96-well plates, then after 48 h were exposed to EdU for 2 h. Subsequently, cells were fixed with 4 % formaldehyde 30 min at room temperature. After neutralization with glycine and washing, cells were treated with 0.5 % TritonX-100 for 30 min and reacted with Apollo® reaction cocktail for 30 min. Nuclei were stained with Hoechst 33,342. The EdU-positive cells were visualized under a fluorescent microscope (Olympus) and counted with Image J software.
Cell cycle analysis
According to the instructions of the Cell Cycle Analysis Kit (Beyotime, Shanghai, China), cells were cultured in 6-well plates for 72 h. The cells were then collected, washed with cold phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), fixed in 70 % ethanol at 4 °C for 24 h, washed with cold PBS again and stained in a propidium iodide (PI) / RNaseA mixture. Next, the cells were kept in the dark at 37 °C for 30 min and 10,000 + cells were analyzed per sample using a fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) Caliber system (Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA, USA).
Migration and invasion assays
Transwell inserts in size of 8.0 μm pore (Corning, NewYork, NY, USA) were used for performing cell migration and invasion assays. For migration assay, 800 µl RPMI-1640 medium with 10 %FBS was added into each lower chamber of a transwell insert. Briefly, the stable cells were trypsinized, and then 5 × 104 cells with medium containing 1 % FBS were seeded into the upper chamber and incubated at 37℃ for 24 h in a humidified incubator. Furtherly, the cells migrated onto the lower surface of the insert were fixed with 100 % methanol for 20 min, air-dried for 10 min, stained with 0.1 % crystal violet overnight and washed with 1×PBS for two times. Lastly, the cells were photographed and counted. For invasion assay, the inserts were coated with Matrigel matrix (BD Science, Sparks, MD, USA) diluted in serum-free medium, then incubated at 37℃ for 2 h, remaining procedures were conducted similar to migration assay. Each experiment was performed in triplicate.
Wound healing assay
Seed A549 and H1299 stable cells into 6-well tissue culture plate at a density, then they should reach ~ 70–80 % confluence as a monolayer. The monolayer was gently and slowly scratched using a fresh 10-µl pipette tip across the centre of the well, aiming for a resulting gap distance equal to the outer diameter of the end of the tip. Another scratch was made perpendicular to the first to create a cross in each well. Detached cells were then removed by two gentle washes with 1 × PBS. The well was replenished with fresh medium, and cells were cultured for an additional 24 h. Cells were observed and imaged under a microscope (CKX41, Olympus) at the same magnification and settings. The width of the gap was evaluated quantitatively using Photoshop.
Animal experiments
Female BALB/c athymic nude mice (4–6 weeks old and weighing 16–20 g) were purchased from the Experimental Animal Center of Soochow University and bred under pathogen-free conditions. All the animal experiments were carried out in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Experimental Animals Center of Soochow University. To establish the lung carcinoma xenograft model, 1 × 106 A549/sh-NC, A549/sh-CD151, A549/vector or A549/CD151 cells were suspended in 0.1 ml of RPMI 1640 medium without fetal bovine serum and inoculated subcutaneously into the flanks of nude mice, which were randomly divided into two groups (4 mice in each group). Tumor volume (V) was determined by measuring the length (L) and width (W) with a vernier caliper and applying the following formula: V = (L ×W2) × 0.5.
Statistical analysis
All statistical analyses were performed using Graphpad Prism 7.0 (Graphpad, San Diego, CA, USA) and the SPSS 17.0 software. Data were presented as the mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). The quantitative data were analyzed using an independent-samples t-test for comparison between two groups. Comparisons among three or more than three groups were performed using one-way ANOVA test followed by Bonferroni’s post hoc test. The expression level of CD151 between NSCLC tissues (T) and adjacent noncancerous lung tissues (N) were analyzed using the paired-samples t-test. The survival differences among groups were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method with a log-rank test. Statistical significance was identified with P < 0.05.
Results
CD151 is highly expressed in NSCLC tissues and cell lines and its elevated expression is correlated with poor prognosis
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis was carried out to evaluate CD151 protein level in 150 paired NSCLC tissues. Data showed that increased CD151 expression was detected in 39.3 % NSCLCs (59/150), including 36 % SCCs (27/75) and 46.4 % ADCs (26/56) (Fig. 1a). The summary of patient characteristics and correlation coefficients with CD151 expression are listed in Additional file 1: Table S1. Our data showed that enlarged CD151 expression was significantly associated with T status (P = 0.014), N status (P < 0.001), Clinical stage (P < 0.001) and pathological grade (P = 0.002). Of note, there was no significant correlation between CD151 expression and gender, age or histological characteristics. We further analyzed the prognostic relevance of CD151 expression and overall survival among NSCLC patients. Our data showed that patients with high CD151 expression level was associated with poorer overall survival among 150 NSCLC patients (Fig. 1b), which was consistent with the results in NSCLC subsets, including adenocarcinoma and squamous carcinoma (Fig. 1c, d). RT-PCR analysis also showed up-regulation of CD151 mRNA expression in 107 paired NSCLC tissues compared to adjacent tissues (Fig. 1f). Of note, there was no significant differences found in CD151 mRNA level in terms of patients’ age, gender, smoking habits, degree of differentiation, TNM stage and lymph node infiltration; however, significant differences were observed in terms of histological characteristics and distant metastasis (Additional file 2: Table S2). Consistently, we also found that CD151 was up-regulated in NSCLC cell lines in both mRNA and protein level (Fig. 1e). Collectively, our data indicated the clinical significance of CD151 which may play an important role in NSCLC carcinogenesis.
Knockdown of CD151 inhibits NSCLC cells proliferation, migration and invasion in vitro
To determine the role of CD151 in NSCLC, two NSCLC cell lines A549 and H1299 were chosen to construct stable CD151 knockdown cell lines. CD151 expression was significantly down-regulated in both mRNA and protein level after the stable transfection with two distinct short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) individually (Fig. 2a). Next, CCK-8 and clonogenic assays were applied to show that CD151 knockdown can inhibit cell proliferation (Fig. 2b, c). We also confirmed the findings via EdU assay (Fig. 2d). Additionally, cell numbers in S phase were reduced accompanied by increased cell numbers in G0/G1 phase in CD151 knockdown cell lines, implying that CD151 may affect cell proliferation via regulating cell cycle (Additional file3: Fig. S1). We further assessed the role of CD151 in regulating cell migration and invasion. Wound healing assay confirmed that the migratory ability was suppressed in both A549 and H1299 cells after silencing CD151 expression (Fig. 2e). Transwell assay showed less cells were migrated through the inserts in the presence of intrinsic CD151 knockdown (Fig. 2f).
CD151 overexpression promotes NSCLC cells proliferation, migration and invasion
Besides loss-of-function experiments, we also assessed CD151 overexpression in regulating NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion. CD151 expression was confirmed to be significantly up-regulated via RT-PCR and western blot assay (Fig. 3a). We demonstrated that CD151 overexpression promotes cell proliferation via CCK-8 and clonogenic assays (Fig. 3b, c). EdU assay showed that the percentage of EdU positive cells is higher in CD151 overexpressed group compared to control group (Fig. 3e). The cell cycle assay confirmed that increased cell number was observed in S phase along with decreased cell number in G0/G1 phase in CD151 overexpressed cell lines (Fig. 3d). In addition, data from wound healing assay and transwell assay showed that CD151 overexpression enhanced the ability of cell migration and invasion (Fig. 3f, g). All above findings showed that CD151 promotes NSCLC cell proliferation, partially through regulating cell cycle, as well as migration and invasion.
CD151 and Integrin α3β1 were highly correlated
CD151 has been suggested to regulate cell adhesion through its association with laminin-binding integrins; however, its precise function in NSCLC remains unclarified. To further investigate mechanisms, we analyzed cell adhension-associated proteomes and secretomes in both CD151 knockdown and overexpression cell lines using Proteome Profiler Array. The immunoblot membranes and quantified expression levels of proteomes and secretomes are showed in Fig. 4a and b, antibody map and related data were provided in Additional file 4: Fig. S2, Additional file 5: Fig. S3a, 3b, Additional file 6: Table S3(Part N and Part C). Data obtained from TCGA database (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/) were analyzed to explore the correlation between CD151 and integrin α3/α6/β1 mRNA levels in 103 normal tissues and 999 NSCLC tissues (Additional file 7: Fig. S4a-c) and 188 lung cancer cell lines (Additional file 7: Fig. S4d-f). Extracted data showed that integrin α family members were significantly changed through either CD151 knockdown or overexpression. On the contrary, the integrin β members were not changed. Consistently, western blot analysis confirmed these findings (Fig. 4c). We further investigated complexes of CD151 and integrins or p-EGFR using co-immunoprecipitation, the results showed that CD151 directly bound to integrin α3 in NSCLC (Fig. 4d), however, the combination of CD151 and integrin α6/β1 were likely to be indirected (Fig. 4d and Additional file 7: Fig. S4h). Indeed, there was a study reported integrin α3/β1–CD151 complex can regulate dimerization of ErbB2, but not integrin α6/β1–CD151 complex [16]. Data from CPTA database (https://cptac-data-portal.georgetown.edu/cptacPublic/) also confirmed the correlation of CD151 and integrin (Fig. 4e). Based on the above, we proved that interfering CD151 reduced the expression of integrin α3 (Fig. 4f). All above findings showed that CD151 and integrin α3/β1 are related.
CD151 promotes NSCLC proliferation and metastasis via activating EGFR and ErbB2 signaling pathways
To clarify the mechanism underlying CD151-mediated cell proliferation and metastasis, GO analysis, first of all, indicated that the PI3K-Akt and EGFR signaling pathways are important in CD151-mediated NSCLC cell proliferation, metastasis which is consistent with our results (Fig. 5a). Then, we exported non-small cell lung cancer mRNA expression data from TCGA database, and performed co-expression analysis with CD151 and ITGA3 co-expression coefficient of 0.3, P < 0.05, and input the selected genes into FunRich software (version 3.1.3) for functional analysis, it can be seen that most of the genes are clustered in EGFR related pathways (Fig. 5b, c). The Human RTK Phosphorylation Antibody Array G-series1 was also performed (Fig. 5d and e, antibody map provided in Additional file 8: Fig. S5 and Additional file 9: Table S4). The results showed that phosphorylation of EGFR and ErbB2 exhibited the largest fold changes among selected proteins due to CD151 expression manipulation (Fig. 5d, e). We therefore examined the EGFR/ErbB2 pathways as a candidate critical signaling pathway in our study. Western blot assay confirmed that the phosphorylation levels of EGFR and ErbB2 were down-regulated when knocking down CD151 and up-regulated when overexpressing CD151 in NSCLC cells. Sequentially, we showed that the downstream p-FAK, p-Src, p-AKT, p-Erk and the cell cycle associated cyclin D1 were down-regulated, while the total FAK, SRC, AKT and ERK unchanged. Moreover, the expression of MMP2 and MMP9, tumor metastasis-associated molecules, were reduced after silencing CD151 expression (Fig. 6a). By contrast, ectopic expression of CD151 enhanced p-EGFR, p-ErbB2, p-FAK, p-Src, p-AKT, p-Erk, Cyclin D1, MMP2 and MMP9 expression level as indicated above (Fig. 6a). Furthermore, immunofluorescence assays showed that CD151 and p-EGFR were co-expressed, when CD151 were interfered, the expression of p-EGFR were also decreased (Fig. 6b). In order to further illustrate the combination between CD151 and p-EGFR, we used the exogenous EGF in both control and CD151 knockdown cell lines, we found that the protein level of p-EGFR and p-AKT induced by EGF were significantly inhibited by CD151 knockdown (Fig. 6c). Collectively, these results demonstrated a crucial role of EGFR/ErbB2 signaling in CD151-mediated NSCLC cell proliferation and metastasis in vitro.
Integrin signaling is involved in CD151-induced EGFR and ErbB2 pathways activation
Based on the above, we first detected EGFR/ErbB2 and integrins expression levels in various NSCLC cell lines, which were showed in Additional file 7: Fig. S4g. Since it has been reported that integrin β1 was expressed in all histological types of lung cancer cells and increased α3β1 integrin expression in tumor cells mediates tumor proliferation and invasion [17–19]. Then we interfered integrin β1 expression using specific siRNA in CD151-overexpressed cells. As shown in Fig. 7a and b, knockdown of integrin β1 inhibited the capability of cell proliferation. However, CD151 overexpression rescued the decreased capability of cell proliferation. We next interfered integrin α3 or β1 expression in CD151 overexpressed cell lines individually, and we found that overexpression of CD151 can increase the expression of integrins, but interfering integrins rescued the increase of downstream phosphorylation protein caused by overexpression of CD151 (Fig. 7c, d). Indeed, integrins have been reported to control the EGFR signaling pathway and induce EGFR clustering, so we believe that CD151 regulates EGFR signaling pathway by controlling integrins in lung cancer [20, 21].
CD151-EGFR signaling induced tumor growth in murine xenograft model
We then extended our study to murine subcutaneous xenograft models in vivo. We first used the sh-CD151-2 shRNA in vivo which exhibited robust knockdown efficiency in CD151 expression. Lung carcinoma xenograft mice were sacrificed after 6 weeks since inoculated with cancer cell line. As shown in Fig. 8a and b, the tumor weight and tumor volume were both decreased in CD151 knockdown group. Tissues resected from the xenograft tumors were analyzed for CD151 mRNA expression measurement (Fig. 8c). Consistently, p-EGFR and p-AKT levels were both decreased in CD151 knockdown tumors (Fig. 8d). On the other hand, overexpression of CD151 promoted tumor growth as evidenced by increased tumor volume and tumor weight (Fig. 8e, f). Both the mRNA and protein level of CD151 were increased in xenograft tumors (Fig. 8 g, h). Furthermore, we found that phosphorylation levels of EGFR and AKT were increased in CD151 overexpressed group (Fig. 8i). Collectively, these results demonstrated a crucial role of EGFR/ErbB2 signaling in CD151-mediated NSCLC cell proliferation in vivo.
NSCLC cell growth inhibition induced by Gefitinib, Lapatinib, and VS6063 treatment is reversed by overexpression of CD151
Given the role of EGFR, ErbB2 and FAK signaling pathways in CD151-mediated NSCLC carcinogenesis, vector or CD151 transfected A549 and H1299 cells were treated with Gefitinib (EGFR-TKI inhibitor), Lapatinib (ErbB2 inhibitor) and VS6063 (FAK inhibitor) separately. These three inhibitors have been reported to inhibit proliferation of NSCLC separately [22–24]. Cell viability was assessed at 48 h after drug treatment. The results showed that overexpression of CD151 significantly reduced the sensitivity of cell lines to inhibitors (Additional file 10: Fig S6). Further, we assessed if cells are more sensitive to these inhibitors after CD151 knockdown (Additional file 11: Fig S7). Western blot assay showed that the phosphorylation levels of EGFR and downstream FAK, AKT and Erk expression level were markedly reduced compared with that in CD151 overexpressed cells in Gefitinib treatment group. In line with Gefitinib treatment, Lapatinib resulted in a large decrease of p-ErbB2, p-FAK, p-AKT and p-Erk levels in the control group over that in CD151 overexpressed cells (Fig. 9a, b). Similar phosphorylation levels of p-FAK and p-AKT were also observed when cells exposed to VS6063 (Fig. 9c). Taken together, the above findings suggested the potential of combinational CD151 knockdown therapy in improving the clinical outcome in NSCLC patients (Fig. 9d).
Discussion
In this study, we demonstrated that CD151 plays an important role in NSCLC progression, and elevated CD151 expression indicates poor prognosis of NSCLC patients. Then we found that CD151, through binding to integrin α3β1, promotes proliferation, migration and invasion of NSCLC by activating the EGF signaling.
CD151 is involved in cell-to-cell communication, wound healing, platelet aggregation, cell trafficking and tumor progression [9]. In addition, it has been reported that CD151 is highly expressed in many solid tumors, such as breast cancer, gastric cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma [14, 25, 26]. Here, we confirmed the clinical significance of CD151 as an independent prognostic indicator of overall survival (OS) in NSCLC patients. Moreover, high CD151 protein expression retained significant prognostic prediction value both in ADC and SCC. Previous studies had demonstrated that high CD151 gene expression was significantly associated with decreased OS in Japanese and Korean cancer patients [13, 27]. However, the detailed clinical and prognostic significance of CD151 expression in Chinese NSCLC patients has not been reported yet. Here, we found that elevated CD151 level was substantially associated with increased tumor size, lymph node metastasis and high-grade tumor.
Tetraspanin CD151 plays a vital role in regulating cell adhesion through its association with laminin-binding integrins[28], the CD151-integrin association was critical for signals transduction and was the precondition for some biological effects of CD151[29–31]. Recently several findings suggested that CD151 may act as a core effector in many tumor cell types. CD151 could promotes the proliferation and migration of PC3 cells through the formation of CD151-integrin complex [32]. Moreover, CD151 has been shown to activate RhoA by facilitating integrin α3β1 and Rho controls dimerization of ErbB2, thus promoting motility and metastasis of breast cancer [16]. The involvement of CD151 due to impaired tumor-endothelial interactions was also demonstrated in CD151-knockout mice [33]. It was also reported CD151 can form complexes by interacting with integrins α3β1 and α6β1, which thus affect the biological functions of the liver cancer cells [34]. In the present study, we determined possible associations between various integrins and CD151 in the context of NSCLC, the results showed that CD151 could regulate EGFR/ErbB2 and downstream signaling proteins by interacting with integrin α3β1 complexes. However, the detailed mechanism of CD151-intergrins complex remains to be further explored.
Tetraspanin CD151 has been demonstrated to interact with EGFR/ErbB2, either directly or in conjunction with other integrin adhesion receptors [35–37]. It was reported that CD151-α3β1 integrin complex can interact with EGFR to promote tumor invasion of glioblastoma [38], and integrin-associated CD151 can promote progression and metastasis of tumor mediated by ErbB2 [36]. Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is an important regulator of cell movement, FAK signaling can be activated via phosphorylation upon stimulation by transmembrane integrins and various growth factors, linking to the formation and turnover of focal adhesions, which then phosphorylated and induces downstream pathway signaling [39–41]. Consistently, in this report, we confirmed that CD151 could affect progression of NSCLC by regulating EGFR/ErbB2-FAK/SRC-AKT/ERK signaling pathways. Matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) are a family of zinc endopeptidases that degrade extracellular matrix components [42], such as matrix metalloprotienases-9 (MMP9) and metalloproteinases-2 (MMP-2) can degrade various types of collagen and gelatin [43] which are closely related to the migration and invasion of tumors. In our study, we confirmed that CD151 can affect the expression of MMP2 and MMP9 by regulating EGFR/ErbB2 axis through either knockdown or overexpression of CD151, which further affect the migration and invasion of NSCLC. However, whether CD151-mediated NSCLC migration and invasion is through other independent signaling pathways rather than EGFR/ErbB2 still worth exploring.
EGFR/ErbB2 are members of the epithelial growth factor receptor family, gefitinib and lapatinib are clinically proven effective in targeting NSCLC with EGFR mutation and ErbB2 + breast cancers respectively [44–46]. In this study, A549 and H1299-CD151 overexpressed cells and control cells were treated with either gefitinib or lapatinib, results shown that there were obvious decreases in p-EGFR, p-HerB2, p-FAK, p-AKT and p-Erk levels in the control group over that in CD151 overexpressed cells, so we speculated CD151 knockdown may affect the sensitivity of NSCLC in response to anti-cancer drugs. Consistently, previous studies had showed that CD151 ablation can sensitize multiple tumor cell types to gefitinib by increasing cells apoptosis [47] and disruption of CD151 can sensitize breast cancer cells to ErbB2 inhibitors [46], this findings also confirmed our hypothesis. In addition, we used FAK inhibitor VS6063 and obtained the same results as the experiments above.
Given the role of CD151 in the development of NSCLC, CD151 may considered as a potential target for the clinical treatment of NSCLC. In view of the practical limitations of CD151 gene deletion, the most common method of targeting CD151 is through the application of CD151 monoclonal antibody (clone 9B) which can disrupt the cooperation between CD151 with integrin α6β1 [14]. Taken together, these results are worthwhile for us to further study the role of CD151 in the clinical treatment of NSCLC.
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Acknowledgements
We thank all patients who participated in this study for their cooperation, and Dr. Dongsheng Pei for analysis of immunohistochemical results at Department of Pathology, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Abbreviations
- NSCLC
Non-small cell lung cancer
- EGFR
Epidermal growth factor receptor
- qRT-PCR
Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR
- FAK
Focal adhesion kinase
- MMPs
Matrix metalloproteinase
- EMT
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Authors' contributions
JJZ, TTC, JQZ were responsible for doing the experiments, acquisition of data, and analysis and drafted the manuscript. WWD, YYZ, TL and YLF provided and collected the clinical data. QQ provided language editing assistance to the manuscript. XWY and Qinglin Li provided helpful discussion and reviewed the manuscript. JAH and ZYL were responsible for designing the experiments and supervising the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (81702870 and 81802885 and 82073213), Jiangsu Provincial Medical Youth Talent (No. QNRC2016746), the Suzhou Gusu Medical Youth Talent (GSWS2020016), Science and Technology Plan Project of Suzhou (No. SYS201749), Suzhou Key Laboratory for Respiratory Medicine (No. SZS201617), Clinical Medical Center of Suzhou (No.Szzx201502), Jiangsu Provincial Key Medical Discipline (No. ZDXKB2016007), Medical and health science and technology project in Zhejiang Province (2019ZD024), Natural science research program of Huai’an city (No. HAB201813).
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The study with human NSCLC samples and animals were certified by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University.
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