Abstract
Receptor-interacting protein 1 (RIP1, also known as RIPK1) is not only a tumor-promoting factor in several cancers but also mediates either apoptosis or necroptosis in certain circumstances. In this study we investigated what role RIP1 plays in human ovarian cancer cells. We showed that knockout (KO) of RIP1 substantially suppressed cell proliferation, accompanied by the G2/M checkpoint arrest in two human ovarian cancer cell lines SKOV3 and A2780. On the other hand, RIP1 KO remarkably attenuated cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity, which was associated with reduction of the apoptosis markers PARP cleavage and the necroptosis marker phospho-MLKL. We found that RIP1 KO suppressed cisplatin-induced ROS accumulation in both SKOV3 and A2780 cells. ROS scavenger BHA, apoptosis inhibitor Z-VAD or necroptosis inhibitor NSA could effectively suppress cisplatin’s cytotoxicity in the control cells, suggesting that ROS-mediated apoptosis and necroptosis were involved in cisplatin-induced cell death. In addition, blocking necroptosis with MLKL siRNA effectively attenuated cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity. In human ovarian cancer A2780 cell line xenograft nude mice, RIP1 KO not only significantly suppressed the tumor growth but also greatly attenuated cisplatin’s anticancer activity. Our results demonstrate a dual role of RIP1 in human ovarian cancer: it acts as either a tumor-promoting factor to promote cancer cell proliferation or a tumor-suppressing factor to facilitate anticancer effects of chemotherapeutics such as cisplatin.
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Introduction
Ovarian cancer is one of the main life-threatening malignancies in women worldwide. Due to its high heterogeneity and complex cell origin, the complex pathogenesis of ovarian cancer is not well elucidated [1, 2]. It is not surprising that multiple risk factors are associated with different subtypes of ovarian cancer [3]. Thus, it is important to identify factors contributing to ovarian carcinogenesis. In addition, innate and acquired resistance to commonly used chemotherapy drugs are frequently seen in ovarian cancer, which renders the worst prognosis of ovarian cancer in all gynecological malignancies [1, 2]. Thus, the identification of factors involved in this regulation and biomarkers predicting chemotherapeutic response holds important keys for improving chemotherapy efficacy to reduce ovarian cancer mortality.
Receptor-interacting protein 1 (RIP1, also known as receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1, RIPK1) was initially identified as an adaptor protein for the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor 1 (TNFR1) family of receptors involved in nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activation. As NF-κB is usually anti-apoptotic, RIP1 was believed to be a mediator of cell survival. Later studies strengthened this hypothesis, as RIP1 was determined to mediate signaling pathways involved in cell survival, including the mitogen-activated protein kinases, and Akt and NF-κB, which can be activated by a variety of extracellular and intracellular stimulations and stresses [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. As a hallmark of cancer cells, hyperactive cell survival pathways can be targeted for cancer chemotherapy [14]. For example, Hsp90 inhibitor-mediated destruction of RIP1 protein potently blocked NF-κB and potentiated TNF- or TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-induced cancer cell death in lung cancer [15,16,17]. However, a pro-death role for RIP1 has also been identified: RIP1 mediates either apoptosis or necroptosis in certain circumstances [18,19,20,21]. Thus, RIP1 relays signals activated by diverse stimuli to different pathways for either cell survival or death, depending on the cellular context and types of stimulation [4, 6, 11, 22].
Recent studies have identified RIP1 as a target in therapy of human diseases, including cancer [23, 24]. RIP1 overexpression was found in glioblastoma and lung cancer, where it was suggested to be an endogenous tumor-promoting factor for these malignancies [25,26,27]. In lung cancer, RIP1 plays a role in counteracting the anticancer effects of chemotherapeutics, including cisplatin [28,29,30]. However, the role of RIP1 in carcinogenesis and chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer has not been studied. In this report, we provide evidence, suggesting that RIP1 plays complex roles in ovarian cancer: it promotes tumor growth through increasing proliferation and counteracting the anticancer effects of chemotherapeutics such as cisplatin through mediating apoptosis and necroptosis.
Materials and methods
Reagents
Anti-RIP1, anti-active caspase 3 and anti-poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) antibodies were purchased from BD Bioscience (San Diego, CA). Anti-MLKL and -p-MLKL antibodies were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO). Anti-β-actin and anti-rabbit (mouse) IgG-Hrp were purchased from Protein Tech (Chicago, IL). Anti-Ki-67 was purchased from Wuhan Boster Biological Technology, Ltd (Wuhan, Hubei, China). N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and butylated hydroxyanisol (BHA) were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO). Z-VAD-FMK was obtained from Calbiochem (La Jolla, CA). Necrostatin-1 (Nec-1) and Necrosulfonamide (NSA) were from Abcam (Cambridge, MA). Cisplatin (cDDP) was purchased from Jiangsu Hansoh Pharma Co., Ltd (Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China). Puromycin was purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO). Taxol was purchased from Shanghai Haoranbio Co., Ltd (Shanghai, China).
Construction of a RIP1 knockout plasmid
A knockout (KO) plasmid targeting the human RIP1 gene was constructed using the px459 Crisper/Cas9 system (gift from Professor Qintong Li, Sichuan University) and the sequences of the inserts were as follows: h-RIP1 guide-F: 5′-CACCG AGTGCAGAACTGGACAGCGG-3′; h-RIP1 guide-R: 5′-AAAC CCGCTGTCCA GTTCTGCACTC-3′. The resulting construct, px459 RIP1 KO, was confirmed by DNA sequencing.
Cell culture and transfection
Ovarian cancer cell lines SKOV3 and A2780 from ATCC were cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen) containing 400 mM L-glutamine and 4500 mg/L glucose mL penicillin,/mL penicillin, 100 U/mL streptomycin, and 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco) in a CO2 incubator at 37 °C. For stable transfection, the cells were seeded into 12-well cell culture plates and transfected with recombinant px459 RIP1 KO or negative control (NC) plasmids according to the instructions of a Lipofectamine 3000 Transfection Kit, and stably transfected clones were selected with puromycin (4 μg/mL). The clones were validated by PCR with the primers F: 5′-GTCTTGCCCTGAGGTTTTCT-3′ and R: 5′-CATCCCGCTCAGAACTTAGC-3′, and were further confirmed by DNA sequencing and Western blotting analysis with the RIP1 antibody.
Cell proliferation assays
Cells were seeded in 96-well cell culture plates and were cultured for 12 h in complete DMEM containing 10% FBS. The medium was replaced with FBS-free DMEM and cells were maintained for 24 h to synchronize in the G1 phase. To initiate cell proliferation, the FBS-free medium was replaced with complete medium. After culturing for 24, 48, 72, and 96 h, the reaction mixture from a WST-8 Kit was added to the culture and incubated for up to 1 h. The absorbance of the different medium mixtures was measured at 450 nm using a plate reader. All experiments were repeated three times and the average is shown in each figure. To examine the cell cycle distribution, the cells were cultured as in the WST-8 assay. After synchronization, the cells in the 0 h group were collected by trypsin digestion and the remaining cells were cultured in 10% FBS medium for 48 h before collection. All of the cells were treated with 75% glacial ethanol at 4 °C for 30 min and then they were resuspended in 20 µM Draq5 from a DRAQ5 colorant Kit (KeyGEN, China), and were incubated for 30 min in the dark. The cell cycle was measured by flow cytometry. All experiments were repeated three times and the average is shown in each figure.
Cytotoxicity assays
The cells were seeded in 96-well plates at 70–80% confluence 1 day before treatment and were treated as indicated in each figure legend. Cell death was measured based on the release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) using a cytotoxicity detection kit (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). Culture medium was collected from each well and transferred into a clean 96-well plate. The media were incubated with the reaction mixture for 30 min and the absorbance was measured at 490 nm with a plate reader. Cytotoxicity was calculated as described previously [17]. All experiments were repeated three times and the average is shown in each figure.
Detection of reactive oxygen species (ROS)
The cells cultured in 12-well plates were treated with cisplatin as shown in the figure legends. Then, 5-(and-6)-chloromethyl-2′, 7′-dichlorodihydro fluorescein diacetate, acetyl ester (CM-H2DCFDA, 5 µM) was added to the cell culture 30 min before cells were collected and ROS was detected by flow cytometry with a BD FACSCelesta flow cytometer (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA).
Western blotting analysis
Cells were collected by trypsin digestion and cell lysates were prepared by putting cells in RIPA buffer supplemented with the protease inhibitor phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride. Total protein concentration was measured with a BCA protein assay kit (Thermo, USA). Equal protein amounts of the samples were resolved on SDS-polyacrylamide gels by electrophoresis and transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes with a Trans-Blot® Turbo™ Transfer System (Bio-Rad). The membranes were blocked with a blocking buffer containing 5% bovine serum albumin before incubating with primary antibodies overnight. The membranes were then incubated with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies for 1 h and the proteins of interest were visualized by enhanced chemiluminescence (Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA). The intensity of each band was quantified by ImageJ software.
Apoptosis assays
Apoptosis was detected by using a PE Annexin V Apoptosis Detection Kit with 7-AAD (Biolegend, USA). The cells were seeded in six-well plates and cultured in DMEM containing 10% FBS overnight, treated with cisplatin as indicated in figure legends, and then collected by EDTA-free trypsin digestion. The cells were double stained with PE Annexin V and 7-AAD, and apoptosis was measured and analyzed by flow cytometry (BD Bioscience, Franklin Lakes, NJ). Early apoptosis was defined by PE Annexin V/7-AAD staining (Q4) and late apoptosis was defined by PE Annexin V/7-AAD staining (Q2). All experiments were repeated three times and a representive set is shown in each Fig. 4.
RNA interference
To knock down MLKL expression, cells were transfected with an MLKL small interfering RNA (siRNA) with the Lipofectamine 3000 Transfection Kit using siRNA transfection reagent. A negative control siRNA was transfected as an NC. The knockdown efficacy was determined by Western blotting. To evaluate the effect of MLKL knockdown on cisplatin sensitivity, siRNA-transfected cells were treated with cisplatin for another 72 h and cell death was measured with an LDH release assay. The siRNA targeting sequences were as follows: MLKL-1: 5′-GAAGCAUAUUAUCACCCUUTT-3′, MLKL-2: sense: 5′-GCAAUAGAUCCAAUAUCUGTT-3′, and NC: 5′-UUC UCC GAA CGU GUC ACG UTT-3′.
Xenograft tumor growth and therapy assays
All of the procedures involving animal use and care were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Sichuan University. Balb/c Nude mice (5–6 weeks old, female) were purchased from a corporation for experimental animals (Gempharmatech. Co., Ltd, Jiangsu, China). Cells (6 × 106 cells) were injected subcutaneously into the flanks of the mice. After palpable tumors had developed, the animals in each group were randomly divided into two subgroups for treatment with either phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (control) or cisplatin (4.5 mg/kg body weight, intraperitoneally, twice a week). The body weight and tumor size were measured twice a week. Tumor volume was calculated using the following formula: tumor volume = (length × width2)/2. At the end of the experiment, the animals were killed and excised tumors were measured and weighed. The antitumor effect for each group was expressed as the tumor inhibition rate: [(mean tumor weight of PBS group − tumor weights of the cisplatin-treated group)/mean tumor weight of PBS group] × 100%.
Immunohistochemistry
Paraffin-embedded sections of tumor tissues were treated with 3% H2O2 for 10 min at room temperature after conventional dewaxing to inactivate endogenous peroxidase. Goat serum was used to block samples for 20 min at room temperature after antigen retrieval with 0.01 M sodium citrate buffer (pH 6.0). The sections were incubated with primary antibodies (RIP1 and Ki-67 concentrations were both 1:100) overnight at 4 °C and then they were incubated with the biotin-coupled secondary antibody (GTVisionTM III Detection System/Mo&Rb, Shanghai Gene Technology Co., Ltd) for 30 min at 37 °C. Hematoxylin was used to counterstain the slides. The images were observed under a microscope.
Detection of apoptosis and necroptosis in tumors
Apoptosis in tumor tissues was detected by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) assays with an In Situ Cell Death Detection Kit (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Briefly, paraffin-embedded tissue sections were deparaffinized, treated with 0.01 M Tris/HCl protease K (20 μg/mL at 37 °C) for 15 min, and then incubated with the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase labeling reaction mixture for 60 min at 37 °C. The primary antibody (anti-Caspase-3, 1:100) was incubated with the cells overnight at 4 °C and the fluorescently labeled secondary antibody was incubated with the cells for 1 h at room temperature after washing with PBS. The nuclei were stained with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and the pictures were taken by confocal microscopy. As apoptotic cells involve caspase activation and DNA damage while necroptosis results in caspase-independent DNA damage [31,32,33], cells positive for both TUNEL and active Caspase 3 were regarded as apoptotic and those only positive for TUNEL staining were regarded as necroptotic.
Statistical analysis
Statistical significance was examined by Student’s paired-samples T-test by using SPSS statistics software. P < 0.05 was used to identify significance.
Results
RIP1 knockout suppresses proliferation in ovarian cancer cells
To investigate the role of RIP1 in ovarian cancer, we established stable RIP1 expression KO with CRISPR/Cas9 in two human ovarian cancer cell lines SKOV3 and A2780. Individual RIP1 KO clones were validated by Western blotting (Fig. 1a, b). Compared with negative control (NC)-transfected control cells, the proliferation of the RIP1 KO clones was substantially reduced (Fig. 1c, d), suggesting that RIP1 is required for proliferation of ovarian cells. To investigate the underlying mechanism of this effect of RIP1, the cell cycle distribution of the KO cells was examined by staining with DRAQ5 and subjecting them to flow cytometry analysis. The RIP1 KO clones consistently had much higher distribution rates in the G2/M phase than in the NC cells (Fig. 1e), suggesting that knocking out RIP1 resulted in cell cycle arrest at the G2/M checkpoint. These results suggest that RIP1 potentiates ovarian cancer cell proliferation by promoting the G2/M transition in the cell proliferation cycle.
RIP1 KO attenuates cytotoxicity induced by cisplatin and Taxol in ovarian cells
Correlated to the pivotal role of RIP1 in cell survival signaling, RIP1 ablation sensitized lung cancer cells to chemotherapeutics [28,29,30]. Thus, we examined whether RIP1 plays a similar role in ovarian cancer. Surprisingly, RIP1 KO strongly suppressed cisplatin-induced cell death in both SKOV3 and A2780 cells (Fig. 2a, b). A similar effect was observed when the cells were treated with Taxol (Fig. 2c, d). Consistently, there was a significant increase in cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity in the RIP1 overexpression cells (Supplementary Fig. S1). These unexpected results strongly suggest that RIP1 is required for the chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer, which is different from what is observed in other cancers [25,26,27].
RIP1 KO suppresses cisplatin-induced ROS accumulation
Previous reports showed that RIP1 attenuates the chemotherapeutic response of lung cancer cells through mitigating cellular ROS accumulation [28, 30]. Thus, we examined whether RIP1 KO influences ROS induction by cisplatin. As expected, cisplatin treatment caused cellular ROS accumulation in the NC cells (Fig. 3a). However, although the basal ROS level was not changed, the cisplatin-induced ROS was almost completely suppressed by RIP1 KO in both SKOV3 and A2780 cells (Fig. 3a). Consistently, RIP1 overexpression slightly promoted cisplatin-induced ROS levels (Supplementary Fig. S1e). The role of ROS in cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity was confirmed with ROS scavengers BHA and NAC, which effectively suppressed cisplatin’s cytotoxicity in the NC cells due to the effective removal of cellular ROS (Fig. 3b-e). These results suggest that RIP1 in ovarian cancer cells plays an opposite role in ROS regulation to the role it plays in lung cancer, where RIP1 suppresses cisplatin-induced ROS [28, 30], which explains the opposite roles of RIP1 in cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity in different cancers.
RIP1 mediates cisplatin-induced apoptosis
It is well known that cisplatin induces apoptotic cell death in various cancer cells, and that excess cellular ROS can lead to apoptosis. Therefore, we examined whether RIP1 mediates cisplatin-induced apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells. Indeed, cisplatin-induced caspase 3 activation and PARP cleavage, hallmarks of apoptosis activation, were effectively suppressed in RIP KO cells (Fig. 4a). Notably, cisplatin suppressed RIP1 expression at 24 and 48 h, late time points when signaling to apoptosis was completed, which is consistent with the fact that RIP1 can be cleaved or degraded to terminate its signaling [4, 34]. In addition, the pan caspase inhibitor Z-VAD and RIP1 kinase inhibitor necrostatin-1 effectively suppressed cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity (Fig. 4b, c). Furthermore, suppressed cisplatin-induced apoptosis in RIP1 KO cells was confirmed by annexin V staining (Fig. 4d).
RIP1 contributes to cisplatin-induced necroptosis
The combination of Z-VAD and necrostatin-1 additively suppressed cisplatin-induced cell death (Fig. 4b, c), suggesting that a mechanism in addition to apoptosis was mediated by RIP1 for cisplatin’s cytotoxicity. As RIP1 is able to mediate necroptosis in certain circumstances, we then examined whether mediation of necroptosis by RIP1 is also involved in cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity in ovarian cancer cells. Similar to Z-VAD, the necroptosis inhibitor NSA also effectively suppressed cisplatin-induced cell death in both SKOV3 and A2780 cells, and the combination of Z-VAD and NSA resulted in further suppression of cytotoxicity (Fig. 5a, b). Then, the phosphorylation of MLKL, a hallmark of necroptosis activation, was examined by Western blotting. A strong phosphorylation of MLKL was detected in the NC cells but not in the RIP1 KO cells at 24 h post cisplatin exposure (Fig. 5c), which was correlated with the timing of necroptosis activation. When MLKL was knocked down (Fig. 5d), cisplatin-induced cell death was reduced (Fig. 5e), confirming that cisplatin is able to induce necroptosis in ovarian cancer cells. Altogether, these results suggest that RIP1 mediates cisplatin-induced necroptosis in ovarian cancer cells.
RIP1 KO attenuates tumor growth in nude mice
A mouse xenograft tumor model was used to examine the role of RIP1 in ovarian cancer growth in vivo. The NC and RIP1 KO cells were injected subcutaneously into nude mice to allow the development of xenograft tumors and subsequent tumor growth was measured. The tumors derived from RIP1 KO cells grew significantly slower and were smaller than those from the NC cells (Fig. 6a, c-e), which is consistent with the attenuated proliferation in RIP1 KO cells seen in vitro (Fig. 1c–e). Supportive of the role of RIP1 in tumor growth, the cell proliferation marker Ki-67 was significantly reduced in the tumors derived from RIP1 KO cells compared with what was seen in tumors derived from the NC cells (Fig. 6f).
RIP1 KO attenuates cisplatin’s anticancer activity in nude mice
The role of RIP1 in response to the antitumor effect of cisplatin was examined in a xenograft tumor therapy model. As expected, cisplatin therapy strongly suppressed tumors derived from NC cells. In contrast, the tumor-suppressing effect of cisplatin in tumors derived from RIP1 KO cells was subtle (Fig. 6a, c, d). These results confirmed the role of RIP1 in potentiating tumor growth and mediating cisplatin’s anticancer activity in vivo. In addition, cisplatin therapy induced both apoptosis (as indicated from positive staining for both TUNEL and active Caspase 3) and necroptosis (cells positive for TUNEL only) (Fig. 7). Importantly, RIP1 KO significantly reduced the number of both cisplatin-induced apoptotic and necrotic cells (Fig. 7a, b), suggesting that RIP1 mediated both apoptosis and necroptosis for cisplatin’s anticancer activity in vivo.
Discussion
In this report, we provide data suggesting that RIP1 plays a dual role in ovarian cancer: as a tumor-promoting factor to maintain cancer cell proliferation and as a tumor-suppressing factor to facilitate the anticancer activity of chemotherapeutics such as cisplatin. The results show that RIP1 KO substantially suppressed cell proliferation through arrest at the G2/M checkpoint. RIP1 KO remarkably attenuated cisplatin-induced cytotoxicity, which was associated with suppression of apoptosis and necroptosis. The cellular role of RIP1 in regulating cisplatin-induced cell death is likely due to the mediation of ROS production. Thus, our results highlight the complex properties of RIP1 in ovarian cancer, and RIP1 expression may be used as a biomarker for predicting platinum-based chemotherapy response.
As a cell survival factor, RIP1 contributes to cell proliferation [4]. The mediation of signals related to survival, such as NF-κB and Akt, is generally assumed to be the mechanism by which RIP1 contributes to cell survival and proliferation [35, 36]. RIP1 also maintains mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and a proper level of glycolysis to support cell proliferation in lung cancer cells [37]. Thus, the role of RIP1 in cancer cell proliferation appears to be complex. In this report, we found that RIP1 KO clearly suppressed proliferation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. The proliferation suppression was due to cell cycle arrest at the G2/M checkpoint. However, the defined mechanism underlying this function of RIP1 needs future study.
RIP1 was initially found to mediate TNFα-induced ROS accumulation and necroptosis in mouse embryonic fibroblast cells [20]. However, later studies found that RIP1 suppresses and does not promote ROS in lung cancer cells exposed to chemotherapeutic drugs such as cisplatin and adriamycin. By suppressing ROS accumulation, RIP1 attenuates anticancer activity in lung cancer cells [28,29,30]. In this report, we found that RIP1 is required for cisplatin-induced and ROS-mediated cytotoxicity, which is clearly different from the results from lung cancer cells. Thus, it is likely that the role of RIP1 in the regulation of ROS and chemotherapy response is cell type- or context-specific. Indeed, RIP1-dependent ROS production was reported to contribute to artesunate-induced cell death in renal carcinoma cells [38]. How RIP1 mediates contradictory cellular signaling in different cells is still elusive. RIP1 modifications, such as phosphorylation, ubiquitination and cleavage, may be involved [34, 39]. Future studies on the expression and function of RIP1-modulating factors in cancers in which RIP1 exerts distinct functions may uncover some pieces of the puzzle.
As a cytotoxic anticancer therapeutic agent, it is well known that cisplatin induces apoptosis. We found that cisplatin’s cytotoxicity is partially apoptotic, as it was shown to activate caspases and could be partly suppressed by the apoptosis inhibitor z-VAD. The apoptotic effect was effectively suppressed by RIP1 KO or the RIP1 kinase inhibitor Nec-1, suggesting that RIP1 mediates cisplatin-induced apoptosis. This is consistent with the idea that under certain circumstances, RIP1 mediates apoptosis depending on its kinase activity [18].
Necroptosis was initially defined as death receptor-initiated and RIP1/RIP3-mediated nonapoptotic cell death [40, 41]. The formation of the necrosome signaling complex is key for mediating necrotic cell death mediated by death receptors [42, 43]. Later, intrinsic stress-induced necroptosis was discovered, and pharmacological agents induced necroptosis through necrosome formation [42, 44]. Recent studies suggest that cisplatin can also trigger necroptosis in mouse fibroblast L929 cells [45]. In this study, we determined that cisplatin is able to induce necroptosis, which can be blocked by either the necroptosis inhibitor NSA or the knockdown of MLKL. Thus, cisplatin cytotoxicity in ovarian cells involves both apoptosis and necroptosis, and in which RIP1 plays a pivotal role.
In summary, our results suggest that RIP1 promotes ovarian cancer cell proliferation through G2/M checkpoint progression and facilitates anticancer effects of chemotherapeutics such as cisplatin and Taxol. Further studies are warranted with animal models to determine if RIP1 is involved in ovarian carcinogenesis and with clinical studies to determine if RIP1 expression could be a biomarker for predicting responses to chemotherapy.
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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Numbers 81172494 and 81670346), the R&D Program for International S&T Cooperation and the Exchanges of Sichuan province (Number 2018HH0014), and NCI/NIH (1R21CA193633).
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Zheng, Xl., Yang, Jj., Wang, Yy. et al. RIP1 promotes proliferation through G2/M checkpoint progression and mediates cisplatin-induced apoptosis and necroptosis in human ovarian cancer cells. Acta Pharmacol Sin 41, 1223–1233 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41401-019-0340-7
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