Song Wang1†Long Qian2†Tingting Cao1†Li Xu2
Yan Jin2Hao Hu2Qingsheng Fu2
Qian Li2Ye Wang2Jiawei Wang2Yabin Xia2
Xiaoxu Huang2*- 1Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, China
- 2Key Laboratory of Non-coding RNA Transformation Research of Anhui Higher Education Institution, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, China
Recent studies have revealed that circRNAs can affect tumor DNA damage and repair, apoptosis, proliferation, and invasion and influence the transport of intratumor substances by acting as miRNA sponges and transcriptional regulators and binding to proteins in a variety of ways. However, research on the role of circRNAs in cancer radiotherapy and chemoresistance is still in its early stages. Chemotherapy is a common approach to oncology treatment, but the development of tumor resistance limits the overall clinical efficacy of chemotherapy for cancer patients. The current study suggests that circRNAs have a facilitative or inhibitory effect on the development of resistance to conventional chemotherapy in a variety of tumors, suggesting that circRNAs may serve as a new direction for the study of antitumor drug resistance. In this review, we will briefly discuss the biological features of circRNAs and summarize the recent progression of the involvement of circRNAs in the development and pathogenesis of cancer chemoresistance.
Background
Circular RNA was first found in plant viroid (1), yeast mitochondrial RNA (2). Unlike linear RNA with 5 ‘cap and 3’ tail as terminals, circular RNA is characterized by a covalently closed loop structure with neither 5’to 3 ‘polarity nor polyadenylate tail. This inherent feature led to the widespread underestimation of circular RNA in previous polyadenylated transcriptome analysis. With the advent of specific biochemical and stoichiometric methods, a large number of circular RNA formed by reverse splicing of exons have been found in different cell lines and different species (3). Among them, circular RNA(circRNA), along with their modifiers, have been investigated to play key roles in regulating tumor development and mediating therapy resistance within various cancers, such as hepatocellular carcinoma, breast cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, etc. First, almost all of the reported circRNA functions through four classic mechanisms, including:1, miRNA sponge mechanisms 2, sponging of RBPs (RNA-binding proteins)3, regulation of transcription 4, translation into peptides or proteins. In addition, two limitations regarding the generation of tumor drug resistance are raised. First, the existing reports on circRNAs in cancer chemoresistance are limited to a few classical drugs and a few types of cancers. Second, most reported circRNAs, limited to those identified in cancer, remain unstudied in the context of the cancer therapeutic response, particularly radioresistance, and numerous unidentified circRNAs remain to be studied. As these limitations are gradually overcome, potential interventions targeting circRNAs are expected to overcome cancer resistance to radiation and chemotherapy (4, 5). We searched for “circRNA”, “cancer” and “drug resistance” in Pubmed, and obtained a total of 351 relevant papers, and then identified the papers that fit the topic of this paper by preliminary screening of these 351 papers, and the results were 158. According to recent studies, circRNAs mainly (1) upregulate drug efflux transporters or downregulate influx channels, (2) enhance epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stemness, (3) alter the copy number of target genes and activation of bypass pathways or downstream signaling, (4) alter endoplasmic reticulum stress, autophagy and phagocytosis, (5) enhance or inhibit DNA repair, (6) impact the tumor microenvironment. Other factors may induce tumor drug resistance but will not be discussed here (4). In this paper, we review the possible tumor drug resistance mechanisms associated with circRNAs and their research progress in the context of chemoresistance by categorizing and summarizing a large number of relevant studies. It also discussed the limitations of available knowledge and future potential directions. The statistics are shown in Figure 1 and Table 1.
Figure 1 Statistics of circRNA related to chemotherapy resistance in different tumors in recent five years.
Table 1 CircRNAs in tumor drug resistance.
CircRNAs Regulate Tumor Drug Resistance by Affecting Intratumor Drug Concentrations
It has been shown that reduced drug concentration is the main cause of drug resistance. This may be due to drug segregation in intracellular vesicles and compartments, increased drug efflux or decreased drug influx. These changes may be due to the remodeling of drug channels and transporters, which broadly include ATP-binding cassette (ABC) family proteins, solute carriers, and volume-regulated anion channels (VRACs). M Saxena et al. mechanistically demonstrated that the promoters of ABC transporter proteins carry binding sites for several EMT-inducible transcription factors and that EMT-related transcription factors, such as Twist, Snail, and FOXC2, and overexpression of these transcription factors increased the promoter activity of ABC transporter proteins. Furthermore, chromatin immunoprecipitation studies showed that Twist binds directly to the E-box element of the ABC transporter protein. EMT inducers were therefore identified as novel regulators of ABC transporter proteins, thus providing a long-term link between aggressiveness and multidrug resistance. Thus, targeting EMT transcription factors could serve as a novel strategy to inhibit tumor metastasis and associated drug resistance (168–171).
According to current reports, circRNAs can increase drug resistance in tumor cells by targeting miRNAs and down-regulating the expression of genes related to drug concentrations in tumors accordingly. For example, in glioma tissues and cell lines, circRNA CEP128 expression was upregulated, and circRNA CEP128 expression was higher in temozolomide-resistant glioma cells than in their parental cells. In contrast, downregulation of circRNA CEP128 inhibited glioma cell proliferation and reduced temozolomide resistance by decreasing the expression of ATP-binding cassette G superfamily member 2 (ABCG2). In addition, miR-145-5p was expressed at low levels in glioma cells and temozolomide-resistant glioma cells, and miR-145-5p was also identified as a target of circRNA CEP128. miR-145-5p overexpression inhibited the proliferation of U251/temozolomide cells and decreased the expression of ATP-binding cassette superfamily member 2, and circRNA CEP128 overexpression blocked these changes (91).
The mRNA and protein levels of ATP-binding cassette transporter protein G2 (ABCG2) were elevated in myeloma adriamycin chemotherapy-resistant cells. Silencing hsa_circ_0007841 in resistant cells reduces the mRNA and protein levels of ABCG2, and re-expression of hsa_circ_0007841 blocks this reduction. Similarly, overexpression of hsa_circ_0007841 effectively upregulated mRNA and protein levels of ABCG2. Inhibition of ABCG2 blocked hsa_circ_0007841 overexpression-induced cellular chemoresistance. In addition, ABCG2 reduced the difference in the half-maximal inhibitory concentration between parental and resistant cells. These findings suggest that hsa_circ_0007841 can promote a pattern of acquired chemoresistance in myeloma cells through the upregulation of ABCG2, providing a new molecular basis for chemotherapy in multiple myeloma (19).
In laryngeal cancer, knockdown of circ_0004507 reduces the protein levels of multidrug resistance-associated protein-1 (MRP1) and multidrug resistance gene 1 (MDR1), which are associated with cellular cassette transporters and confer multidrug resistance to tumor cells by reducing the uptake of anticancer drugs (86).
In hepatocellular carcinoma, circRNA PTGR1 regulates drug resistance to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and the growth tumor cells by regulating the miR-129-5p/ABCC1 axis (172). Additionally, studies of adriamycin resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma have shown that circFOXO3 promotes resistance to adriamycin in by regulating the miR-199a-5p/ATP binding cassette C family member 1 axis (74). However, circRNA circFBXO11 regulates hepatocellular carcinoma progression and oxaliplatin resistance through the miR-605/FOXO3/ABCB1 axis (68), so further study is needed determine whether circFBXO11 regulates circFOXO3 and its downstream signaling through this axis (Figure 2).
Figure 2 CircRNAs inhibit miRNA function throug1h the molecular sponging mechanism, increasing ABC expression and drug efflux to increase tumor cell drug resistance. The protein with * has been proven to be an ABC-related transcription factor, but there is no literature to prove that it is regulated by circRNA.
It can be seen that the effect of circRNA on ABC transporter protein is important and diverse in each type of tumor, but there are various factors that affect the concentration of drugs in tumor cells, and ABC transporter protein is only one of the drug channels. However, it is worth thinking why circRNA are mostly reported to regulate ABC transporter protein.
CircRNAs Enhance EMT and Stemness
Briefly, EMT is an epigenetic program by which cells lose their epithelial phenotype and acquire mesenchymal features. Common EMT-inducible transcription factors, such as twist and snail, which contain complementary binding sites, act as promoters of ABC transporters, and they enhance not only EMT but also ABC transporter expression (4, 171). In recent years, it has been shown that circRNAs can influence tumor cell resistance by enhancing EMT; for example, circ_001680 and circ-NOTCH1 are elevated in colorectal cancer (CRC) and gastric cancer (GC), respectively, and both these circRNAs can promote cancer stem cell (CSC) expansion via EMT (11, 173). Chen et al. showed that failure to eradicate cancer cells that acquire stem cell features through EMT activation or senescence is another reason for impaired cancer treatment outcomes (174–177). Second, CSCs are able to remain dormant for a long period of time to escape harmful stresses such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Once harmful stress is lifted, CSCs can differentiate, proliferate or metastasize at the primary lesion and subsequently invade other organs, leading to tumor recurrence or metastasis (178, 179). For example, circFOXO3 reduction promotes prostate cancer progression and doxorubicin resistance. circFOXO3 inhibits prostate cancer cell survival, migration, invasion, and doxorubicin resistance, which is associated with circFOXO3-mediated inhibition of Foxo3 and EMT (116).
Nithila A. Joseph et al. showed that in lung adenocarcinoma cells, circRNA CCDC66 increases SUMOlyation modifications related to the HGF-MET signaling pathway and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-controlled SAE2 through association with EMT and thus affects the resistance of tumor cells to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) targeting EGFR (180). Among them, SAE2 is one of the subunits of SUMO-activating enzyme E1, and SUMO-mediated modifications have been shown to be importantly associated with the proliferation, migration and invasion of a variety of tumors (181, 182). We found that circRNA CCDC66 has been reported to be associated with mechanisms of chemoresistance generation not only in lung adenocarcinoma cells but also in gastrointestinal tumors; for example, DHX9 phosphorylation induced by oxaliplatin chemotherapy in colorectal cancer promotes the expression of oncogenic circRNA CCDC66 to affect chemoresistance (183), and circRNA CCDC66 in gastric cancer through the miR-618/BCL2 axis regulates cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer (150). More data is needed to assess the resistance induced by different mechanisms of different drugs yet related to the same circRNA (Figure 3).
Figure 3 CircRNAs regulate the stem cells of tumor cells by affecting the expression of EMT- and stemness-related proteins, which leads to chemotherapy resistance.
It is thus clear that circRNA also has an important role in the regulation of EMT and stemness. However, EMT and stemness is different from the regulation of drug channel proteins, and changes often imply an all-round overall effcet in EMT and stemness. Therefore, it is clear that since circRNA can enhance drug resistance by regulating EMT and stemness, circRNA must have other regulatory functions while enhancing EMT and stemness. In short, the effect of circRNA on tumors, too, is holistic. For example, the circ-CPA4 regulated cell growth, mobility, stemness and drug resistance in NSCLC cells and inactivated CD8 T cells in the tumor immune microenvironment (25).
CircRNAs Alter the Copy Number of Target Genes and Activate Bypass Pathways or Downstream Signaling
CircRNAs Compete for Endogenous MiRNAs
CircRNAs competitively bind miRNAs (184, 185), so as to serve as intracellular competitive endogenous RNA, suppressing the effects of miRNAs on target genes. For example, the circRNA AKT3 enhances cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer by inhibiting miR-198 and upregulating PIK3R1, which was experimentally shown to be a downstream molecule of miR-198 (151). PIK3R1 encodes a regulatory subunit of PI3K and has a role in positively regulating the PI3K signaling pathway. The autophagic process also requires phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI3P), and the inhibition of PI3P can inhibit the formation of autophagic vesicles. Whether PI3K can affect tumor cell drug resistance through the regulation of autophagy deserves further study.
In addition, some studies have shown that circRNA can promote its own loop and form positive feedback by up-regulating the expression of downstream transcription factors. For example, in gastric cancer, circFAM73A increases the expression of HMG (high mobility group) A2 through miR-490-3p, HMGA2 plays a dichotomous role in regulating circFAM73A ex-pression, i.e., HMGA2 facilitates the transcriptional acti-vation of FAM73A by E2F1 and elevates the efficiency of circFAM73A circularization by HNRNPL, HMGA2 promotes stem cell-like properties and cell malignancy in GC cells (164). It is worth considering whether this process of positive feedback loops to improve tumor drug resistance is common. With regard to circRNA and its sponge miRNA, through a large number of literature review and summary, we find that there is often more than one miRNA combined with each other under the same circRNA. For example, also in non-small cell lung cancer, circRNAPRMT5 can target miR-381-3p (24) and miR-4458 (26) to regulate the expression of different downstream proteins to promote tumor, and the same circ_007630 can also target miR-296-5p (31) and miR-186-5p (51) respectively. Interestingly, the same miRNA targets different genes in different tumors and regulates downstream pathways, such as miR-338-3p, which promotes the progressive drug resistance of oral squamous cell carcinoma (99) and ovarian cancer (106) at the same time. As we all know, the effect of circRNA on tumor drug resistance is often the result of a variety of mechanisms, so we need to pay attention to the interaction between various mechanisms and pathways, and pay attention to the integration and analysis of various mechanism information. The coincidence targets in these different pathways provide some support for us to analyze the generation of drug resistance of tumor cells as a whole. For example, miR-338-3p can play a role in promoting drug resistance in a variety of tumors according to current reports (99, 106), but the mechanisms of action are different. It is worth thinking whether the regulatory mechanisms of the same miRNAs in different tumor lines overlap, and if not, what determines the target of miRNAs to exert regulatory effects in tumor cells, and if so, whether it is of limited significance to focus on individual pathways according to most of the current literature. Moreover, we found that there are literatures about target overlap at all three levels of circRNA, miRNA and protein (32, 51, 63, 88, 89, 149).
CircRNAs Function as a Reservoir or a Stabilizing Factor for the MiRNA
Studies have shown that in the progress of chemoresistance of prostate cancer, as circRNA17 is positively correlated with the expression level of miR-181c-5p, this circRNA may not function as a sponge to sequester the miRNAs, but likely function as a reservoir or a stabilizing factor for the miR-181c-5p (117). Mechanistically, speculated the binding of miR-181c-5p with circRNA17 might enhance the miR-181c-5p stability by repressing its degradation through nucleases such as Tudor-SN endonuclease (186). In addition, this stabilizing effect appears particularly significant in vivo during tumor growth and less so in cells grown in tissue culture. The exact details of these phenomena remain to be further determined. CircRNA adsorbs miRNA can prevent the degradation of the latter, which reminds us of the need to add deeper thinking to the traditional study of ceRNA(competing endogenous RNA) mechanism.
CircRNAs Bind RNA-Binding Proteins
CircRNAs serve as protein baits or antagonists, thus arrestting the function of proteins, thereby affecting the related progresses (184). For example: circLIFR synergizes with MSH2 to attenuate chemoresistance via MutSα/ATM-p73 axis in bladder cancer (114). In addition, the same circRNA can perform different functions in different cells or in the same cell through different pathways. For example, in hepatocellular carcinoma cells, circRNA-SORE can mediate hepatocellular carcinoma resistance to sorafenib by stabilizing YBX1 (67), while N-6-methyladenosine-modified circRNA-SORE can also maintain hepatocellular carcinoma resistance to sorafenib by regulating β-catenin signalin (69). It should be pointed out that the previously mentioned circRNA-SORE mediates the drug resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma to sorafenib by stabilizing the YBX1 protein; in fact, it does not involve gene copy number and activation, but rather, circRNA directly plays a role in the process of protein stability and degradation.YBX1 is a kind of RNA binding protein (RBP). At present, an increasing number of evidences suggest the direct binding of circRNAs to RBPs. Most of them continue to regulate the expression of downstream signaling pathways by affecting the stability or degradation of target proteins, and there is often more than one downstream pathway involved (30, 124). Although the RBP pathway is different from pathways influenced by circRNA regulation of the target gene, in essence, it continues to play its biological function by regulating the expression (by targeting genes) or degradation (by targeting proteins) of related proteins.It is worth mentioning that there are also reports that circRNA directly binds to the DNA promoter to regulate transcription and thus affect the progression of liver cancer (84, 187).
CircRNAs Encode Proteins
CircRNAs can translate to proteins through a cap-independent manner (184, 188). Yang et al. demonstrated that N-methyladensine(m6A) could promote the initiation of protein translation from circRNAs in human cells (189). For example, PengLi et al. found that circMRPS35 not only regulates the STX3-PTEN axis through sponge miR-148A, but also encodes circMRPS35-168aa, resulting in cisplatin resistance, thus playing a carcinogenic role in hepatocellular carcinoma (76). In addition, in gastric cancer, YuZhang et al. found that circDIDO1 inhibits the progression of gastric cancer by encoding a new DIDO1-529aa protein and regulating the stability of PRDX2 protein (190). At present, there are relatively few articles about circRNA affecting tumor chemotherapy resistance by encoding proteins, and in most of these articles, circRNA plays a role in multiple pathways, For example, even playing the role of molecular sponge also encodes protein, the emergence of this experimental result may be preconceived thinking about the mechanism of circRNA molecular sponge. Whether this preconceived way of thinking limits the study of circRNA multi-mechanism is worthy of further study (Figure 4).
Figure 4 Functions of circRNAs. (A) circRNAs competitively bind miRNAs, so as to serve as intracellular competitive endogenous RNA, suppressing the effects of miRNAs on target genes. (B) circRNAs can translate to proteins through a cap-independent manner. (C) circRNAs serve as protein baits or antagonists, thus arrestting the function of proteins, thereby affecting the related progresses. (D) circRNA function as a reservoir or a stabilizing factor for the miRNA.
Although this section outlines that circRNAs affect cancer drug resistance through the copy number alteration and activation of downstream genes, circRNA downstream genes are often proto-oncogenes or oncogenes, and the outcomes are mostly achieved by affecting the immune escape of cancer cells and the ability of cancer cells to repair genes or altering autophagy or EMT. For example, in studies of drug resistance in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), circFGFR1 also promotes NSCLC cell development and immune system escape by sponging miR-381-3p and targeting CXCR4, a gene that has been identified as a key oncogene in several cancers, and knockdown of CXCR4 reverses circFGFR1-induced NSCLC cell proliferation, migration and invasion (24). In addition, circFGFR1 is a sponge for several miRNAs. Additionally, in hepatocellular carcinoma cell resistance-related studies, circMET,can drive hepatocellular carcinoma immunosuppression and anti-PD-1 therapy resistance via the miR-30-5p/Snail/DPP4 axis. circMET also induces hepatocarcinogenesis and immune tolerance via the Snail/DPP4/CXCL10 axis (65).
The role of circRNAs in tumor drug resistance can be broadly classified into two categories according to their role, and in addition to the drug resistance enhancing effect mentioned above, there are also reports of drug resistance inhibiting effects. CircRNA can be negatively correlated with the generation of tumor drug resistance,For example, circ_0000079 induces the ribonucleic acid binding protein FXR1 to block the formation of the FXR1/PrCKI complex and reduces its promoting effects on NSCLC cell invasion and cisplatin resistance; it was shown that circ_0000079 (CiR79) levels were significantly downregulated in NSCLC patients, especially in cisplatin-resistant NSCLC patients, and that reduced circ_0000079 levels were significantly associated with overall survival in NSCLC patients. The results of Cell Counting Kit-8 and Transwell cell invasion assays showed that circ_0000079 overexpression significantly inhibited the proliferation and invasion of cisplatin-resistant NSCLC cells. Functionally and mechanistically, circ_0000079 negatively regulates the FXR1/PRKCI-mediated phosphorylation of glycogen synthase kinase 3β and activator protein 1, thereby decreasing the protein levels of the Snail gene, an important promoter gene that regulates cancer cell growth and EMT (30). This shows that circRNAs may be able to exert opposite effects on the biological behavior of tumor cells through different signaling pathways in different tumor cells.
CircRNAs Regulate Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, Autophagy and Phagocytosis
Both the activation and inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum stress have been shown to attenuate chemo- and radioresistance in tumors (191–193), and endoplasmic reticulum stress is also a potent trigger of autophagy for controlling cancer sensitivity (194). Autophagy is a process by which cells engulf their own cytoplasmic proteins or organelles and encapsulate them into vesicles that fuses with lysosomes to form autophagic lysosomes, which degrade the contents they encapsulate. However, autophagy is also a double-edged sword. Mild autophagy facilitates cell survival under normal or mild stress conditions, while excessive autophagy can lead to cell death. Smith et al. showed that the development of drug resistance may be attributed to autophagy-mediated oxidative stress and the role of key metabolites provided by autophagy in maintaining cell stemness during dormancy (195–198).
However, in contrast to other mechanisms of drug resistance generation, autophagy and phagocytosis tend to be positively correlated with the generation of drug resistance, i.e., enhanced autophagy generates drug resistance and inhibition of autophagy inhibits drug resistance, presumably related to the specificity of the function of autophagy itself. In cervical cancer, for example, autophagy-related genes are aberrantly regulated in cells overexpressing hsa_circ_0023404 (78). Nevertheless, in studies of drug resistance in cervical cancer, circMTO1 can regulate the expression of the S100A1 protein via miR-6893 and can likewise affect the expression of autophagy-related genes (77).
In laryngeal cancer, circPGAM1 can enhance autophagic signaling during drug resistance by regulating miR-376a, and autophagy can be induced and activated by autophagy-related genes in light chain 3 (LC3). Functionally, autophagy plays a dual role by promoting cell death and cancer cell survival (87).
In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), circPAN3 is involved in AML drug resistance by regulating autophagy. The study suggests that circPAN3 may promote AML drug resistance by regulating autophagy and affecting the expression of apoptosis-related proteins, while AMPK/mTOR signaling plays a key role in circPAN3 regulation of autophagy. Moreover, there is more than one miRNA strongly predicted to be associated downstream of circPAN3 in this example, and regulating autophagy via the AMPK/mTOR pathway may also be only one of these pathways; whether other more precise downstream pathways of circPAN3 exist to influence tumor drug resistance remains to be investigated (88). Similarly, in studies of AML drug resistance, circPAN3 was also found to mediate AML drug resistance via the miR-153-5p/miR-183-5p-XIAP axis (89). Therefore, by summarizing the studies of autophagy-related circRNAs inducing drug resistance, we found that drug resistance induced by the regulation of autophagy and phagocytosis is often not mediated by a single mechanism of action.
Some examples of inhibiting drug resistance by suppressing autophagy are as follows: in a study of drug resistance in gastric cancer, Sun et al. found that circRNA MCTP2 inhibited cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer through miR-99a-5p-mediated MTMR3 expression, and mechanistically, miR-99a-5p directly targeted MTMR3, a myotubulin-associated protein, to inhibit autophagy (152). mTMR3 is a member of the myotubulin family. It is an inositol-like 3-phosphatase that hydrolyzes PtdIns3P (PI3P) (199). PI3P (inositol-like 3-phosphate) is required for the autophagic process, and the inhibitory effect of MTMR3 on PI3P inhibits the formation of autophagic vesicles. In this study, the action of the circRNA MCTP2 molecular sponge led to the inhibition of autophagy through the MTMR3 protein, which then caused changes in related proteins that regulate autophagy, such as p62, related genes, such as BCL-2 and Beclin1. The process of Sun et al. provides ideas to study the regulation of autophagy, but it is unknown whether there is an inverse regulatory relationship between the regulatory proteins or genes and the functional units of autophagy (Figure 5).
Figure 5 CircRNA regulate autophagy-mediated chemoresistance.
CircRNAs Promotion or Inhibition of DNA Repair
The induction of DNA damage is another major effect of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, usually leading to cell death. However, DNA repair can reduce the sensitivity of cancer cells to treatment (4), so enhancing or suppressing DNA repair can affect the proportion of tumor cells killed by drugs and, in turn, affects drug resistance. For example, in gastric cancer, it has been shown that circ_0026359 is overexpressed and correlated with cisplatin resistance and poor survival in gastric cancer patients, and conversely, deletion of circ_0026359 enhances miR-1200 activity, which reduces the expression level of POLD4 and thus reduces the resistance of gastric cancer cells to cisplatin. In contrast, POLD4 plays a role in cell proliferation and the maintenance of human cell genome stability. Low expression of POLD4 has been reported to impair DNA repair systems, including nucleotide excision repair, and increase the risk of lung cancer formation (145). As an additional example, in triple-negative breast cancer, hsa_circ_0000199 may activate the DNA repair molecule histone family member X (H2AX), leading to cisplatin resistance. This also involves the classical PI3K/AKT pathway (151, 200).
CircRNA AKT3 upregulates PIK3R1 by inhibiting miR-198 to enhance cisplatin resistance (by inhibiting apoptosis and facilitating DNA damage repair) in gastric cancer. Mechanistically, circAKT3 activates the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in GC cells by sponging miR-198 to eliminate the inhibitory effect of this miRNA on its target gene PIK3R1. Activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway contributes to the upregulation of the DNA repair molecule BRCA1, leading to resistance to cisplatin-based chemotherapy.CircAKT3 affected the DNA damage response (DDR) in GC cells, suggested that circAKT3 may enhance cisplatin resistance through the PI3K/AKT pathway and DDdR mechanism in GC cells (151). In summary, to study the effect of DNA repair ability on tumor drug resistance, it is crucial to determine the connection between circRNA and DNA damage repair genes or proteins, which are commonly associated with DNA damage repair, such as POLD4, H2AX, BRCA1, etc. In addition, these genes or proteins are often linked to some classical signaling pathways, probably because repair involving DNA requires some well-established and stable genes and pathways.
CircRNAs Regulate Tumor Microenvironment (TME)
The TME is a complex ecosystem with microbiota, an acidic pH, inflammatory factors, matrix metalloproteinases, extracellular matrix (ECM), tumor-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). The impact of the tumor microenvironment on the tumor is frequent and must be considered, for example, because the TME of the primary tumor and the corresponding metastases differ, which affects the sensitivity of cancer cells (201, 202). It has been demonstrated that external factors such as inflammatory factors, acidity and alkalinity of the microenvironment in which the tumor is located regulate tumor drug resistance by influencing protein synthesis, organelle division, and enzyme function in tumor cells. The TME can both directly and indirectly affect the ability of circRNAs to regulate tumor drug resistance; for example, the inflammatory factor IL-7 can reduce the expression of ABCG2 (ATP-binding cassette family protein) and regulate cisplatin resistance in NSCLC (203). A hypoxic tumor microenvironment can cause excessive mitochondrial division of NK cells, which reduces the immune surveillance function of the organism (204). Direct regulation of circRNAs is also possible; for example, in a study on the previously mentioned circRNA CCDC66 in lung adenocarcinoma resistance, the expression of SAE2 was mainly regulated by EGFR, whereas the expression of circRNA CCDC66 was positively regulated by FAK and c-Met and negatively regulated by nAchR7α. The immediate response to hypoxia can increase phosphorylated c-Met and SAE2 expression and EMT (180). This regulates tumor drug resistance upstream from circRNA. It is thus clear that the TME and the role of circRNAs are closely related, and the effect of the TME on tumor drug resistance may bring new ideas and possibilities for the exploration of mechanisms for drug-resistant tumors in circRNA research.
CircRNAs in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Resistance
Chemotherapeutic drugs have no specific target, and their effects are all over the body, and they are extremely sensitive to cells that proliferate rapidly. It can inhibit and kill the rapidly proliferating tumor cells, but also inevitably “accidentally” injure the normal cells of human body, which is a simple and brutal anti-cancer method of “Injure the enemy by 1000 and lose 800 by yourself”. In contrast, there are sites on the surface of targeted drugs that can specifically bind to tumor cells, which can precisely identify the lesion site, and when cancer cells are identified by immune checkpoint inhibitors, they are destroyed. The effect on normal cells is minimal. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been shown to be highly efficient in the treatment of solid tumors, Therefore, ICIs treatment may be an important tool for tumor treatment in the future. However, limited benefit in terms of response and survival has been reported in many patients because of drug resistance. PD-L1 expression remains the only validated marker in clinics, molecular profiling has brought valuable information, showing that the tumor mutation load and microsatellite instability (MSI) status were associated to higher response rates in nearly all cancer types (205). The main immune checkpoint inhibitors currently in clinical use are anti-CTLA-4 and antibodies against PD-1 and its ligand PD-L1, which can be applied to many types of cancer and have shown significant improvements in patient survival time. However, despite the success of ICIs, resistance to these agents restricts the number of patients able to achieve durable responses, and immune-related adverse events complicate treatment. Due to tumor heterogeneity, current limited research shows that PD-1 or PD-L1 monoclonal antibody drug resistance may be related to the following factors: mutation of tumor antigen and antigen presentation process, multiple immune checkpoint interactions, immune microenvironment changes dynamically, activation of oncogenic pathways, gene mutation and epigenetic changes of key proteins in tumors, tumor competitive metabolism, and accumulation of metabolites, etc, mechanisms of resistance are complex. Therefore, it is the most urgent task to further elucidate the mechanism of immune checkpoint inhibitor resistance, discover multitumor universal biomarkers, and develop new target agents to improve the response rate of immunotherapy in patients (206). It has been shown that there is also a strong link between circRNAs and ICIs treatment resistance. Zhang et al. found circFGFR1 could directly interact with miR-381-3p and subsequently act as a miRNA sponge to upregulate the expression of the miR-381-3p target gene C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4), which promoted NSCLC progression and resistance to anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)- based therapy in non-small cell lung cancer cells (24). Interestingly, Hong et al. found that knock-down of circ-CPA4 inhibited intracellular and extracellular PD-L1 by targeting let-7 miRNA. On the one hand, PD-L1 self-regulated NSCLC cell growth, mobility, stemness and chemoresistance to cisplatin treatment. On the other, secreted PD-L1 inactivated CD8 T cells by activating extracellular and intracellular pathways mediated cell death to facilitate immune evasion (25). There are many more reports on circRNAs regulating resistance to ICIs, mainly against PD-1 and PD-L1 in breast cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma (65, 134). CircRNAs regarding anti-CTLA-4 resistance are rare by comparison, but there are reports of circRNAs targeting CTLA4 via ceRNA(competing endogenous RNAs) mechanisms to regulate tumor tumorigenesis (207, 208). Since ICIs treatment is closely related to T cell immunity and tumor microenvironment, and circRNA also plays an important role in this regard, I think the possible relationship of circRNA in future ICIs treatment cannot be ignored.
Conclusion and Perspective
Tumor resistance is now known to be facilitated by factors affecting increased drug efflux transporters or reduced influx channels, enhanced EMT and stem cellularity, alterations in target gene copy number and the activation of bypass pathways or downstream signaling, endoplasmic reticulum stress, the remodeling of autophagy and phagocytosis, enhanced or diminished DNA repair capacity, and alterations in the TME (Figure 6). This paper summarizes the links between the above mechanisms and circRNAs. From the beginning, circRNA was considered to be the “junk” in the cell, Research in recent years has discovered functions of circRNAs ranging from being microRNA (miRNA) sponges and transcription regulators to having protein in teractions and allowing for translation. The function and mechanism of action of circRNAs in tumors is becoming increasingly complex, especially after considering again the function of circ’s encoded proteins, the binding of a previously large number of circRNAs to downstream targets does not seem to be so pure. This also predetermines the diversity of circRNAs functions, in this case, the integration of the same circRNAs function is particularly important. In addition to the functional complexity, the function of the same circRNAs in different tumors or different environments is still worth thinking about whether the function of circRNAs will change with the cellular environment. Secondly, regarding the characterization of circRNAs distribution in cells, researchers habitually take the site where circRNAs saccumulates more (nucleus or cytoplasm) as the site where circRNAs exerts its function, and whether this is reasonable deserves further consideration. Because, we know that the content of circRNAs varies greatly in different tumors, the circRNAs enriched in a certain type of tumor, even if it is relatively less distributed, may still be quite higher after quantification than in other cells where it is more distributed. The role of circRNAs in tumor cells is also becoming increasingly important, and there exists a great potential to become a molecular marker and therapeutic target for tumors in the future. It is believed that, based on the complex mechanism of drug resistance, it is of no clinical significance to simply search for and regulate drug resistance targets, and it may even produce drug resistance again soon. It is speculated that according to the possible tumor characteristics, three types of treatment methods should be combined to change the tumor microenvironment ecology and eliminate various heterogeneous tumor subsets, so as to reduce tumor drug resistance and improve long-term clinical efficacy. Finally, standardizing the nomenclature of circRNAs in publications is imminent. The traditional way of naming circRNAs based on the parent gene has many drawbacks, because it is impossible to distinguish different circRNAs composed of different exons under the same parent gene, and even in many circRNAs related to tumor drug resistance articles do not provide the sequence or location of circRNAs, and the simple parent gene naming makes it impossible for me to target the exact circRNA. Of course, this problem is inevitable, because database inclusion and naming always follows the publication of the researcher’s results. I suggest that the first discovered circRNA can follow the nomenclature of the publisher, but subsequent articles need to specify the sequence and composition of the circRNA to distinguish if it is the same circRNA.
Figure 6 Overview of functional circRNAs in various types of cancer. The map shows the circRNAs that have been confirmed to function in various types of cancer. As the mechanism of drug resistance is complex, only the main mechanism is listed in this map. Among the number other mechanisms, specific mechanisms such as the regulation of metabolism, cell cycle, apoptosis, RNA binding proteins (RBPs), immune escape,etc, summed up as alterations in target gene copy number and the activation of bypass pathways or downstream signaling.
Author Contributions
SW, LQ, and TC collected the related reports and drafted the manuscript. XH, YX, and LX revised the manuscript. YJ, HH, QF, QL, YW, and JW participated in designing the review. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81902515), Excellent Youth Talent Support Program (Key) of Anhui Province (gxyqzd2020029), and Introducing Talents Natural Science Foundation of The First Affiliated Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical College (YR202006).
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Keywords: circRNA, tumor chemotherapy, drug resistance, therapeutic target, cancer biology
Citation: Wang S, Qian L, Cao T, Xu L, Jin Y, Hu H, Fu Q, Li Q, Wang Y, Wang J, Xia Y and Huang X (2022) Advances in the Study of CircRNAs in Tumor Drug Resistance. Front. Oncol. 12:868363. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.868363
Received: 02 February 2022; Accepted: 22 March 2022;
Published: 09 May 2022.
Edited by:
Mantang Qiu, Peking University People’s Hospital, ChinaReviewed by:
Eduardo López-Urrutia, National Autonomous University of Mexico, MexicoYutian Zou, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC), China
Lijuan Wang, Linyi People’s Hospital, China
Yongzhen Huang, Northwest A&F University, China
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