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29. INFLUENCE OF THE LEVEL OF CD133 EXPRESSION ON ADHESION AND PROLIFERATION<br />

OF CANCER STEM-LIKE CELLS<br />

Radek Fedr 1# , Zuzana Pernicová 1,2# , Šárka Šimečková 1,3 , Veronika Toporcerová 1,3 , Alois<br />

Kozubík 1,3 , Karel Souček 1,2 *<br />

1<br />

Department of Cytokinetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the<br />

Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic;<br />

2<br />

Center of Biomolecular and Cellular Engineering, International Clinical Research<br />

Center, St. Anne´s University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic;<br />

3<br />

Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University,<br />

Brno, Czech Republic<br />

#<br />

equal contribution, *ksoucek@ibp.cz<br />

CD133 is a transmembrane glycoprotein that has been described as one of the typical<br />

cancer stem cells (CSC) marker in many types of tissue. However, the fact if the expression<br />

of CD133 unambiguously defines subpopulation of CSC is still controversial. Interestingly<br />

the function of CD133 is poorly described. Clonogenic assay is widely used in vitro for<br />

elucidating the proliferative capacity of every single cell in the population. Here, we<br />

used this assay to determine, if expression of cancer stem cell markers CD133 and<br />

CD44 correlates also with functional properties of cancer cells derived from conditional<br />

PTEN-deletion mouse model from androgen-independent tumor. Moreover, label-free<br />

real time cell analyzer xCELLigence was used to compare adhesion and proliferation of<br />

subpopulations with different expression of cancer stem cell markers.<br />

We found that CD44+/CD133high subpopulation of prostate cancer cells has significantly<br />

higher clonogenic capacity in comparison to CD44+/CD133low subpopulation. Moreover<br />

increased clonogenic capacity correlates with both increased adhesion and proliferation<br />

rate in CD133high subpopulation, as confirmed using label-free measurement with<br />

real time cell analyzer xCELLigence. Interestingly, fibronectin coating significantly<br />

increases adhesion of CD44+/CD133low and more significantly of CD44+/CD133high<br />

subpopulation. Blocking fibronectin motif by pre-treatment with synthetic RGDS peptide<br />

decreases ability of CD133high cells to adhere to fibronectin.<br />

We conclude that CD133 expression might contribute to the regulation of cell cycle and<br />

adhesion of prostate cancer cells. However further studies are necessary to describe<br />

mechanisms of these features.<br />

Acknowledgements<br />

This work was supported by grants IGA MZD NT13573-4/2012, AV ČR M200041203,<br />

OrganoNET (CZ.1.07/2.4.00/31.0245), HistoPARK (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0185) and<br />

by project FNUSA-ICRC (no. CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0123) from the European Regional<br />

Development Fund. Institutional support was provided by the Academy of Sciences of<br />

the Czech Republic.<br />

54 Analytical Cytometry VII

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