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Gallbladder cancer stem cell markers: An updated brief review

A.N Srivastava

Director Research, Consulting Professor, Department of Pathology, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, India

E-mail : bhuvaneswari.bibleraaj@uhsm.nhs.uk

Naseem Fatima

Research Assistant, Department of Pathology, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, India

Vijay Kumar

Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

DOI: 10.15761/HCE.1000104

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Abstract

Gallbladder cancer is the most aggressive gastrointestinal tract cancer. It is a leading cause of cancer deaths in north india. The symptoms of gallbladder cancer are non specific, patients are diagnosed at very last stage, as a result, most of the patients die within 6 months of the disease, and hence the average 5-year survival is low to 5%. Cancer stem cell hypothesis provides an important cellular mechanism to understand the abnormal behavior exhibited by the tumors. Therefore, cancer stem cell markers may serve as novel therapeutic targets as well as diagnostic or prognostic markers in gallbladder cancer. In this review, we provide an overview of gallbladder cancer with the aim of concerning the role of cancer stem cell marker in the signaling pathways implicated along with the significant role of cancer stem cell markers in gallbladder cancer.

Key words

gallbladder cancer, gallstone, cancer stem cell markers

Introduction

Gallbladder cancer (GBC), the major type of gastrointestinal cancer, is one of the most common types of malignancy, and ranked as the third leading cause of cancer death in North India (21.5 / 100,000). [1,2]. There are no specific sign and symptoms in the early stage of the disease; therefore it is diagnosed at its advanced stage. Poor prognosis shows low survival. It can be cured only if it is diagnosed before it is spread, and can be removed by surgery. Gallbladder cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells develops in the tissue of gallbladder, later spread to other parts of the body (metastasis where-in cells break away from where they began and travel through lymph system and blood). Gallbladder cancer spreads to the liver; they are actually gallbladder cancer cells. It may also spread to surrounding tissues and organs, through the abdominal cavity or distal part of the body.

Scientists have found several risk factors that make a person more likely to develop gallbladder cancer. Cholecystitis is also now seen often in much younger age group persons in North India. Chronic inflammation and dysplasia have been proposed to explain the association of gallstones and cancer. Besides, several other factors have also been proposed the critically and one of the views is of the presence and activation of Cancer Stem Cells (Figure1).

Figure 1. Risk factors responsible for the activation of cancer stem cells leading to gallbladder cancer progression.

Concepts of stem cells and cancer stem cells

Stem cells play many vital roles in our body, they are long lived, uncommon, mother cells which have ability to self renew. [3] Self renewal, one of the defining characteristics of the stem cells, is a cell division in which one or both of the resulting daughter cells remains undifferentiated, retaining the ability to give rise to another stem cell with the same capacity to proliferate as the parental cell [4] and have the potential to become any type of cell, they can become cells of the blood, heart, bones, skin, muscles, brain etc.[5]. When mutated, they can potentially become cancer stem cells (CSCs). There are two types of stem cells: Pluripotent Stem Cells (PS cells) are the type of stem cells present in embryos that helps babies grows within the womb. Recent research has enabled scientists to derive pluripotent cells from adult human skin cells. These are termed induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells [6]. Fetal stem cells are obtained from tissues of a developing human fetus and are generally obtained after an abortion. These stem cells are not immortal but have a high level of division and are multipotent.  Every organ or tissue in the body contains a small number of cells called Adult stem cells; they ensure a continuous supply of new cells to replace old cells that are destroyed [7].

Role of cancer stem cells in tumorigenesis

Organs develops from stem cells, same as tumors also consists of rapidly proliferating cells and also represent a disparate collection of abnormal cells with dissimilar phenotypes [8]. These abnormal cells are believed to be originated from a self –renewing population that gives rise to discriminatory progenitor cells. Cancer stem cell research hypothesized that the mutation in stem cell niche population during development results in the reproduction of mutated daughter cells, these cells are very much closer to become tumor and their number increase the chance of cancerous mutation.

Today, increasing evidence has con­firmed that the cancers consist of small population of cancer stem cells or tumor initiating cells (TIC) which are considered being responsible for the recurrence of cancer and metastasis. It has been reported by the researchers that the CSCs are present in multiple solid tumors, in breast tumors [9], brain [10], prostate [11], colon cancer [12, 13], lung [14] and HNSCC [15] and therefore it is considered as one of the major cause of death. 

The concept of CSCs is derived from the similarities that exist between normal stem cells and CSCs. The signaling pathways utilized by both normal stem cells and CSCs overlap and are based on embryonic signaling pathways which allow self-renewal. Advancement of knowledge in the concept of Cancer Stem Cells and their encouraging results suggest new directions in the treatment of cancer as they are thought to be responsible for tumor initiation, progression, therapy resistance, relapse and metastasis [16]. The well accepted CSC markers of are CD44, CD24, CD133, CD166 and EpCAM and a few more [17] and most of them are also reported in Gall Bladder Cancer.

Common important cancer stem cell markers of gallbladder cancer

CD24

CD24 is a small cell surface protein, has emerged as a novel prognostic factor in human cancers [18] and is an important marker of malignancy. It is associated with poor prognosis in gall bladder carcinoma. Its expression has been immunohistochemically examined, has been reported as an important prognostic markers in gallbladder cancer along with its positive correlation with tumor histological grading and pT sataging. Furthermore, the CD24 antigen represents an attractive target for specific therapies with monoclonal antibodies in patients with CD24-overexpressing gallbladder carcinoma, so the detection of CD24 may help clinicians select patients likely to benefit from novel molecular therapies [19]. Song et al. have reported that NDRG2 down-regulation or CD24 up-regulation is an important feature of GBC. A combined detection of NDRG2/CD24 co-expression may benefit us in prediction of the prognosis in GBC [20].

CD133

CD133 (also known as Prominin-1 or AC133), a transmembrane pentaspan protein, was initially described as a surface antigen specific for human hematopoietic stem cells [21]. CD133 has been used extensively as a marker for the identification of stem cells from normal and cancerous tissues [22]. The sphere-colony-formation ability and tumorigenicity of CD133+ cells were assayed and reported it could act as a cell surface marker for CSCs in GBC [23].   Chen et al. found that CD133 was significantly up-regulated in GBC tissues. Knockdown of CD133 could inhibit GBC cell migration and invasion. Moreover, knockdown of CD133 led to the inactivation of Akt pathway. Therefore, down-regulation of CD133 inhibits migration of gallbladder carcinoma cells at least partly through reducing Akt phosphorylation. These finding might provide a new insight into gallbladder carcinoma migration [24]. Purified CD133+ gallbladder carcinoma cells are highly resistant to conventional chemotherapy provodes a new mechanism of As2O3- induces cell apoptosis and better understanding of drug resistant in gall bladder carcinoma [25].

CD44

CD44 is an ubiquitous multistructural and multifunctional cell surface adhesion molecule involved in cell–cell and cell– matrix interactions. It is a transmembrane glycoprotein involved in many functions such as cell proliferation, angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis [26]. CD44 was demonstrated as a first cancer stem cell (CSC) marker to measure the stem cell density of different tumors in the clinics [27]. There are several studies which have evaluated CD44 expression in gallbladder and other cancers, using immunohistochemical (IHC), RT-PCR and southern hybridization (SBH) [28]. Cd44v8-10 expression may be a biological marker for prognostic significance in gall bladder cancer [29]. It was reported that CD44 haplotypes plays an important role with reduced risk of GBC [30]. Study demonstrated that CD44 variant overexpression in patients with gallbladder carcinoma has been linked with histologic dedifferentiation rather than Clinicopathologic factors, including prognosis [31].

ALDH

Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) are a family of enzymes, its activity has been employed as a marker of stem-like cells in many cancers [32,33]. ALDH1expression might be closely related to the carcinogenesis, progression, clinical biological behaviours, and prognosis of gallbladder adenocarcinoma [34]. It has been shown that positive ALDH1A3 expression is closely associated with clinical, pathological behavior and poor prognosis of gall bladder cancer [35].

OCT-4

The Oct-4 gene, a POU- (Pit-Oct-Unc-) domain octamer-binding transcription factor, is a key regulator of self-renewal in embryonic stem cells [36] It has been reported that Oct-4 is expressed in human tumors but not in normal somatic tissues [37]. Oct-4 is correlated with decreased survival and might serve as important biological marker for reflecting the carcinogenesis, progression, metastasis, or invasion potential and prognosis of gallbladder carcinoma [38].

CD147

CD147 (so called EMMPRIN) is a transmembrane protein of the immunoglobulin and may express in many types of tumors. [39,40]. Wu et al. findings suggested that the intensity of CD147 and MMP-2 staining in cancerous tissues is associated significantly with histological types, distant metastasis, and Nevin stages of gallbladder carcinomas. The detection of these two markers combined with cancerous staging may increase the ability of investigators to predict the prognosis of patients with gallbladder carcinomas [41].

CD34

CD34 expression is considered as a useful indicator/marker in the differential diagnosis of gallbladder clinical features, discriminating patients with primitive gall bladder carcinoma from those with cholelithiasis [42].

SOX

The SOX (member of the SRY-related HMG-box (SOX) transcription factor family, encodes a protein of 474 amino acids with three distinguishable domains. SOX4, has been demonstrated to be involved in tumorigenesis of many human malignancies [43]. Wang et al for the first time that the over-expression of SOX4 in PGC was significantly correlated with favorable clinicopathologic features and was an independent prognostic factor for better overall and disease-free survival in patients. Therefore, SOX4 might be an auxiliary parameter for predicting malignant behavior for PGC [44]. Yadav et al. OCT-4, SOX-2, and NANOG variants showed an interactive role with treatment response [45].

Advanced GBC has an extremely poor prognosis because of metastasis and identification of metastasis-related biomarkers is essential to improve patient survival.  Shi et al. have suggested that ABCG2 might contribute to the chemo resistance of CD44+CD133+ gallbladder cancer cells, and could provide a therapeutic target [46].  EGF and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta1) plays important roles in tumor biology. NT5E and Fc GBP are key regulators of TGF-1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and their expression in gallbladder adenocarcinoma act as an independent marker for evaluation of the disease progression, clinical biological behaviours and prognosis [47]. Manohar et al. revelaved that EpCAM+ CD44+ CD13 cells represents the cell population most enriched for clonal self renewal from primary gallbladder also found that CD13, CD227, CD66, CD26 and CD49b were differentially expressed between gallbladder and IHBD cells cultured in vitro indicating clear phenotypic differences between the two cell population [48]. Expression of EphB1 and Ephrin-B through immunohistochemical methods for determination of correlations with prognosis could be regarded as independent good prognostic factors and important biological markers for SC/ASC and adenocarcinoma of gallbladder [49]. Novel biomarker candidates including prosaposin and transgelin were validated to be upregulated and downregulated in gallbladder cancer using tissue microarrays and it provide the first large scale proteomic characterization of gallbladder cancer which will serve as a resource for future discovery of biomarkers for gallbladder cancer [50]. Wu et al. demonstrated that the over-expression of ADAM-17 in patients with gallbladder carcinoma has been lined closely with histological grade, pT staging ang prognosis, serve as new target for the treatment [51]. Autocrine TNF-α plays a role as a tumor promoter gene in gallbladder cancer cells, possibly by promoting proliferation and invasion through autocrine mechanisms [52].

Shu et al (2015) demonstrated a significant correlation between high expression of SPOCK1 and poor prognoses of GBC patients, and its oncogene function have been  examined further in vitro and in vivo and demonstrated that SPOCK1 acts as a potential oncogene, which in turn contributes to the initiation and progression of GBC [53]. The elevated expression of PEG10 and TSG101 in gallbladder SC/ASC and adenocarcinoma samples indicates that they are significant markers for progression, clinical biological behavior and prognosis and patients with high PEG10 and TSG101 expression in their tumors are more likely to suffer from invasion and metastatic recurrence. [54]. DNA-PKcs and Ku70 are tumor suppressors, and loss of DNA-PKcs and Ku70 expression is an important biological marker for metastasis, invasion, and prognosis of GBC [55]. It has been reported that the aberrant nucleoside levels in the plasma, urine, bile, and tissues served as biomarkers in the diagnosis and these nucleosides may be as useful as biological markers for gallbladder cancer [56]. The positive β2M expression or loss of ATP5B expression in tumor tissues is closely related to the metastasis, invasion, and poor-prognosis of gallbladder cancer [57]. Beclin-1, a key modulator of autophagy function, is considered a haploinsufficient tumor suppressor, which has been highly expressed in GBC and may be an independent predictive marker of favorable prognosis in GBC [58].

Molecular biology of gallbladder cancer

The advances in molecular biology, results in understanding the genetic basis of cancer. Risk factors responsible for the development of gallbladder cancer, especially gallstone, are associated with several genetic alterations. Genes important for the progression of stem cells, also plays a vital role in the genetic and clinical outcome of cancer.  Molecular markers Oct-4, Sox-2 and nanog variants show its role in the treatment of gallbladder cancer. ALCAM gene polymorphism reported as associated with susceptibility and survival of gallbladder cancer [59]. The positive expression rates of Annexin A3 in gallbladder cancer was reported as significantly higher than that in cholecystitis, with important factor for the initiation and progression of human gallbladder cancer [60].

Loss of E-cadherin expression was high in gallbladder cancer, when compared with cholecystitis and xanthogranulomatous cholecystis cases and its expression might be useful prognostic marker [61]. T-cahderin decreases the expression of Akt3 and phosphorylated Akt molecules, results in down regulation, might inhibit progression of GBC [62].

Conclusion

Enormous novel approaches to target CSCs have received much attention over the past several years. The rise of the cancer stem cell hypothesis provides a new approach to eradicate malignancies. Increasing evidence has suggested that a comprehensive strategy might improve cancer treatments.

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Received date: January 07, 2017
Accepted date: March 03, 2017
Published date: March 06, 2017

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© 2017 Srivastava AN. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Srivastava AN (2017) Gallbladder cancer stem cell markers: An updated brief review. Histol Cytol Embryol1: DOI: 10.15761/HCE.1000104

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Naseem Fatima

Research Assistant, Department of Pathology, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow

Figure 1. Risk factors responsible for the activation of cancer stem cells leading to gallbladder cancer progression.