Transcriptome of ovarian cancer cells overexpressing SYNCRIP or SNU13

We showed that in response to chemotherapy, dying cancer cells can secrete spliceosomal components into the extracellular space. These therapy-induced secretomes enriched with spliceosomal components promote the chemoresistance of recipient tumor cells. We demonstrated that spliceosomal proteins SNU13 and SYNCRIP can relocalize from dying tumor cells to recipient tumor cells via extracellular vesicles. To investigate whether the increased abundance of splicing factors could be the reason for the acquisition of a more aggressive phenotype by tumor cells, we got SKOV3 cell lines stably overexpressing SYNCRIP or SNU13. These cell lines were more resistant to cisplatin compared to control cell line expressing empty vector. Next, to investigate how the therapy response is formed in tumor cells with and without overexpression of spliceosomal proteins SNU13 or SYNCRIP, we performed RNAseq analysis of these cells before and 24 hours after cisplatin treatment. Enrichement analyses showed that in response to cisplatin, genes associated with DNA repair and cell cycle regulation were upregulated in cancer cell lines overexpressing SYNCRIP or SNU13 compared with control cells. This study revealed previously unknown signaling molecules in the microenvironment of ovarian cancer that have potential clinical significance.