Abstract
Background
The clinical management of glioblastoma is still challenging despite aggressive surgery
and radio-chemotherapy approaches. Better understanding of the molecules involved
in glioblastoma chemoresistance is necessary to improve the treatment and predict
prognosis.
Materials and Methods
We analyzed the expression and possible roles of cytosolic phospholipase A2 alpha
(cPLA2α) in human glioblastoma cell lines and patient samples using immunohistochemistry
and cellular assays. We analyzed the signaling pathways that cPLA2α regulates in glioblastoma
cells using western blot analysis.
Results
Our work demonstrated that cPLA2α is upregulated in glioblastoma compared with normal
neuron cells. The expression of cPLA2α varies in multiple glioblastoma cell lines
and is associated with chemoresistance rather than tumor development. cPLA2α depletion
moderately inhibits glioblastoma growth and survival but remarkably sensitizes chemo-resistant
glioblastoma cells to several chemotherapeutic agents. Mechanistically, cPLA2α knockdown
significantly suppresses the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in glioblastoma cells.
Conclusions
We are the first to identify the important role of cPLA2α in glioblastoma in response
to chemotherapy. Our data also suggest that cPLA2α may serve as a biomarker to indicate
prognosis of glioblastoma patients with high level of cPLA2α to chemotherapy.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 25, 2018
Accepted:
June 19,
2018
Received:
March 10,
2018
Footnotes
This work was supported by grant from the Medicine Project of Hubei Province (H2015026).
The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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