• Journal of neurosurgery · May 2023

    ZEB1 loss increases glioma stem cell tumorigenicity and resistance to chemoradiation.

    • George K Hanna, Mecca Madany, Angelique Sao-Mai Sy Tay, Lincoln A Edwards, Sungjin Kim, Justin S Michael, Miriam Nuno, Tom Thomas, Aiguo Li, Dror Berel, Keith L Black, Xuemo Fan, Wei Zhang, Jeremy D Rudnick, Rongfu Wang, and John S Yu.
    • Departments of1Neurosurgery and.
    • J. Neurosurg. 2023 May 1; 138 (5): 131313241313-1324.

    ObjectiveGlioblastoma has been known to be resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, whereas the underlying mechanisms of resistance have not been fully elucidated. The authors studied the role of the transcription factor ZEB1 (zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 1 protein), which is associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and is central to the stemness of glioblastoma, to determine its role in therapeutic resistance to radiation and chemotherapy. The authors previously demonstrated that ZEB1 is deleted in a majority of glioblastomas.MethodsThe authors explored resistance to therapy in the context of ZEB1 loss and overexpression in glioma stem cells (GSCs) and in patient data.ResultsPatients with ZEB1 loss had a shorter survival time than patients with wild-type ZEB1 in both the high- and low-MGMT groups. Consistent with the clinical data, mice implanted with ZEB1 knockdown GSCs showed shortened survival compared with mice inoculated with nonsilencing control (NS) short-hairpin RNA (shRNA) GSC glioblastoma. ZEB1-deleted GSCs demonstrated increased tumorigenicity with regard to proliferation and invasion. Importantly, GSCs that lose ZEB1 expression develop enhanced resistance to chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and combined chemoradiation. ZEB1 loss may lead to increased HER3 expression through the HER3/Akt pathway associated with this chemoresistance. Conversely, overexpression of ZEB1 in GSCs that are ZEB1 null leads to increased sensitivity to chemoradiation.ConclusionsThe study results indicate that ZEB1 loss in cancer stem cells confers resistance to chemoradiation and uncovers a potentially targetable cell surface receptor in these resistant cells.

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