IMR Press / FBL / Volume 28 / Issue 10 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2810244
Open Access Original Research
Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Irradiation-Induced Radioresistant Breast Cancer Cells Using Label-Free Quantitation
Yingxia Ying1,†Lei Bian1,2,†Yiling Meng1,†Meichao Zhang1Yuan Yao1,*Fang Bo3,*Dong Li1,*
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1 Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, 200011 Shanghai, China
2 Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, 510060 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
3 Disinfection Supply Center, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, 200011 Shanghai, China
*Correspondence: yaoyuan@shsmu.edu.cn (Yuan Yao); fangbo1201@163.com (Fang Bo); lidong@shsmu.edu.cn (Dong Li)
These authors contributed equally.
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2023, 28(10), 244; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2810244
Submitted: 20 February 2023 | Revised: 12 April 2023 | Accepted: 29 May 2023 | Published: 19 October 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Targets in Anticancer Therapy)
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Breast cancer poses severe threats to human health as radioresistance becomes increasingly prevalent. The mechanisms of radioresistance are hard to expound completely. This study aims to explore proteomic changes of radioresistance, which will help elucidate the potential mechanisms responsible for breast cancer radioresistance and explore potential therapeutic targets. Methods: A radioresistant breast cancer cell line was established by repeated irradiation. Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (LC–MS) was used to quantify protein expression. Proteomic changes associated with radioresistance were evaluated by proteomic analysis. Further, cell radioresistance and several identified proteins were verified in in vitro experiments. Results: In the study, more than 3000 proteins were detected, 243 of which were identified as up-regulated proteins and another 633 as down-regulated proteins. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis indicated that these proteins were mainly expressed in the lysosome and ribosome, associated with coenzyme binding and the structural constituent of the ribosome, involved in mitotic cytokinesis and ribonucleoprotein complex biogenesis. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis indicated that many biological processes were extensively altered, particularly spliceosome and thermogenesis. It is worth noting that the functions and pathways related to ribosomes were significantly enriched, therefore ribosomal proteins (RPL6 and RPS13) were identified through western blot and highly expressed in relatively radiosensitive cells. Additionally, several identified proteins, including S100A4, RanBP9, and ISG15, were also verified to be differentially expressed in different radiosensitive cells. Conclusions: Our results provide a framework for further studies into the mechanisms of radioresistance and serve as a basis to construct a predictive model of radioresistance in breast cancer. Ribosome may participate in the radioresistance of breast cancer, which provides new insights into the proteomic characteristics of the mechanisms of radioresistance.

Keywords
breast cancer
radioresistance
bioinformatics analysis
proteomic analysis
ribosome
Funding
81970094/National Natural Science Foundation of China
TP2015022/The Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning
15PJ1404800/Shanghai Pujiang Program
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