Role of hMLH1 and E-cadherin promoter methylation in gastric cancer progression.

Autor: Moghbeli M; Division of Human Genetics, Immunology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Mashhad, Iran., Moaven O, Memar B, Raziei HR, Aarabi A, Dadkhah E, Forghanifard MM, Manzari F, Abbaszadegan MR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of gastrointestinal cancer [J Gastrointest Cancer] 2014 Mar; Vol. 45 (1), pp. 40-7.
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-013-9548-9
Abstrakt: Introduction: Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in Iran. Genome stability is one of the main genetic issues in cancer biology which is governed via the different repair systems such as DNA mismatch repair (MMR). A clear correlation between MMR defects and tumor progression has been shown. Beside the genetic mutations, epigenetic changes also have a noticeable role in MMR defects.
Methods: Here, we assessed promoter methylation status and the level of hMLH1mRNA expression as the main component of MMR system in 51 GC patients using the methylation-specific PCR and real-time PCR, respectively. Moreover, we performed a promoter methylation study of the E-cadherin gene promoter.
Results: It was observed that, 12 out of 39 cases (23.5%) had hMLH1 overexpression. Hypermethylation of hMLH1 and E-cadherin promoter regions were observed in 25.5 and 36.4%, respectively. Although, there was no significant correlation between hMLH1 mRNA expression and clinicopathological features, there are significant correlations between E-cadherin promoter methylation and tumor stage (p = 0.028) and location (p = 0.025). The rate of hMLH1 promoter methylation in this study was lower than that in the other population, showing the importance of the other mechanisms, in gastric tumorigenesis.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that DNA repair system is adversely affected by hypermethylation of hMLH1 in a fraction of gastric cancer patients. Additionally, E-cadherin hypermethylation seen in a subset of our gastric cancer patients is consistent with other reports showing correlation with aggressiveness and metastasis of gastric cancer.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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