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  • Phospholipid profiling identifies acyl chain elongation as a ubiquitous trait and potential target for the treatment of lung squamous cell carcinoma.

Phospholipid profiling identifies acyl chain elongation as a ubiquitous trait and potential target for the treatment of lung squamous cell carcinoma.

Oncotarget (2016-02-11)
Eyra Marien, Michael Meister, Thomas Muley, Teresa Gomez Del Pulgar, Rita Derua, Jeffrey M Spraggins, Raf Van de Plas, Frank Vanderhoydonc, Jelle Machiels, Maria Mercedes Binda, Jonas Dehairs, Jami Willette-Brown, Yinling Hu, Hendrik Dienemann, Michael Thomas, Philipp A Schnabel, Richard M Caprioli, Juan Carlos Lacal, Etienne Waelkens, Johannes V Swinnen
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death. Beyond first line treatment, few therapeutic options are available, particularly for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Here, we have explored the phospholipidomes of 30 human SCCs and found that they almost invariably (in 96.7% of cases) contain phospholipids with longer acyl chains compared to matched normal tissues. This trait was confirmed using in situ 2D-imaging MS on tissue sections and by phospholipidomics of tumor and normal lung tissue of the L-IkkαKA/KA mouse model of lung SCC. In both human and mouse, the increase in acyl chain length in cancer tissue was accompanied by significant changes in the expression of acyl chain elongases (ELOVLs). Functional screening of differentially expressed ELOVLs by selective gene knockdown in SCC cell lines followed by phospholipidomics revealed ELOVL6 as the main elongation enzyme responsible for acyl chain elongation in cancer cells. Interestingly, inhibition of ELOVL6 drastically reduced colony formation of multiple SCC cell lines in vitro and significantly attenuated their growth as xenografts in vivo in mouse models. These findings identify acyl chain elongation as one of the most common traits of lung SCC discovered so far and pinpoint ELOVL6 as a novel potential target for cancer intervention.

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KINK-1 hydrochloride, ≥98% (HPLC)