Acta Pharmaceutica, Vol. 72 No. 4, 2022.
Short communication, Note
https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2022-0040
In vitro effects of ascorbic acid on viability and metabolism of patients’ osteosarcoma stem cells
MARIJANA ŠIMIĆ JOVIČIĆ
; Children’s Hospital Zagreb, Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, Zagreb, Croatia
MAJA PUŠIĆ
; Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia
MAJA ANTUNOVIĆ
; Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia
MAJA LEDINSKI
; Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia
LUCIJA LIBRENJAK
; Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia
ROBERT KOLUNDŽIĆ
; Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Centre “Sestre Milosrdnice”, Zagreb, Croatia
TOMISLAV RIBIČIĆ
; Children’s Hospital Zagreb, Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, Zagreb, Croatia
VLADIMIR TRKULJA
; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Department of Pharmacology, Zagreb, Croatia
INGA URLIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-2192
; Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Stagnation in novelties of osteosarcoma (OS) treatment indicates the need for new therapeutic methods. OS cancer stem cells (OS-CSC) are taught to have the ability to self-renew and develop mechanisms of anticancer drug resistance, and this is why it is difficult to eradicate them. Their metabolism has been recognized as a potential target of therapeutic action. Ascorbic acid (AA) is considered to act pro-oxidative against OS-CSC in vitro by oxidative effect and by inhibition of glycolysis. This study examined an in vitro impact of AA on OS-CSC metabolism isolated from patients' biopsies, with the aim of better understanding of OS-CSC metabolism and the action of AA on OS-CSC. OS-CSC were isolated using a sphere culture system and identified as stem cells using Hoechst 33342 exclusion assay. Determination of the dominant type of metabolism of OS-CSC, parental OS cells, human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) and U2OS OS lineage before and after AA treatment was done by Seahorse XF (Agilent). Cytotoxicity of high-dose AA was confirmed by the MTT test and was proven for all the examined cell types as well as HEK293. Seahorse technology showed that OS-CSC can potentially use both glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), and can turn to glycolysis and slow metabolic potential in unfavorable conditions such as incubation in AA.
Keywords
osteosarcoma; cancer stem cells; tumor cell metabolism; ascorbic acid
Hrčak ID:
281770
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2022.
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