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Published in: Cancer Cell International 1/2024

Open Access 01-12-2024 | Breast Cancer | Research

Pan-inhibition of the three H2S synthesizing enzymes restrains tumor progression and immunosuppression in breast cancer

Authors: Alyaa Dawoud, Rana A. Youness, Heba Nafea, Tamer Manie, Carole Bourquin, Csaba Szabo, Reham M. Abdel-Kader, Mohamed Z. Gad

Published in: Cancer Cell International | Issue 1/2024

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Abstract

Background

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a significant endogenous mediator that has been implicated in the progression of various forms of cancer including breast cancer (BC). Cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS), cystathionine-γ-lyase (CSE), and 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3MST) are the three principal mammalian enzymes responsible for H2S production. Overexpression of CBS, CSE and 3MST was found to be associated with poor prognosis of BC patients. Moreover, H2S was linked to an immune-suppressive tumor microenvironment in BC. Recently it was observed that BC cells, in response to single or dual inhibition of H2S synthesizing enzymes, develop an escape mechanism by overexpressing alternative sources of H2S generation. Thus, the aim of this work is to escape the H2S compensatory mechanism by pan repressing the three enzymes using microRNAs (miRNAs) and to investigate their impact on the oncogenic and immunogenic profile of BC cells.

Methods

BC female patients (n = 25) were recruited. In-silico analysis was used to identify miRNAs targeting CBS, CSE, and 3MST. MDA-MB-231 cells were cultured and transfected using oligonucleotides. Total RNA was extracted using Biazol, reverse transcribed and quantified using qRT-PCR. H2S levels were measured using AzMc assay. BC hallmarks were assessed using trans-well migration, wound healing, MTT, and colony forming assays.

Results

miR-193a and miR-548c were validated by eight different bioinformatics software to simultaneously target CBS, CSE and 3MST. MiR-193a and miR-548c were significantly downregulated in BC tissues compared to their non-cancerous counterparts. Ectopic expression of miR-193a and miR-548c in MDA-MB-231 TNBC cells resulted in a marked repression of CBS, CSE, and 3MST transcript and protein levels, a significant decrease in H2S levels, reduction in cellular viability, inhibition of migration and colony forming ability, repression of immune-suppressor proteins GAL3 GAL9, and CD155 and upregulation of the immunostimulatory MICA and MICB proteins.

Conclusion

This study sheds the light onto miR-193a and miR-548c as potential pan-repressors of the H2S synthesizing enzymes. and identifies them as novel tumor suppressor and immunomodulatory miRNAs in TNBC.
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Metadata
Title
Pan-inhibition of the three H2S synthesizing enzymes restrains tumor progression and immunosuppression in breast cancer
Authors
Alyaa Dawoud
Rana A. Youness
Heba Nafea
Tamer Manie
Carole Bourquin
Csaba Szabo
Reham M. Abdel-Kader
Mohamed Z. Gad
Publication date
01-12-2024
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Cancer Cell International / Issue 1/2024
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2867
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-024-03317-1

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