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1 Department of Dermatology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York; 2 Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; 3 Department of Dermatology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; 4 Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; 5 Sealy Centers for Cancer Cell Biology and Environmental Health, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas; and 6 Xijing Hospital, Xi’an 710032, China
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66%) UVBinduced basal cell carcinoma formation in Ptch1+/– mice. Fas expression is low in human and murine basal cell carcinomas but is up-regulated in the presence of the smoothened (SMO) antagonist, cyclopamine, both in vitro in the mouse basal cell carcinoma cell line ASZ001 and in vivo after acute treatment of mice with basal cell carcinomas. This parallels an elevated rate of apoptosis. Conversely, expression of activated SMO in C3H10T1/2 cells inhibits Fas expression. Fas/Fas ligand interactions are necessary for cyclopamine-mediated apoptosis in these cells, a process involving caspase-8 activation. Our data provide strong evidence that cyclopamine and perhaps other SMO antagonists are potent in vivo inhibitors of UVB-induced basal cell carcinomas in Ptch1+/– mice and likely in humans because the majority of human basal cell carcinomas manifest mutations in PTCH1 and that a major mechanism of their inhibitory effect is through up-regulation of Fas, which augments apoptosis. |
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Ptch1+/– mice (15) provided the first practical animal model for inducing basal cell carcinomas using UV and ionizing radiation (16) . We report here that chronic oral administration of cyclopamine dramatically inhibits basal cell carcinoma growth in these mice. We also have tested the in vitro effects of cyclopamine and of the synthetic SMO inhibitor Cur61414 on the mouse basal cell carcinoma cell line ASZ001 and have demonstrated that both compounds elevate Fas expression and augment apoptosis. The clinical relevance of our data for treatment of basal cell carcinomas is supported by the low baseline Fas expression in basal cell carcinomas of both humans and mice and by the in vivo induction of high level Fas expression by short-term administration of cyclopamine in murine basal cell carcinomas. Thus, our studies support the idea that treatment of human basal cell carcinomas with specific inhibitors of the Hh pathway may offer a mechanism-driven approach to the chemoprevention of these tumors.
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UV Light Source.
An UV Irradiation unit (Daavlin Co., Bryan, OH) equipped with an electronic controller to regulate dosage was routinely used for these studies. The UVB source consisted of eight FS72T12-UVB-HO lamps emitting UVB (290 to 320 nm, 75 to 80% of total energy) and UVA (320 to 380 nm, 20 to 25% of total energy). We used a Kodacel cellulose film (Kodacel TA401/407) to eliminate UVC radiation. A UVC sensor (Oriel’s Goldilux UVC Probe) was used during each exposure to confirm the lack of UVC emission. The UVB dose was quantified using a UVB Spectrum 305 Dosimeter obtained from the Daavlin Co. The radiation was additionally calibrated using an IL1700 Research Radiometer/Photometer from International Light, Inc. (Newburyport, MA). The distance between the radiation source and targets was maintained at 30 cm. The irradiation assembly is kept in an air-conditioned room, and a fan is placed inside the exposure chamber to minimize temperature fluctuations during irradiation.
Carcinogenesis Protocol and Statistical Analyses.
Mice were irradiated with a UV Irradiation unit (240 mJ/cm2 three times a week) from age 6 to 32 weeks, at which time, 50% of the animals had one or more visible skin tumors. The mice (25 mice per group) were given either cyclopamine (10 µg/day as a cyclodextran complex) or the vehicle control in drinking water, and the number of tumors was recorded weekly. Mice treated with cyclopamine or with the vehicle control were sacrificed at 52 weeks, their dorsal skin removed, and tumors harvested and collected for the histologic and immunohistochemical studies. The microscopic basal cell carcinoma areas were assessed by histologic evaluation of three dorsal skin sections per mouse from a total of seven mice (n = 7) in the vehicle-treated water group and a total of six mice (n = 6) in the cyclopamine-treated group. The basal cell carcinoma areas were measured by microscopic assessment using the Axiovision 3.1 analysis program (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc., Thornwood, NY). Results were analyzed using the Student’s t test or a nonparametric test (Mann-Whitney test): P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
For evaluation of Fas expression and apoptosis in vivo, cyclopamine was injected (at 100 pg s.c. or intratumorally) into mice with visible basal cell carcinomas (>1 cm in diameter). Seventy-two hours later, basal cell carcinomas were embedded in OCT compound (Tissue-Tek; Sakura, Torrance, CA), and stored in –20°C for additional analyses. Stromal cells were used as the control for basal cell carcinoma cells.
ß-Galactosidase Staining.
Tissues were fixed in 0.2% glutaraldehyde (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO)/2% formaldehyde (Fisher Scientific Co., Pittsburgh, PA) in 1x PBS for 20 minutes at 4°C, then washed twice in 1x PBS. Tissues were incubated with 5% 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-ß-D-galactopyranoside in 95% iron buffer solution for 24 hours at 37°C using a ß-galactosidase staining set (Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, IN), according to the manufacturer’s guideline. The tissues were washed twice in 3% DMSO in 1x PBS and then three times in 70% etomidate. The tissues were embedded in paraffin and processed for counterstaining.
Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase-Mediated Nick End Labeling (TUNEL) and Immunofluorescent Staining.
TUNEL analysis was performed using a kit from Roche Applied System according to the manufacturer’s guideline. Immunofluorescent staining of Fas in basal cell carcinomas was performed with an antibody specific to mouse Fas (M20; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA).
Cell Culture and Cell Viability Assay.
The mouse basal cell carcinoma cell line ASZ001 was maintained in 154CF medium as reported previously (17)
. Ectopic expression of Gli1 in ASZ001 cells was induced using LipofectAmine 2000, and the transfected cells were enriched by cell sorting after coexpression of green fluorescence protein and Gli1 (green fluorescence protein to Gli1 plasmid ratio = 1:4). C3H10T1/2 cells were cultured in basal medium containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum. GLI-transformed baby rat kidney cells were cultured in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum (18)
. ASZ001 cells were first treated with 2 µmol/L 3-keto-N-aminoethylaminoethylcaproyldihydrocinnamoyl cyclopamine (KAAD-cyclopamine) for 36 hours in the presence or absence of 10 µg/mL epidermal growth factor or platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-AA (R&D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, MN) or treated with U0126 alone (10 µmol/L; EMD Biosciences, Inc., San Diego, CA) for 36 hours. Cells were then harvested for protein expression and cell viability analyses. Cell viability was assessed by trypan blue exclusion and colorimetric 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay (19)
. The proliferation inhibition was calculated by dividing the mean test value by the respective PBS control. The background absorbance, obtained from the wells treated with DMSO only, was subtracted from the test- and control-well values to yield corrected absorbance. Triplicates for each sample were used, and all experiments were performed in triplicate (19)
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Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting.
Cells were plated at 3,000,000 cells per 10-cm plate in 154CF without growth supplements the day before treatment. KAAD-cyclopamine (Toronto Research Chemicals, Inc., North York, Ontario, Canada) was added to the medium to achieve a final concentration of 2 µmol/L, and the cells were incubated for 36 hours. Epidermal growth factor and PDGF-A were used at a final concentration of 10 µg/mL, U0126 at a final concentration of 10 µmol/L, and Fas ligand (FasL)–neutralizing antibodies at a final concentration of 20 µg/mL were added to the medium. Subsequently, cells were collected and fixed overnight in 70% etomidate and treated with 50 ng/mL propidium iodide in the presence of 10 µg/mL RNase A (in PBS). Cell cycle profiles were determined by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACSCaliber; Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ). At least 20,000 gated events were recorded for each sample, and the data were analyzed with Multicycle software for Windows (Phoenix Flow Systems, San Diego, CA). ASZ001 cells with ectopic Gli1 expression were enriched through cell sorting, resulting in >90% of the cells with Gli1 expression (from a starting population of 5% positive cells). Both positive and negative fractions were collected for Western blot analysis.
Western Blot Analysis and ELISA.
Western blotting was performed as previously reported (17)
, with specific antibodies [anti-PDGFR-
and antimouse Fas antibodies from Upstate Biotechnology (Lake Placid, NY); anti-Erk, anti-phospho-Erk and anti-caspase-3 antibodies from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA); anti-ß-actin from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO); and antihuman Fas and anti-FasL from BD Transduction Laboratories (San Diego, CA)]. ELISA detection of secreted FasL protein in the growth medium was performed using a kit from R&D Systems, Inc., according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
Real-time PCR Analyses.
Total RNAs from ASZ001 cells were extracted using RNAqueous from Ambion, Inc. (Austin, TX). We used Applied Biosystems’ (Foster City, Ca) assays-by-design 20x assay mix of primers and TaqMan probes (carboxyfluorescein dye-labeled probe) for the target genes [mouse Gli1, hedgehog interacting protein (HIP)] and predeveloped 18S rRNA (VIC dye-labeled probe) TaqMan assay reagent (P/N 4319413E) for an internal control. Mouse Gli1 and HIP primers are designed to span exon-exon junctions so as not to detect genomic DNA, and the primers and probe sequences were searched against the Celera database to confirm specificity. The primer and probe sequences of mouse Gli1 and HIP are as follows.
To obtain the relative quantitation of gene expression, a validation experiment was performed to test the efficiency of the target amplification and the efficiency of the reference amplification. All absolute values of the slope of log input amount versus 
CT were <0.1. Separate tubes (singleplex) one-step reverse transcription-PCR was performed with 20 ng of RNA for both target gene (mGli1 or mHIP) and endogenous control. The reagent we used was TaqMan one-step reverse transcription-PCR master mix reagent kit (P/N 4309169). The cycling parameters for one-step reverse transcription-PCR was reverse transcription 48°C for 30 minutes, AmpliTaq activation 95°C for 10 minutes, denaturation 95°C for 15 seconds, and annealing/extension 60°C for 1 minute (repeat 40 times) on ABI7000. Triplicate CT values were analyzed in Microsoft Excel using the comparative CT (CT) method as described by the manufacturer (Applied Biosystems). The amount of target (2-CT) was obtained by normalization to an endogenous reference (18 rRNA) and relative to a calibrator.
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. Cyclopamine-treated mice also had fewer visible basal cell carcinomas at age 52 weeks than did the vehicle-treated controls (Fig. 2, A and B)
. Thus, the mice receiving vehicle alone continued to develop visible tumors, and the number of tumors had tripled by week 52. We found that mice receiving cyclopamine developed 50% fewer new basal cell carcinomas than did the control group at week 52 (Fig. 2, A and C)
, and the difference is statistically significant (P = 0.0078 by nonparametric test, Mann-Whitney test). More importantly, the number of visible squamous cell carcinomas and spindle cell tumors did not differ between the two groups, showing the specificity of cyclopamine for basal cell carcinomas in this mouse model (Fig. 2C)
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, confirming that cyclopamine inhibits the Hh pathway in these cells. Treatment of ASZ001 cells for 36 hours with cyclopamine or Cur61414 caused a dose-dependent decrease in cell viability (Fig. 3B)
. A SMO antagonist, Cur61414, showed an effect similar to that of cyclopamine (Fig. 3B)
. A similar result was also obtained from the trypan blue exclusion analysis (data not shown). The closely related compound tomatidine, which does not affect SMO signaling and thus served as a negative control, had little discernible effect on the viability of the ASZ001 cells (Fig. 3B)
. Additional evidence that cyclopamine-mediated inhibition of cell growth is dependent on activated Hh signaling came from studies in primary mouse keratinocytes (Hh pathway inactivated), which did not respond to cyclopamine treatment (data not shown). In ASZ001 cells, cyclopamine treatment did not promote cellular differentiation, and hence, the dramatic reduction in the number of living cells suggested that cyclopamine might be inducing apoptosis.
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, suggesting that cyclopamine is a potent inducer of apoptosis in basal cell carcinomas. Treatment of ASZ001 cells with either cyclopamine or Cur61414 for 36 hours (see Materials and Methods for details) increased the level of activated caspase-3, a major executioner of cysteinyl aspartate-specific proteinases for apoptosis (Fig. 3C)
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Confirming our in vitro findings, direct injection of cyclopamine into basal cell carcinoma-bearing mice for 72 hours enhanced apoptosis (an increase in TUNEL-positive cells) of basal cell carcinoma tumor cells in vivo (Fig. 3D)
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Active Fas/FasL Interactions Are Necessary for Cyclopamine-induced Cell Death.
Because treatment of human basal cell carcinomas with IFN- may be accompanied by increased Fas expression in the tumor (19
, 22) , we tested whether cyclopamine, too, can augment Fas expression. Indeed, cyclopamine substantially increased the level of Fas protein in ASZ001 cells (Fig. 4A)
. In contrast, we detected FasL protein irrespective of cyclopamine treatment (Fig. 4A)
. Using an ELISA assay, we detected FasL in the culture medium of ASZ001 cells, indicating that these basal cell carcinoma cells indeed secrete FasL protein (see Fig. 5B
for details). Thus, Fas would appear to be the limiting factor for the FasL/Fas signaling axis in this basal cell carcinoma cell line. Conversely, Fas is down-regulated in C3H10T1/2 cells with stable expression of activated SMO via retrovirus-mediated gene transfer (Fig. 4B)
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) and the induction of Fas expression and apoptosis in Ptch1+/– mouse basal cell carcinomas by treatment with either cyclopamine (Fig. 4D)
or by Cur 61414 (data not shown). Specifically, Fas protein expression increased after cyclopamine injection (either s.c. injection or intratumoral injection), and this was accompanied by increased TUNEL-positive cells (Figs. 3F
and 4D
). Immunofluorescent staining revealed a membrane localization of Fas protein in basal cell carcinoma cells (indicated by the arrowhead in the insert of Fig. 4D
). Thus, it appears that Fas expression is elevated in the presence of SMO antagonists both in cultured cell lines and in basal cell carcinomas induced in Ptch1+/– mice.
On the basis of these results, we predicted that either (a) interruption of the FasL/Fas signaling axis or (b) inhibition of the downstream apoptosis-effector caspase 8 activity would prevent cyclopamine-induced apoptosis. To test this hypothesis, we inactivated FasL/Fas signaling using neutralizing antibodies against FasL. By depleting FasL molecules (Fig. 5B)
, the cyclopamine-mediated decrease in cell viability was rescued (Fig. 6, C and D)
. Neutralizing antibodies against FasL also decreased the level of caspase-3 (Fig. 5C)
. Furthermore, administration of the caspase-8 inhibitor Z-IETD-FMK (25)
abrogated the cyclopamine-mediated activation of caspase-3 (Fig. 5C)
. Thus, our data provide direct evidence that the FasL/Fas signaling axis is an important mediator of cyclopamine-induced apoptosis in basal cell carcinomas.
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and phospho-Erk, indicating an inhibitory effect on Ras-Erk signaling in ASZ001 cell (Fig. 6B)
. As a result, PDGF-A had no effect on cyclopamine-mediated caspase-3 activation, Fas induction, or cell death (see Fig. 6, D and E
, for details). In contrast, epidermal growth factor, which can activate the Ras-Erk pathway through the epidermal growth factor receptor, did inhibit cyclopamine-mediated accumulation of the sub-G1 population (Fig. 6C)
, Fas expression (Fig. 6D)
, caspase-3 activation (Fig. 6D)
, and cell death (Fig. 6E)
. Furthermore, addition of the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase inhibitor U0126 alone was sufficient to induce caspase-3 in ASZ001 cells (Fig. 6D)
. Consistent with these data, ASZ001 cells in which PDGFR- and active Raf were overexpressed resisted cyclopamine treatment (data not shown), providing additional information that inhibition of PDGFR- and subsequent down-regulation of Ras-Erk signaling is an important mechanism whereby cyclopamine induces apoptosis in basal cell carcinomas.
Our model predicts that overexpression of Gli1 in ASZ001 cells under a strong promoter (such as the cytomegalovirus promoter) would constitutively activate the Hh pathway, which could render these basal cell carcinoma cells resistant to cyclopamine treatment. Indeed, cyclopamine did not induce apoptosis in constitutive Gli1-expressing ASZ001 cells, as indicated by lack of TUNEL staining and of procaspase-3 cleavage (Fig. 6, F and G)
. As a result of constitutive Gli1 overexpression, PDGFR- remained unchanged even after cyclopamine treatment (Fig. 6G)
. In addition, Fas protein was not induced by cyclopamine in constitutive Gli1-expressing ASZ001 cells (Fig. 6G)
. The ability of Gli-1 overexpression to abrogate cyclopamine-mediated cell death was additionally confirmed by flow cytometry analysis (data not shown). Although cyclopamine caused an increase in the sub-G1 population in Gli1-negative cells, no such change was observed in Gli1-expressing ASZ001 cells. These data indicate that ectopic expression of Gli1 under the cytomegalovirus promoter prevents cyclopamine-induced changes in the expression of PDGFR-, Fas, and apoptosis.
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Our data indicate that cyclopamine inhibits the Hh pathway in basal cell carcinomas, as indicated by down-regulation of the target genes HIP and Gli1 (Fig. 3, A and B)
. We additionally demonstrate that induction of Fas expression (both the protein and the RNA levels) and consequent activation of the FasL/Fas signaling axis is necessary for cyclopamine-mediated apoptosis because cell death is blocked in vitro by anti-FasL antibodies. Thus, it appears that Fas expression is suppressed by the activity of the Ras-Erk pathway in basal cell carcinoma cells, and overexpression of Gli1, PDGFR-, or active Raf (all downstream of Ptch1) renders ASZ001 cells resistant to cyclopamine-induced apoptosis (Fig. 6, E and F)
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Furthermore, addition of a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase inhibitor U0126 alone is sufficient to induce Fas expression and apoptosis in ASZ001 cells (Fig. 6, C and D)
. We have analyzed promoter sequences of human and mouse Fas genes and found multiple copies of serum response elements and Ras-responsive elements, suggesting that the Ras/Erk pathway can regulate transcription of murine and human Fas directly.9
These data are consistent with a previous report showing that cyclopamine causes apoptosis in subsets of small-cell lung cancer and medulloblastomas in the presence of low concentrations of newborn bovine serum in which growth factor content is quite low (9
, 11)
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Because Fas is regulated at multiple levels, it will be interesting to determine whether other mechanisms, including altered Fas membrane translocation, could be involved in cyclopamine-mediated Fas up-regulation.
Because cyclopamine exerts its effects through direct association with SMO, tumors with genetic mutations downstream of SMO may not be sensitive to cyclopamine treatment. We have found that cyclopamine does not cause apoptosis in ASZ001 cells with Gli1 overexpression under the cytomegalovirus promoter (Fig. 6, F and G)
or in Gli1-transformed RK3E cells.11
Similarly, cells expressing activated SMO are resistant to cyclopamine (31)
. Thus, studies on the genetic mutations in specific target tumors could be helpful in predicting the effectiveness of cyclopamine treatment. Effective treatment of tumors with mutations of genes encoding proteins acting downstream of Smo will require identification of novel small molecular weight compounds acting downstream of SMO signaling. However, because most basal cell carcinomas do contain loss-of-function mutations of PTCH1, cyclopamine should represent an effective and specific agent for basal cell carcinoma therapy, as well as for those visceral cancers with Hh signaling activation, which thus far appears to be driven by overexpression of sonic Hh.
In summary, our results indicate that chronic administration of the SMO antagonist cyclopamine is effective in preventing basal cell carcinoma development in vivo. We demonstrate that cyclopamine inhibits Hh signaling and thereby exerts its effects through induction of Fas expression, leading to activation of the FasL/Fas signaling axis and apoptosis. It is likely that SMO antagonists capable of inhibiting Hh activation and inducing Fas expression hold great promise as a mechanism-directed approach for the treatment of basal cell carcinomas.
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The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
Note: M. Athar and C. Li contributed equally to this article.
Requests for reprints: Jingwu Xie, Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-1048. E-mail: jinxie{at}utmb.edu; or Mohammad Athar, Department of Dermatology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032. E-mail: ma493{at}columbia.edu
11 J. Xie and C. Li, unpublished data. 
Received 4/20/04. Revised 6/20/04. Accepted 8/18/04.
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