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Title: Liquid-phase electron microscopy of molecular drug response in breast cancer cells reveals irresponsive cell subpopulations related to lack of HER2 homodimers
Author(s): Peckys, Diana B.
Korf, Ulrike
Wiemann, Stefan
de Jonge, Niels
Language: English
Title: Molecular Biology of the Cell
Volume: 28
Issue: 23
Startpage: 3193
Endpage: 3202
Publisher/Platform: SSPA
Year of Publication: 2017
Publikation type: Journal Article
Abstract: The development of drug resistance in cancer poses a major clinical problem. An example is human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) overexpressing breast cancer often treated with anti-HER2 antibody therapies, such as trastuzumab. Since drug resistance is rooted mainly in tumor cell heterogeneity, we examined the drug effect in different subpopulations of SKBR3 breast cancer cells, and compared the results with a drug resistant cell line, HCC1954. Correlative light microscopy and liquid-phase scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) were used to quantitatively analyze HER2 responses upon drug binding, whereby many tens of whole cells were imaged. Trastuzumab was found to selectively cross-link and down regulate HER2 homodimers from the plasma membranes of bulk cancer cells. In contrast, HER2 resided mainly as monomers in rare subpopulations of resting- and cancer stem cells (CSCs), and these monomers were not internalized after drug binding. The HER2 distribution was hardly influenced by trastuzumab for the HCC1954 cells. These findings show that resting cells and CSCs are irresponsive to the drug, and thus point towards a molecular explanation behind the origin of drug resistance. This analytical method is broadly applicable to study membrane protein interactions in the intact plasma membrane, while accounting for cell heterogeneity
DOI of the first publication: 10.1091/mbc.e17-06-0381
Link to this record: hdl:20.500.11880/28047
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-29237
ISSN: 1059-1524
1939-4586
Date of registration: 10-Oct-2019
Faculty: NT - Naturwissenschaftlich- Technische Fakultät
Department: NT - Physik
Professorship: NT - Keiner Professur zugeordnet
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