Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the effect and mechanism of ubiquitinspecific processing peptidase 10 (USP10) on gemcitabine resistance of pancreatic cancer.
Methods:(1) The 50% inhibiting concentration (IC
50) of USP10 in the PANC-1, BxPC-3 and SW1990 cell lines of pancreatic cancer was detected by CCK8 assay. (2) The expression of USP10 in the BxPC-3, PANC-1, SW1990 and SW1990GEM cell lines of pancreatic cancer was detected by Western blot. (3) Small interfering RNA (siRNA) of SW1900 cell lines was conducted, siRNA and USP10siRNA were transected and then were respectively allocated into the control group and USP10 group. (4) IC
50 of gemcitabine in the cancer cell lines between the 2 groups was detected by CCK8 assay. (5) Colonyforming unit assay: number of cloned cells was counted and colonyforming efficiency (CFE) was calculated. (6) Cells in the 2 groups were interfered with 0.3 μg/mL gemcitabine for 48 hours, and cell apoptosis was detected by flow cytometry and percentage of apoptosis was calculated. (7) Cells in the 2 groups were interfered with 0.3 μg/mL gemcitabine for 48 hours, and cell cycle was detected by flow cytometry. (8) The relative expressions of proteins in the 2 groups were detected by Western blot: ① the relative expressions of USP10 and P21 of cell lines interfered with 0, 0.30, 0.60, 1.20 μg/mL gemcitabine for 72 hours in the 2 groups were detected. ② The relative expressions of USP10 and P21 of cell lines interfered with 0.30 μg/mL gemcitabine at 0, 24, 48,72 hours in the 2 groups were detected. ③ The relative expression of P53 in SW1990 and SW1990GEM cell lines was detected. ④ The relative expression of P53 in SW1990 cell line interfered with 0, 0.30, 0.60, 1.20 μg/mL gemcitabine for 72 hours was detected. ⑤ The relative expression of P53 in SW1990 cell line interfered with 0.30 μg/mL gemcitabine at 0, 24, 48,72 hours was detected. (9) The interaction between the proteins was detected by coimmunoprecipitation. Measurement data was presented as

±s. The comparisons among groups were evaluated with the oneway ANOVA, and parirwise comparison was analyzed by the LSD test. Comparison between groups was analyzed by t test.
Results:(1) The IC
50 of gemcitabine and relative expression of USP10 in the cancer cell lines: ① the IC
50 of BxPC-3, PANC-1 and SW1990 cell lines interfered with gemcitabine for 72 hours which was detected using CCK8 assay was (0.070±0.040)μg, (0.120±0.010)μg and (0.350±0.050)μg, with a statistically significant difference among them (F=10.765, P<0.05), and with statistically significant differences between SW1990 cell line and BxPC-3 or PANC-1 cell lines and between BxPC-3 and PANC-1 cell lines (t=-7.122,-7.011, 3.510, P<0.05). ② The relative expression of USP10 in the BxPC-3, PANC-1 and SW1990 cell lines which was detected using Western blot were respectively 2.280±0.090, 1.930±0.030 and 0.950±0.010, with a statistically significant difference among them (F=12.120, P<0.05), and with statistically significant differences between SW1990 cell line and BxPC-3 or PANC-1 cell line and between BxPC-3 and PANC-1 cell lines (t=14.305, 20.455, 7.501, P<0.05). The relative expression of USP10 in SW1990 and SW1990GEM cell lines were 0.905±0.005 and 0.350±0.010, with a statistically significant difference (t=12.300, P<0.05). (2) The IC
50 of gemcitabine in the cancer cell lines which was detected by CCK8 assay was (0.410±0.040)μg in the control group and (0.950±0.070)μg in the USP10 group, showing a statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (t=54.792, P<0.05). (3) The result of colonyforming unit assay showed that number of cloned cells and CFE were 1200±84, 24%±3% in the control group and 2 300±105, 46%±5% in the USP10 group, showing statistically significant differences between the 2 groups (t=28.977, 10.200, P<0.05). (4) Percentage of cell apoptosis which was detected by flow cytometry was 21%±4% in the control group and 53%±3% in the USP10 group, showing a statistically significant difference (t=7.133, P<0.05). (5) The cell ratios of G0/G1 stage, S stage and G2/M stage which were detected by flow cytometry was 69%±5%, 21%±3%, 9%±4% in the control group and 46%±4%, 48%±3%, 11%±3% in the USP10 group, showing statistically significant differences between the 2 groups (t=9.392, 11.308, 7.152, P<0.05). (6) The relative expressions of resistancerelated proteins were detected by Western blot: ① the relative expressions of USP10 and P21 of cancer cell lines interfered with 0, 0.30, 0.60, 1.20 μg/mL gemcitabine for 72 hours were respectively 0.960±0.050-2.205±0.150 and 0.840±0.010-2.505±0.150 in the control group, 0.120±0.010-0.905±0.050 and 0.520±0.010-0.435±0.010 in the USP10 group, with significant concentrationdependence in the control group (F=10.108, 23.650, P<0.05) and with no concentrationdependence in the USP10 group (F=4.288, 16.807, P>0.05), and there was a statistically significant difference in the expression of P21 between the 2 groups (t=3.765, P<0.05). ② The relative expressions of USP10 and P21 of cancer cell lines interfered with 0.30 μg/mL gemcitabine at 0, 24, 48, 72 hours were respectively 0.840±0.050-2.120±0.050, 0.130±0.010-2.605±0.030 in the control group and 0.210±0.010-0.575±0.010, 0.120±0.010-0.330±0.010 in the USP10 group, with significant time dependence in the control group (F=9.754, 16.431, P<0.05) and with no time dependence in the USP10 group (F=8.390, 12.756, P>0.05). ③ The relative expressions of P53 in SW1990 and SW1990GEM cell lines were 2.650±0.050 and 1.450±0.060, respectively, showing a statistically significant difference (t=19.075, P<0.05). The relative expressions of P53 in the control and USP10 groups were 3.250±0.050 and 1.550±0.050, respectively, showing a statistically significant difference (t=9.240, P<0.05). ④ The relative expressions of P53 in SW1990 cell line interfered with 0, 0.30, 0.60, 1.20 μg/mL gemcitabine for 72 hours were 0.590±0.050, 1.015±0.050, 2.050±0.050 and 2.850±0.050, with a significant concentrationdependence (F=34.088, P<0.05). ⑤ The relative expressions of P53 in SW1990 cell line interfered with 0.30 μg/mL gemcitabine at 0, 24, 48, 72 hours were 0.890±0.050, 1.225±0.030, 2.180±0.150 and 3.030±0.150, with a significant time dependence (F=29.650, P<0.05). (7) The results of coimmunoprecipitation: there was expression of USP10 protein in P53 protein complexes and expression of P53 protein in USP10 protein complexes.
Conclusion:USP10 promotes primary and acquired resistance of gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer via activation of P53/P21 pathway.