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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2023

Extended lifespan and improved genome stability in HepaRG-derived cell lines through reprogramming by high-density stress

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The characteristics and fate of cancer cells partly depend on their environmental stiffness, i.e., the local mechanical cues they face. HepaRG progenitors are liver carcinoma cells exhibiting transdifferentiation properties; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. To evaluate the impact of external physical forces mimicking the tumor microenvironment, we seeded them at very high density for 20 h, keeping the cells round and unanchored to the substrate. Applied without corticoids, spatial confinement due to very high density induced reprogramming of HepaRG cells into stable replicative stem-like cells after replating at normal density. Redifferentiation of these stem-like cells into cells very similar to the original HepaRG cells was then achieved using the same stress but in the presence of corticoids. This demonstrates that the cells retained the memory required to run the complete hepatic differentiation program, after bypassing the Hayflick limit twice. We show that physical stress improved chromosome quality and genomic stability, through greater efficiency of DNA repair and restoration of telomerase activity, thus enabling cells to escape progression to a more aggressive cancer state. We also show the primary importance of high-density seeding, possibly triggering compressive stress, in these processes, rather than that of cell roundness or intracellular tensional signals. The HepaRG-derived lines established here considerably extend the lifespan and availability of this surrogate cell system for mature human hepatocytes. External physical stress is a promising way to create a variety of cell lines, and it paves the way for the development of strategies to improve cancer prognosis.
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hal-04196576 , version 1 (29-05-2024)

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Charlotte Brun, Coralie Allain, Pierre-Jean Ferron,, Haifaou Younoussa, Bruno Colicchio, et al.. Extended lifespan and improved genome stability in HepaRG-derived cell lines through reprogramming by high-density stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023, 120 (36), pp.e2219298120. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2219298120⟩. ⟨hal-04196576⟩
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