RT Journal Article T1 Low adherent cancer cell subpopulations are enriched in tumorigenic and metastatic epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition-induced cancer stem-like cells. A1 Morata-Tarifa, Cynthia A1 Jiménez, Gema A1 García, María A A1 Entrena, José M A1 Griñán-Lisón, Carmen A1 Aguilera, Margarita A1 Picon-Ruiz, Manuel A1 Marchal, Juan A K1 Animales K1 Índice de masa corporal K1 Mama K1 Neoplasias de la mama K1 Cadherinas K1 Claudinas K1 Neoplasias del colon K1 Transición epitelial-mesenquimal K1 Xenoinjertos K1 Ratones K1 Recurrencia local de neoplasia K1 Células madre neoplásicas K1 Fenotipo K1 Tripsina K1 Caracoles K1 Regulación hacia arriba K1 Vimentina AB Cancer stem cells are responsible for tumor progression, metastasis, therapy resistance and cancer recurrence, doing their identification and isolation of special relevance. Here we show that low adherent breast and colon cancer cells subpopulations have stem-like properties. Our results demonstrate that trypsin-sensitive (TS) breast and colon cancer cells subpopulations show increased ALDH activity, higher ability to exclude Hoechst 33342, enlarged proportion of cells with a cancer stem-like cell phenotype and are enriched in sphere- and colony-forming cells in vitro. Further studies in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells reveal that TS subpopulation expresses higher levels of SLUG, SNAIL, VIMENTIN and N-CADHERIN while show a lack of expression of E-CADHERIN and CLAUDIN, being this profile characteristic of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The TS subpopulation shows CXCL10, BMI-1 and OCT4 upregulation, differing also in the expression of several miRNAs involved in EMT and/or cell self-renewal such as miR-34a-5p, miR-34c-5p, miR-21-5p, miR-93-5p and miR-100-5p. Furthermore, in vivo studies in immunocompromised mice demonstrate that MDA-MB-231 TS cells form more and bigger xenograft tumors with shorter latency and have higher metastatic potential. In conclusion, this work presents a new, non-aggressive, easy, inexpensive and reproducible methodology to isolate prospectively cancer stem-like cells for subsequent biological and preclinical studies. PB Nature Publishing Group YR 2016 FD 2016-01-11 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2299 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2299 LA en NO Morata-Tarifa C, Jiménez G, García MA, Entrena JM, Griñán-Lisón C, Aguilera M, et al. Low adherent cancer cell subpopulations are enriched in tumorigenic and metastatic epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition-induced cancer stem-like cells. Sci Rep. 2016; 6:18772 NO Journal Article; DS RISalud RD Apr 6, 2025