A crucial stem cell plasticity regulation pathway: identification of key elements using the NCCIT human embryonic carcinoma cell line

Author:

Nozaki Sae1,Hirai Yohei1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Kwansei Gakuin University Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, , 1, Gakuen-Uegahara, Sanda 669-1330, Japan

Abstract

Abstract Upon removal of stemness factors, a small subpopulation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) spontaneously extrudes the t-SNARE protein syntaxin-4, which upregulates the cell adhesion molecule P-cadherin and induces the onset of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-like behaviors with loss of stemness in each cell. In this study, we identified a series of molecular elements responsible for this phenomenon using several small-molecule inhibitors and the human embryonic carcinoma cell line, NCCIT. We found that the syntaxin-4–triggered morphological changes and a decrease in stemness signatures were independently induced by the activation of Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) and the abrogation of PI3K/Akt signaling. We also found that the extracellular expression of syntaxin-4 inactivated focal adhesion kinase (FAK) in association with the augmented expression of P-cadherin, and comparable controls of either of these downstream elements of syntaxin-4 accelerated both ROCK-induced F-actin stress fiber formation and P13K/Akt–suppressed loss of stemness signatures. Cells expressing P-cadherin inactivated FAK but FAK inhibition did not affect P-cadherin expression, demonstrating a causal relationship between P-cadherin and FAK in the event of syntaxin-4 induction. These results reveal a novel signaling axis in stem cells and shed new light on the crucial elements for stem cell plasticity and the maintenance of stemness.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Molecular Biology,Biochemistry,General Medicine

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