Corrigendum: Anticancer effects of ABTL0812, a clinical stage drug inducer of autophagy-mediated cancer cell death, in glioblastoma models

Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.943064.].

Keywords: ABTL0812; Akt; ER stress; TRIB3; UPR; autophagy; glioblastoma; mTOR.

Figure 2

ABTL0812 induces glioblastoma and GSCs differentiation and reverts proneural to mesenchymal transition. (A) Representative FACS expression profiles of mesenchymal (CD44, Stro1 and CD90), stemness (CXCR4), neural (βIII tubulin, NFH and GAP43) and proliferation (Ki67) markers and table and histograms showing the percentage of cells expressing the markers analyzed by FACS in glioblastoma cells U87MG treated with ABTL0812 for 48 hours (B) and in glioblastoma stem cells GSCs-5 treated for 48 hours with ABTL0812 (C) Representative confocal images of BT12M cells stained with Sox2, βIII tubulin and Ki67. Cell nuclei were stained with DAPI. (D) Representative images from Boyden chamber assays showing invasive U87MG cells after a 6-hour assay that were pretreated with ABTL0812 for 48 hours (E) Quantification of invasive cells from a matrigel invasion assays performed in U87MG, U251 and A172 cells treated with ABTL0812. CTRL, control vehicle-treated cells. * p<0.01 vs vehicle basal.

Figure 6

ABTL0812 impairs tumor growth in glioblastoma subcutaneous xenograft models. U87MG and T98G cells were injected subcutaneously in athymic female cd1 nu/nu mice (N=10 each group). Mice were treated daily with vehicle or ABTL0812 at 120 or 240 mg/Kg by oral administration. The mTORC inhibitor everolimus (ve) was used as a comparator for antitumor activity and was administered orally at a dose of 5 mg/kg/2 days per week (A, B) Weight of U87MG and T98G cells-derived xenograft tumors removed from nude mice. (C, D) Representative immunohistochemistry images from U87MG (C) and T98G (D) xenograft tumors stained with Akt-mTORC axis markers (TRIB3, p-Akt Ser473 and p-Akt Thr308); the cell proliferation marker Ki67; the endothelial cell marker CD34; the apoptosis marker caspase3; the hypoxia marker HIF-1α; and TUNEL staining to measure apoptosis (Magnification 400X). Statistical significance levels: *p<0.05, **p<0.01 and n =10. CTRL, control vehicle-treated cells.