Preclinical and clinical estimates of the basal apoptotic rate of a cancer predict the amount of apoptosis induced by subsequent proapoptotic stimuli

Clinical Cancer Research : an Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
Lian ZhangD Ross Camidge

Abstract

We hypothesized that the basal apoptotic rate (BAR) of a cancer would predict sensitivity to subsequent proapoptotic stimuli. To explore this, preclinical and clinical BAR assays were developed measuring cumulative apoptotic events through ELISAs for soluble caspase-cleaved cytokeratin 18 (M30) normalized to either cell number increase or total tumor volume, respectively. The BARs of A549, HCC44, and SW1573 non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines were measured following different pro/antiapoptotic manipulations. In isogenic wild-type and stable knockdown (KD) series, pretreatment BARs were correlated with response to proapoptotic stimuli and compared with established apoptosis assays. Pretreatment and posttreatment serum was available from stereotactic body radiation therapy patients. Caspase inhibition and p53 KDs reduced the BAR, whereas serum deprivation, XIAP, or Bcl2 KDs increased the BAR. The nontreated BAR rank ordering of the XIAP series recapitulated that with terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling and caspase-3/7 activity assays, and predicted each line's sensitivity to TRAIL or irradiation. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling, however, underestimated b...Continue Reading

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