RRC ID 65853
著者 Kumakura Y, Rokudai S, Iijima M, Altan B, Yoshida T, Bao H, Yokobori T, Sakai M, Sohda M, Miyazaki T, Nishiyama M, Kuwano H.
タイトル Elevated expression of ΔNp63 in advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
ジャーナル Cancer Sci
Abstract This study aims to explore the expression level of ΔNp63 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). To investigate the association between ΔNp63 (p40) expression and ESCC biology, we compared the levels of ΔNp63 expression in normal and tumor tissues, with a specific focus on the diagnostic value of ΔNp63 in ESCC. We analyzed 160 consecutive patients with ESCC who underwent surgical resection without neoadjuvant chemotherapy at Gunma University Hospital (Maebashi, Japan) between September 2000 and January 2010. The clinicopathological characteristics and survival of patients were subclassified based on the expression of ΔNp63 as determined by immunohistochemistry, indicating that ΔNp63 was highly expressed in 75.6% (121/160) of ESCC patients. Clinicopathological analysis of ΔNp63 expression showed that ΔNp63-positive tumors significantly correlated with two important clinical parameters: T factor (P = 0.0316) and venous invasion (P = 0.0195). The 5-year overall survival rates of advanced ESCC patients with positive and negative expression of ΔNp63 were 35.6% and 71.7%, respectively. Multivariate analysis revealed that the expression of ΔNp63 was identified as an independent prognostic factor (P = 0.0049) in advanced ESCC. In line with this, ΔNp63α-transduced ESCC cell lines increased tumor growth in a soft agar colony formation assay. We report here for the first time that ΔNp63 expression increases the oncogenic potential of ESCC and is an independent marker for predicting poor outcome in advanced ESCC. Our findings suggest that ΔNp63 could serve as a new diagnostic marker for ESCC and might be a relevant therapeutic target for the treatment of patients with this disease.
巻・号 108(11)
ページ 2149-2155
公開日 2017-11-1
DOI 10.1111/cas.13394
PMID 28892579
PMC PMC5666030
MeSH Aged Aged, 80 and over Biomarkers, Tumor / genetics* Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / genetics* Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology Cell Line, Tumor Disease-Free Survival Esophageal Neoplasms / genetics* Esophageal Neoplasms / pathology Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Female Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic Humans Male Middle Aged Neoplasm Staging Prognosis* Transcription Factors / genetics* Tumor Suppressor Proteins / genetics*
IF 4.966
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 TE-1(RCB1894) TE-8(RCB2098)