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Ergolide Mediates Anti-cancer Effects on Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Cells and Modulates Their Cellular and Extracellular Vesicle Proteomes

Abstract

Background: Uveal melanoma is a poor prognosis cancer. Ergolide, a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from , exerts anti-cancer properties. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether ergolide reduced metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM) cell survival/viability and ; and to understand the molecular mechanism of ergolide action.

Methods: Ergolide bioactivity was screened via long-term proliferation assay in UM/MUM cells and in zebrafish MUM xenograft models. Mass spectrometry profiled proteins modulated by ergolide within whole cell or extracellular vesicle (EVs) lysates of the OMM2.5 MUM cell line. Protein expression was analyzed by immunoblots and correlation analyses to UM patient survival used The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data.

Results: Ergolide treatment resulted in significant, dose-dependent reductions (48.5 to 99.9%; <0.0001) in OMM2.5 cell survival and of normalized primary zebrafish xenograft fluorescence (56%; <0.0001) , compared to vehicle controls. Proteome-profiling of ergolide-treated OMM2.5 cells, identified 5023 proteins, with 52 and 55 proteins significantly altered at 4 and 24 hours, respectively ( <0.05; fold-change >1.2). Immunoblotting of heme oxygenase 1 (HMOX1) and growth/differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) corroborated the proteomic data. Additional proteomics of EVs isolated from OMM2.5 cells treated with ergolide, detected 2931 proteins. There was a large overlap with EV proteins annotated within the Vesiclepedia compendium. Within the differentially expressed proteins, the proteasomal pathway was primarily altered. Interestingly, BRCA2 and CDKN1A Interacting Protein (BCCIP) and Chitinase Domain Containing 1 (CHID1), were the only proteins significantly differentially expressed by ergolide in both the OMM2.5 cellular and EV isolates and they displayed inverse differential expression in the cells versus the EVs.

Conclusions: Ergolide is a novel, promising anti-proliferative agent for UM/MUM. Proteomic profiling of OMM2.5 cellular/EV lysates identified candidate pathways elucidating the action of ergolide and putative biomarkers of UM, that require further examination.

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