Insulin caused drug resistance to oxaliplatin in colon cancer cell line HT29
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Insulin caused drug resistance to oxaliplatin in colon cancer cell line HT29
Jiezhong Chen1, Xu-Feng Huang1, Liang Qiao2, Andrew Katsifis3
1Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia; 2Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute, The University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia; 3Radiopharmaceutical Research Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Menai, Australia
Corresponding to: Jiezhong Chen, MD, PhD. Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute and School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, NSW 2522, Australia. Tel: 61-2-42213199; Fax: 61-2-42218130. E-mail: jiezhong@uow.edu.au.
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Introduction: Obesity is associated with poor prognosis of colon cancer and the mechanism for this is unknown. This study tested insulin-caused resistance to oxaliplatin via activation of PI3K/Akt pathway in HT29 cells.
Methods: The effect of insulin on oxaliplatin cytotoxicity was tested by pre-incubation with 1μM insulin followed by addition of oxaliplatin. Phosphorylated Akt was determined by Western blotting.
Results: Addition of 1μM insulin decreased the cytotoxicity of oxaliplatin. PI3K specific inhibitor Ly294002 abolished such an effect of insulin. pAkt were highly activated by insulin plus oxaliplatin and inhibited by addition of Ly294002.
Conclusion: Insulin decreased drug efficacy of oxaliplatin in HT29 cells, which could be mediated by the activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway.
Key words
colon cancer; HT29 cell; Insulin; PI3K/Akt pathway; Obesity
J Gastrointest Oncol 2011; 2: 27-33. DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2078-6891.2010.028
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The incidence of obesity is increasing worldwide and it has affected a large proportion of population. In Western world, one third of the population is obese and two thirds are overweight and obese (1). Epidemiological studies showed that obesity is associated with many cancers including colon cancer (2). Obesity is estimated to be responsible for about 30% of colon cancer incidence (3). Recent studies have also shown that obesity leads to poor prognosis of colon cancer (4-6). However, the mechanism for obesity-associated poorer prognosis of colon cancer is not known. As the activation of PI3K/Akt signal pathway increases the resistance of several cancer cell lines such ovarian, lung cancer to chemotherapeutic drugs (7,8), it is possible that PI3K/Akt may also play a role in the poor prognosis of obesity-associated colon cancer. Many altered factors in obesity are known to activate PI3K/Akt pathway including increased blood levels of insulin, Insulin-like growth factor-1, leptin, IL-6, IL-17, TNF-α and decreased blood level of adiponectin (9,10). Thus, it is possible that these factors can activate PI3K/Akt pathway which in turn increases the resistance to chemotherapy in obesityassociated colon cancer (11).
Increased insulin in obesity may play a key role in obesity-associated carcinogenesis and prognosis of colon cancer (12). In 1990s, Giovannucci et al proposed that prolonged high blood level of insulin is associated with increased colon cancer incidence (13,14). Epidemiological studies have shown that the serum level of C-peptide is associated with the increased risk of colon cancer (15-17). A recent prospective study further demonstrated that fasting blood level of insulin is positively correlated with waist circumference and colon cancer (18). This hypothesis has been demonstrated in animal models. Administration of insulin increased colon cancer cell proliferation and polyp formation in Azoxymethane (AOM)-induced cancer model (19,20). High level of plasma insulin has also been demonstrated to significantly increase the formation of aberrant crypt foci in obese rat model with injection of AOM (21).
Insulin can stimulate PI3K/Akt activity to increase the carcinogenesis of colon cancer (9). The activation of PI3K/Akt pathway can increase cell survival, cell growth and proliferation (22-24). In addition, insulin can also increase IGF-1 (insulin-growth factor -1) by inhibiting production of IGFBPs 1, 2 and 3 (insulin-like growth factor binding proteins) (25). IGF-1 binds to both insulin and IGF-1 receptors to stimulate PI3K/Akt activity (25). However, the effect of insulin has not been studied in colon cancer prognosis although increased insulin level has been regarded as a major factor for the poor prognosis of obesity-associated breast cancer and reduction of insulin by metformin was found to improve treatment outcome (26,27). It has also been shown that prediagnosis C-peptide and lower levels of plasma IGFBP1 were associated with increased colon cancer mortality (28). Therefore, insulin may also associate with prognosis of colon cancer through the activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway. Activation of PI3K can cause drug resistance which is a major reason of poor outcome of the treatment. At present, colon cancer is treated by oxaliplatin and 5-Fu. The initial response to the therapeutic regime with 5-FU plus oxaliplatin is 50% (29). Oxaliplatin, a third generation of platinum-containing anti-cancer agent, reduces DNA replication by covalently binding to DNA , forming platinum-DNA adducts (30). A sufficient amount of such DNA damage leads to cellcycle arrest and apoptosis (31). The mechanisms for drug resistance to oxaliplatin are diverse such as apoptosis, DNA repair, transcription factor and drug detoxification (32,33). Drug detoxification system affects drug metabolism and transportation and thus affects drug availability (34-36). Decreased apoptosis could be caused by the activation of survival signal pathways and inhibition of these pathways can increase sensitivity to oxaliplatin (37).
In this study, we tested if insulin can cause drug resistance of colon cancer cell line HT29 cells to oxaliplatin via activation of PI3K/Akt pathway and if PI3K specific inhibitor Ly294002 can re-sensitize the HT29 cells.
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Insulin, DMEM medium, antibiotics PNS, protease inhibitor cockta i l, protein phosphata se inhibitor, glycerophosphate, phenylmethylsulfonyl f luoride, TBST buffer and fetal calf serum were purchased from Sigmaaldrich (Sydney, Australia). Anti-pAkt antibody (Ser473), goat-anti rabbit antibody and Ly294002 was from Cell Signal Technology (Queensland, Australia). Celltiter one solution cell proliferation assay was from Promega (Sydney, Australia). HT29 cell line was bought from ATCC. Oxaliplatin was from Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia. Immune-blot PVDF membrane, 4-12% Bis-Tris gel from Biorad (Sydney, Australia). ECL Western detection reagents were from GE healthcare (Sydney, Australia).
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Colon cancer HT 29 cells
HT 29 cells were cultured in DMEM medium at 37ºC with 10% fetal calf serum under atmosphere of 95% air and 5% CO2 in a 75-ml f lask. After treated with trypsin for 5 min, cells were resuspended in medium to make the concentration at 2 x 105/ml. Then 100 μl of cells were added to each well in 96 well plates for drug cytotoxicity assay.
Treatment of HT29 cells with oxaliplatin, insulin and Ly294002
HT29 cells were incubated with serum free medium overnight before treatment. Insulin was added to the medium 15 min before oxaliplatin treatment. Oxaliplatin was mixed in serum free medium at different concentrations that were used to replace the former medium. Ly294002 was tested at the final concentration of 8μM.
Cell viability assay
Cell viability was determined by Celltiter 96 aqueous one solution cell proliferation assay kit according to the kit manual. 2 × 104 cells/ well were cultured in 96-well plates with DMEM medium with or without added agents. After incubation, 20 μl of MTS was added to each well. Cells were incubated for 45min. They were read in 495nm wavelength with a 96-well plate reader to determine absorbance.
Western blotting
Cells from cultures were lysed in NP40 buffer containing 10μl/ml protease inhibitor cocktail, phosphotase inhibitor, 1mM/phenylmethylsulfonyl f luoride by incubating for 30 min at 4ºC. Proteins were separated by electrophorsis in 26 well gels by a Bio-Rad apparatus. The proteins were then transferred into PVDF membrane at 100V for 1 hr. The membranes were blocked at room temperature with 5% bovine serum albumin in TBST buffer. After three times of 5 min wash with TBST, the membranes were incubated overnight with phosphorylated Akt antibody (Ser473) at 1:500 dilution. After three times of 5 min wash with TBST, the membranes were incubated for 2 hrs with horseradish peroxidise conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody at dilution 1:20000. The membrances were exposed to Fujifilm after incubating with ECL for 1 min. Western blots were evaluated with densitometric analysis by using Biorad quantity one software.
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The statistics is done by oneway Anova using SPSS (version 15, Chicago, IL, USA) and student t-test. A p
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Oxaliplatin caused dose- and time-dependent cytotoxicity on HT29 cells
We first tested the effect of oxaliplatin on HT29 cells. As shown in Fig 1A, addition of oxaliplatin caused a dosedependent cytotoxicity on HT29 cells. 25μg/ml of oxaliplatin reduced cell survival rate to 75% of control. With increased dose of oxaliplatin, the survival rates were further decreased to 48% at dose of 50 μg/ml, 42% at 100 μg/ml and 34% at 200μg/ml. We then choose the dose 50 μg/ml to test whether a time-dependent effect exists. As shown in (Fig 1B), at day 1, it decreased activity to 80% of control and 19% at day 3.
Insulin-induced resistance to oxaliplatin
Then we examined the effect of insulin on the cytotoxicity of oxaliplatin on HT29 cells. Addition of 1 μM insulin significantly increased HT29 resistant to oxaliplatin (Fig 2). After addition of insulin, 100μg/ml of oxaliplatin can only reduce cell survival rate to 62% of control compared to 42% when using oxaliplatin alone. 50μg/ml of oxaliplatin can not reduce HT29 cell survival rate with the addition of insulin.
Inhibitory effect of PI3K specific inhibitor Ly294002
Due to the important role of the PI3K/Akt pathway in insulin-caused drug resistance, we tested the effect of PI3K specific inhibitor Ly294002. Addition of 8μM Ly294002 restored HT29 sensitivity to 50μg/ml oxaliplatin in the condition of insulin effect (Fig 3). However, Ly294002 alone did not cause any cell death.
HT29 cell morphological changes
After 48 hrs incubation with 50μg/ml oxaliplatin, the HT29 cell morphological changes were observed under microscopy. As seen in Fig 4B, 50μg/ml oxaliplatin caused HT29 cell shrinkage, rupture of cells into debris compared with control (Fig 4A). This is rescued by addition of 1μM insulin (Fig 4C) and re-sensitized by 8μM Ly294002 (Fig 4D).
Examination of pAkt levels after addition of insulin, oxaliplatin and Ly294002
To further examine the role of the PI3K/Akt in insulininduced drug resistance, HT29 cells were plated in 24 well plates. After changed to FBS free medium and incubated overnight, the cells were incubated for 15 min with 50μg/ml oxaliplan, insulin, oxaliplatin plus insulin and oxaliplatin plus insulin plus Ly294002. As shown in Fig 5, insulin alone activated pAkt level in HT29 cells. It also activated pAkt when oxaliplatin was present to 3 folds of control. This activation was inhibited by addition of Ly294002 by 40%. The results indicate an important role of the PI3K/Akt in insulin-induced drug resistance to oxaliplatin in HT29 cells.
Figure 1 Time- and dose-dependent effect of oxaliplatin on the survival of HT29 cells. Data represent mean ± SD, n=6, * is p < 0.05 compared with control. Panel A is dose-dependent after 48 hrs treatment of different concentration of oxaliplatin. Panel B is time-dependent of 50μg/ml of oxaliplatin.
Figure 2 Insulin abrogated the killing effect of the oxaliplatin on HT29 cells. Data represent mean ± SD, n=4, * is p<0.05 compared with cells treated with oxaliplatin.
Figure 3 PI3K inhibitor Ly294002 abolished the insulininduced resistance to oxaliplatin in HT29 cells. Data represent mean ± SD, n=4, * is p
Figure 4 HT29 cell morphological changes under treatment of oxaliplatin. Panel A is from control; B treated with 50μg/ml of oxaliplatin; C treated with oxaliplatin and insulin and D treated with oxaliplatin, insulin and Ly294002.
Figure 5 pAkt after treatment with insulin, oxaliplatin and ly294002. The levels of pAkt in HT29 cells under different treatments were detected by Western blotting. Lane 1 is control; lane 2: oxaliplatin treatment; lane 3: insulin alone; lane 4: insulin plus oxaliplatin; lane 5: insulin + oxaliplatin + ly294002; lane 6: Ly294002 alone. The figure represents one of three independent experiments.
Figure 6 The effect of insulin in drug-resistance. Insulin and bind directly to insulin receptor (IR), IGF-1 receptor (IGFR) and insulin and IGFR hybridised receptor to activated PI3K/ Akt pathway. It can also block IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs) to increase free IGF-1 which also binds to above receptors to activate the PI3K/Akt. Activated PI3K/Akt in turn decreased the cytotoxicity efficacy of oxaliplatin on HT29 cells.
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Drug resistance is a major problem for the treatment of colon cancer. Many genes have been found to be associated with oxaliplatin resistance (38,39). DNA polymerase beta (POLB) gene is shown to cause oxaliplatin resistance and cause poor prognosis in colon cancer (40). Phosphoserine aminotransferase PSAT1 over-expression has been also shown to increase resistance to oxaliplatin (41). In addition, drug accumulation is also related with resistance to oxaliplatin (42). In this study we showed that insulin can cause drug resistance in HT29 cells which is different f rom gene mutations and may account for the poor prognosis of obesity-associated colon cancer. In addition, this phenomenon also happens in another colon cancer cell line LS174T cells. Our preliminary data showed that insulin increased LS174T cell resistance to cytotoxin cycloheximide. Thus, insulin-induced drug resistance could be universal in colon cancer.
Obesity has been associated with poor outcome of colon cancer treatment. Thus, it is urgent to identify the mechanisms for this. Our study provides the evidence that the increased risk factors in obesity may cause drug resistance to chemotherapy. Among many factors changed in obesity, insulin is of important role. It is known to activate the survival pathway PI3K/Akt pathway to promote carcinogenesis (43). We showed that addition of insulin into colon cancer cell line HT29 increased the cells to resist the chemotherapeutic drug oxaliplatin. The role of the PI3K/Akt pathway in insulin-induced drug resistance is also indicated by Western blotting detection of pAkt levels after various treatments of HT29 cells. Thus, insulin-activated PI3K/Akt pathway at least patially account for the poor prognosis of colon cancer caused by obesity. Other factors may also have similar effect and synergize the effect of insulin making the situation worse.
We have also shown that PI3K specif ic inhibitor Ly294002 can restore the sensitivity to oxaliplatin at a low concentration which did not cause HT29 cells death. This may indicate that PI3K activated by insulin sensitized the cells to the inhibitor of the pathway. It provides an opportunity for the obesity-associated colon cancer for better treatment by incorporating the inhibitor into the current regime.
We propose that insulin mediated activation of PI3K/Akt pathway may be direct or indirect (Fig 6). Insulin can bind to IR, IGF and hybrid receptors to activate PI3K/Akt. It also inhibits IGFBPs to increase IGF1. IGFs are involved in insulin action (44). IGF-1 share 40% amino acid sequence homology with insulin and has stronger anti-apoptosis effect than insulin. The increase of IGF-1 is positively related with incidence of colon cancer while IGFBPs are inversely related with the disease (45-48).
Overall, our study provided evidence to support the hypothesis that risk factors in obesity may cause drug resistance via the activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway in obesity-associated colon cancer. The inhibition of the pathway could have therapeutic effect.
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Cite this article as: Chen J, Huang X, Qiao L, Katsifis A. Insulin caused drug resistance to oxaliplatin in colon cancer cell line HT29. J Gastrointest Oncol. 2011;2(1):27-33. DOI:10.3978/j.issn.2078-6891.2010.028

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