Abstract
The ectopic overexpression of transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) has been detected in numerous solid cancers, including breast, prostate, pancreatic, and tongue epithelium cancer. However, the expression of TRPV1 in hematological malignancies remains unknown. Here we show through in silico analysis that elevated TRPV1 mRNA expression occurs in a range of hematological malignancies and presents an optimized flow cytometry method to rapidly assess TRPV1 protein expression for both cell lines and primary patient samples. Three anti-TRPV1 antibodies were evaluated for intracellular TRPV1 detection using flow cytometry resulting in an optimized protocol for the evaluation of TRPV1 in hematological malignant cell lines and patients’ peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). Overexpression of TRPV1 was observed in THP-1 (acute monocytic leukemia) and U266B1 (multiple myeloma, MM), but not U937 (histiocytic lymphoma) compared to healthy PBMC. TRPV1 was also detected in all 49 patients including B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (B-NHL), MM, and others and 20 healthy controls. TRPV1 expression was increased in 8% of patients (MM = 2, B-NHL = 2). In conclusion, we provide an optimized flow cytometry method for routine expression analysis of clinical samples and show that TRPV1 is increased in a subset of patients with hematological malignancies.
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Introduction
The transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) protein is a transmembrane, non-selective cation channel activated by a variety of stimuli, including heat, acidic pH, capsaicinoids, and other plant-derived vanilloids [1]. Although renowned as a nociceptive receptor, TRPV1 expression has been detected in many cancers, including glioma [2], breast cancer [3], prostate cancer [4], colon adenocarcinoma [5], and pancreatic cancer [6]. Significantly, capsaicin, a vanilloid and TRPV1 agonist, was found to be cytotoxic to a number of cancer cell lines through both TRPV1-dependent and -independent mechanisms raising the prospect that TRPV1 expression can be exploited therapeutically [7,8,9]. To date, there has only been a limited assessment of TRPV1 expression in either normal blood cells or hematological malignancies [10]. TRPV1 has been detected in rat blood neutrophils [11], microglia, the brain-resident macrophage [12], and human blood leukocytes [13, 14]. TRPV1 protein was also detected in human dendritic cells (DC) as it plays a role in DC maturation [15], while there remains controversy regarding TRPV1 protein and mRNA expression in mice DC [16, 17]. The activation of TRPV1 and its role in THP-1 monocyte migration and adhesion and U937 cell apoptosis have been previously studied [18,19,20]. Recently, Punzo et al. reported that the vanilloid resiniferatoxin, an ultrapotent TRPV1 agonist, produced pro-apoptotic and anti-proliferative signals in primary lymphoblasts from acute T-lymphoblastic leukemia patients. They also detected TRPV1 mRNA in Jurkat cells and patient lymphoblasts [21]. Moreover, treatment of the hematological cells lines THP-1, U266B1, and U937 in vitro with capsaicin causes apoptosis [22].
Given that TRPV1 is a transmembrane protein and the availability of commercial anti-TRPV1 antibodies, flow cytometry is the ideal method for detection. However, previous studies using flow cytometry to analyze TRPV1 expression suffer from insufficient negative or isotype controls or appear to omit permeabilization steps when using antibodies that target intracellular antigens [23,24,25,26,27]. Similarly, non-specific binding was reported with immunohistochemistry using the same antibodies commonly used for flow cytometry when testing TRPV1−/− mice bladder tissue, resulting in false-positive results [28]. This demonstrates that the expression of TRPV1 needs to be re-evaluated.
Materials and methods
In silico RNA-seq data analysis
To determine TRPV1 gene expression levels, TRPV1 in total RNA was extracted from two published RNA-seq datasets. The first dataset was the Microarray Innovations in leukemia (MILE) dataset [29], which characterized the gene expression profile for 3252 adult and pediatric patients with leukemias. The second data were obtained from the Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) (https://ocg.cancer.gov/programs/target) initiative, phs000218. TRPV1 gene expression in the TARGET acute myeloid leukemia (AML) dataset (phs000465) was extracted and is available at https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/projects. TARGET utilized next-generation sequencing to characterize alterations in both gene expression and genomic structure in more than 200 pediatric AML patients. Both datasets were selected because they investigated adult and pediatric leukemias and reported expression levels in normal healthy controls. TRPV1 gene expression was plotted as fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads (FPKM) for clinical data using GraphPad Prism© (v 8.4.2, San Diego, CA, USA). Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test (One-way ANOVA) was used for statistical analysis.
Patient blood collection
Peripheral whole blood was collected from healthy adult donors and patients with hematological malignancies using sterile venipuncture. Blood was collected into EDTA (for flow cytometry) and CPT Vacutainer® tubes (BD Biosciences, San Jose, USA), to isolate patients PBMCs for Western blot. The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee Network, Tasmania (H0011050).
Cell culture
THP-1 cells (ECACC, UK) were cultured in RPMI1640 (Life Technologies, Grand Island, USA) supplemented with 20% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (Life Technologies), 2 mM glutamine, 100 U/mL penicillin, and 100 µg/mL streptomycin. U266B1 and U937 cell lines (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) were cultured in RPMI1640 containing 2 mM l-glutamine, 10 mM HEPES, 1 mM sodium pyruvate, 4.5 g/L glucose, and 1.5 g/L sodium bicarbonate and supplemented with 15% and 10% FBS, respectively. A cell passage less than 10 was used to perform all experiments, and all cell lines were authenticated by suppliers before purchasing.
Flow cytometry protocol development
Three polyclonal rabbit anti-TRPV1 antibodies [SC-20813, purified by proprietary techniques (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, CA, USA), ACC-030, affinity purified on immobilized antigen (Alomone Labs, Jerusalem, Israel), LS-C150735, affinity purified (Lifespan Biosciences, WA, USA), and polyclonal IgG goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody-FITC (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) were initially assessed. Testing of fixation and permeabilization kits [CALTAG™ (Life Technologies); Cytofix/Cytoperm™ (BD Biosciences)], blocking agents [AB serum (from a healthy donor), 10% goat serum (Life Technologies), FcR blocking reagent (Miltenyi Biotechnology, Cologne, Germany) and a mixture of 10% human AB serum, 1% BSA and 0.05% sodium azide, and goat serum mix (10% goat serum + 0.1% BSA + 0.05% sodium azide)] was also performed. Isotype control rabbit IgG, sc-3888 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) was used as a negative control in a same quantity/dilution as the primary anti-TRPV1 in all experiments. Exclusion of TRPV1 antibody was used as an additional negative control. Protocols were developed to produce the best signal (specific binding) to noise (non-specific binding) ratio for Western blotting and separation of TRPV1 signal from isotype control for flow cytometry.
Western blotting
Cultured cells or patients PBMCs were lysed, protein extracted, and the concentration was measured as previously described [14]. Protein samples were diluted 1:1 with Laemmli buffer-2-ME. Samples were then heated for 5 min at 95 °C and loaded onto SDS-PAGE gels (Mini-PROTEAN® TGX™ Precast Gels, Bio-Rad Laboratories, CA, USA). PageRuler™ plus prestained protein (Fermentas, Thermo Scientific, Burlington, Canada) and MagicMark™ XP (Life Technologies) were used as ladders. The protein samples were electrophoresed at 200 V for 45 min using a running buffer containing 25 mM Tris, 192 mM glycine, and 0.1% SDS, pH 8.3 (Bio-Rad Laboratories, CA, USA) at 4 °C. Protein bands were transferred to PVDF membranes at 95 V for 1 h at 4 °C. The membranes were blocked with 3% BSA, 5% non-fat milk, 0.05% Tween-20 in phosphate buffered saline (PBST), for 1 h at RT on an orbital shaker. The membranes were then washed for 5 min with PBST and incubated at 4 °C overnight with rabbit polyclonal anti-TRPV1 (LifeSpan Biosciences, WA, USA) at 1:10,000 in the blocking buffer. The blots were then washed with PBST for 5 min (4X) and incubated for 1 h with goat anti-rabbit IgG-HRP (Cell Signaling Technology, MA, USA) at 1:5000 in the blocking buffer and then washed. The membranes were developed with chemiluminescence using the Immobilon™ Western detection kit (Millipore, MA, USA) for 5 min and visualized using LAS-3000 Image reader (Fuji, Tokyo, Japan). Membranes were re-washed, re-blocked for 20 min, and re-incubated for 2 h with rabbit monoclonal anti-human GAPDH (Cell Signaling Technology) at 1:3000 in the blocking buffer. Membranes were subsequently washed, stained, and visualized. Forty micrograms of protein lysate were loaded for all control and patient samples. THP-1 cells were used as a positive control [19].
Flow cytometry
One million cells were surface stained with CD45-PerCP (clone 2D1), and CD3-Brilliant Violet™ 421 (clone UCHT1), or CD14-V500 (clone M5E2), and CD19-PE (clone HIB19), all from BD Biosciences and incubated for 10 min in the dark at RT. Erythrocytes were then lysed for 10 min at RT using FACS Lyse solution (BD Biosciences). Cells were centrifuged at 350×g for 5 min and then washed twice in PBSA (10% FBS, 0.1% sodium azide in PBS). Cells were fixed for 20 min at 4 °C using BD Cytofix/Cytoperm™ kit and then washed twice using the permeabilization buffer. Non-specific binding sites were blocked for 15 min at RT using 10% AB human serum, 1% BSA, and 0.05% sodium azide in the permeabilization buffer. Cells were then intracellularly stained with 0.5 µg of rabbit polyclonal anti-TRPV1 (Lifespan Biosciences) or 0.5 µg (1:25) of isotype control for 45 min at 4 °C. After washing, cells were stained with secondary antibody (1:25) for 20 min at 4 °C and washed twice. Finally, cells were resuspended in Ca2+/Mg2+-free PBS prior to acquisition on the Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer (Applied Biosystems®/Life Technologies, Grand Island, USA). FlowJo™ software (OR, BD, USA) was used to analyze the data. A step-by-step protocol can be found in Supplementary Fig. S1.
Samples from 49 patients and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy subject controls with no history of malignancies were collected and characterized (Table S1). Control samples were run simultaneously and analyzed with patient samples for each experiment. Patients diagnosed with myeloproliferative disorders (MPD) included chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML), chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), and essential thrombocythemia (ET) (n = 1 each). Median fluorescent intensity (MFI) ratio was generated by dividing MFI (patient cells) by MFI (control). The TRPV1 expression was then designated as increased (MFI ratio ≥ 2), decreased (MFI ratio < 0.5), or similar (MFI ratio 0.5–1.9).
Results
TRPV1 is expressed in subsets of hematological malignancies, including AML and ALL
To determine the expression of TRPV1 in hematological malignancies, an in silico analysis was carried out across two clinical RNA-seq datasets and revealed a significantly higher expression of TRPV1 in patients with different subtypes of ALL in the MILE study compared to healthy normal bone marrow (P < 0.0001) (Fig. 1A). Similarly, in the TARGET-AML dataset, TRPV1 expression was significantly increased in pediatric AML patients at diagnosis (P < 0.0001) and relapse (P < 0.0007) compared to healthy subjects (Fig. 1B).
We next sought to validate this expression at the protein level. Western blotting was first performed on THP-1 cells and U266B1 myeloma cells that express TRPV1 monomer (~ 95 kDa) and U266B1 that also expresses a dimer (Fig. 1C). This was then extended to a range of different patient samples, with TRPV1 detected in some patients (MM = 1, B-NHL = 4) (Fig. 1C). However, for routine clinical analysis of protein expression, flow cytometry is preferred.
Optimized intracellular flow cytometry analysis can robustly determine TRPV1 expression in clinical samples. The majority of commercially available TRPV1 antibodies target intracellular epitopes. Some studies that employed a flow cytometric method to determine TRPV1 expression did not describe permeabilization step or include appropriate isotype control which affect the validity of the result [17, 26, 30]. To this end, three commercial anti-TRPV1 antibodies were assessed that bind different intracellular regions at the C- and N termini (Fig. 2A). Both the rabbit anti-TRPV1 antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, SC-20813) and the rabbit anti-human TRPV1 antibody (Alomone Labs, ACC-030) were not able to distinguish TRPV1 expression over isotype controls (Fig. 2B,C), even when alternative blocking methods, including 10% goat serum, human AB serum, or FcR blocking reagents were used (data not shown). The rabbit anti-TRPV1 antibody (Lifespan Biosciences, LS-C150735) reliably detected TRPV1 expression with excellent separation of the TRPV1 signal from the isotype control and revealed a quantitative differential expression in cell lines: THP-1 > U266B1 > U937, with the latter being comparable to healthy control PBMCs (Fig. 2D, and Table S2). Median fluorescence intensity (MFI) within healthy PBMC subpopulations was as follows: CD19-B cells (1.36 × 105) > CD14 monocytes (1.21 × 105) > CD3-T cells (0.96 × 105). Using this optimized protocol and staining methods, we analyzed 49 primary patient samples (Fig. 2E; Tables S3–S5).
Based on the distribution of the MFI ratio for all patients, ectopically high TRPV1 expression was deemed to be an MFI of twofold over normal healthy controls. Using this cut-off, increased TRPV1 expression was detected in 8.2% of patients (4/49). Of these, two had MM (Table S3) and two B-NHL (Table S4). Of the 24 under-treatment and four de novo B-NHL patients, TRPV1 was found to be similar to healthy control in 26 patients. However, TRPV1 was increased in 2 females diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, who were under-treatment (one with radiation only and the latter on Rituximab) (Table S4). Furthermore, with the nine under-treatment and three de novo MM patients, TRPV1 expression was found to be similar (n = 10) or increased (n = 2, a de novo with lambda, B-2-microglobulinimia, and an under-treatment patient with Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia) compared to controls (Table S3). TRPV1 in patients with other hematological malignancies (n = 9) were all found to be similar to controls (Fig. 2E.2, Table S5). The four patients (8.2%) with increased TRPV1-MFI ratios had the highest MFI values (mean ± SD; 308,783 ± 145,474) relative to other patients (154,178 ± 100,242). C-reactive protein (CRP) values were elevated (≥ 5 mg/L) in 25% of the 44/49 patients measured, ranged from 1 to 106 mg/L.
Discussion
This is the first study to report an optimized method to detect TRPV1 expression using flow cytometry in hematological malignancies. Numerous previous studies have analyzed TRPV1 expression during carcinogenesis [31]. Overexpression of TRPV1 has been reported in solid cancers, including glioma [32] and human tongue epithelium cancer [33], whereas lower expression was reported in urothelial cancer [34, 35]. Capsaicin induced TRPV1-dependent apoptosis in some cancers, such as prostate [36]. Therefore, increased TRPV1 expression in blood cancers could create a new therapeutic target to treat these conditions. In the present study, a TRPV1 monomer (~ 95 kDa), which represents the non-glycosylated form of the molecule [37], was found to be strongly expressed in both THP-1 and U266B1 cells with a TRPV1 dimer (~ 200 kDa) also detected in the latter and both with higher expression compared to healthy controls.
Significantly, we have for the first time established a robust flow cytometry protocol for the rapid evaluation of TRPV1 expression. The affinity-purified anti-TRPV1 antibody (Lifespan Biosciences, LS-C150735) provided excellent separation of TRPV1 and isotype signals. This was in contrast to the affinity purified anti-TRPV1 antibodies from Alomone Labs and Santa Cruz Biotechnology which were unable to separate the TRPV1 signal from the isotype control, suggesting a lack of specificity for TRPV1. As TRPV1 was suggested to be ubiquitously distributed in all human cells [38, 39], negative controls are warranted to distinguish a true expression of TRPV1 from false-positive expression, with the ultimate negative control to test the specificity of the primary antibody would be the implementation of knockdown/knockout cells [40].
Using our optimized protocol, TRPV1 was detected in the PBMC fraction of all 49 patients with hematological malignancies, including B-NHL, MM, and a range of other malignancies. TRPV1 expression was increased in ~ 8% of patients, but was not significantly different between MM and other hematological malignancy cohort, nor between de novo (untreated) and patients undergoing treatment. Differential expression of TRPV1 in subsets of patients with different hematological malignancies with higher TRPV1 expression in some of these groups compared to normal blood. One of the limitations of the present study is that TRPV1 expression was determined in single samples from individual patients who were at different stages of the disease and chemotherapy. Further studies of TRPV1 expression in a larger patient cohort and changes in TRPV1 expression over time, following chemotherapeutic intervention would allow what contribution altered TRPV1 expression, if any, plays in the pathogenesis, progression, and chemotherapy-induced remission of individual hematological malignancies.
In conclusion, we present a robust, optimized flow cytometric method to measure TRPV1 expression and demonstrate increased expression of TRPV1 in THP-1 and U266B1 malignant hematological cells as well as in a subset of MM and B-NHL patients. The results from this study warrant further research into whether this may be exploited therapeutically using capsaicin or other vanilloids.
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Omari, S.A., Geraghty, D.P., Khalafallah, A.A. et al. Optimized flow cytometric detection of transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) in human hematological malignancies. Med Oncol 39, 81 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-022-01678-z
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