Transcriptome profiling of A549 non-small cell lung cancer cells in response to Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae excretory/secretory products

Haoxuan Wang; Yingying Zhu; Meichen Li; Jingdan Pan; Dan Li; Wen-Ping Guo; Guangcheng Xie; Luanying Du

doi:10.3389/fvets.2023.1208538

Transcriptome profiling of A549 non-small cell lung cancer cells in response to Trichinella spiralis muscle larvae excretory/secretory products

Front Vet Sci. 2023 Jul 31:10:1208538. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1208538. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Haoxuan Wang¹, Yingying Zhu¹, Meichen Li², Jingdan Pan³, Dan Li¹, Wen-Ping Guo¹, Guangcheng Xie¹, Luanying Du¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathogenic Biology, Chengde Medical University, Chengde, Hebei, China.
² Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
³ Department of Laboratory, North China University of Science and Technology Affiliated Hospital, Tangshan, Hebei, China.

Abstract

Trichinella spiralis (T. spiralis) muscle-larva excretory/secretory products (ML-ESPs) is a complex array of proteins with antitumor activity. We previously demonstrated that ML-ESPs inhibit the proliferation of A549 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell line. However, the mechanism of ML-ESPs against A549 cells, especially on the transcriptional level, remains unknow. In this study, we systematically investigated a global profile bioinformatics analysis of transcriptional response of A549 cells treated with ML-ESPs. And then, we further explored the transcriptional regulation of genes related to glucose metabolism in A549 cells by ML-ESPs. The results showed that ML-ESPs altered the expression of 2,860 genes (1,634 upregulated and 1,226 downregulated). GO and KEGG analysis demonstrated that differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were mainly associated with pathway in cancer and metabolic process. The downregulated genes interaction network of metabolic process is mainly associated with glucose metabolism. Furthermore, the expression of phosphofructokinase muscle (PFKM), phosphofructokinase liver (PFKL), enolase 2 (ENO2), lactate dehydrogenase B (LDHB), 6-phosphogluconolactonase (6PGL), ribulose-phosphate-3-epimerase (PRE), transketolase (TKT), transaldolase 1 (TALDO1), which genes mainly regulate glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), were suppressed by ML-ESPs. Interestingly, tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA)-related genes, such as pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase 1 (PDP1), PDP2, aconitate hydratase 1 (ACO1) and oxoglutarate dehydrogenase (OGDH) were upregulated by ML-ESPs. In summary, the transcriptome profiling of A549 cells were significantly altered by ML-ESPs. And we also provide new insight into how ML-ESPs induced a transcriptional reprogramming of glucose metabolism-related genes in A549 cells.

Keywords: Trichinella spiralis; excretory/secretory products; glucose metabolism; non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells; transcriptome.