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Putative cancer stem cells have been identified in glioblastoma (GBM), associated with resistance to conventional therapies. Overcoming this resistance is a major challenge to manage this deadly brain tumor. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is commonly amplified, over-expressed, and/or mutated in GBM, making it a compelling target for therapy. This study investigates the behavior of 3 primary neurosphere (NS) cell lines and their adherent counterparts originated from human GBM resections, when treated with EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib, associated or not with cyclopamine, a hedgehog pathway inhibitor. Adherent cells cultured in the presence of serum expressed the glial fibrillary acidic protein, whereas NS-forming cells cultured in serum-free medium expressed CD133, nestin, and Oct-4, markers of neural stem and progenitor cells. For the 3 adherent cell lines, erlotinib has a moderate effect (50% inhibitory concentration [IC50], &gt;10 µM). Conversely, erlotinib induced a strong cell growth inhibition (IC50, &lt;1 µM) on NS-forming cells, related to the EGFR gene amplification and EGFR protein expression. A short exposure to erlotinib reduced nestin-positive cell proliferation, but NS-initiating activity and self-renewal were not altered. EGFR pathway seems essential for GBM progenitor cell proliferation but dispensable for cancer stem-like cell self-renewal. Inhibition of hedgehog pathway with cyclopamine was evaluated in association with erlotinib on NS growth. Although each drug separately had no effect on sphere initiation, their combination significantly decreased the sphere number (P &lt; .001). Our findings show synergic efficiency for erlotinib-cyclopamine association and provide a suitable in vitro model to explore drug combinations on GBM cells.

Cyclopamine cooperates with EGFR inhibition to deplete stem-like cancer cells in glioblastoma-derived spheroid cultures