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doi:10.22028/D291-29237
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 |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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