Leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 marks different cancer stem cell compartments in human Caco-2 and LoVo colon cancer lines
Samah Abdulaali Alharbi, Physiology Department, College of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 24231, Saudi Arabia
Samah Abdulaali Alharbi, Ernst Wolvetang, Department of Stem Cell Engineering Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia
Dmitry A Ovchinnikov, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia
Author contributions: Alharbi SA contributed investigation, methodology, formal analysis, visualization, preparation and original draft preparation; Ovchinnikov DA contributed conceptualization, methodology and supervision; Wolvetang E contributed conceptualization, supervision, funding, acquisition, project administration and resources and reviewed and edited the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at The University of Queensland (approval No. 2019000159).
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: All animal experiments conformed to the internationally accepted principles for the care and use of laboratory animals, The Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Brisbane; Australia (approval No. AIBN/065/12/SCA/LEJEUNE/KACST).
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors have nothing to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
ARRIVE guidelines statement: The authors have read the ARRIVE Guidelines, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the ARRIVE Guidelines.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Samah Abdulaali Alharbi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Senior Scientist, Physiology Department, College of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Prince Sultan bin AbdulAziz road, Makkah 24231, Saudi Arabia. saaharbi@uqu.edu.sa
Received: December 1, 2020
Peer-review started: December 1, 2020
First decision: December 21, 2020
Revised: January 22, 2021
Accepted: February 24, 2021
Article in press: February 24, 2021
Published online: April 21, 2021
