Abstract 4019: Functional profiling of signal transduction pathway proteins in gastric cancer patients

Autor: Jae Moon Bae, G. Harvie, Belen Ybarrondo, Phillip Kim, Jeeyun Lee, Kyoung-Mee Kim, Jae Hyoung Noh, Won Ki Kang, Limin Liu, Xinjun Liu, Sharat Singh, Tae Sung Sohn, Joon Oh Park, Sung Kim, Tani Lee
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Cancer Research. 70:4019-4019
ISSN: 1538-7445
0008-5472
DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am10-4019
Popis: Although gastrectomy is the only curative treatment in gastric cancer (GCA) patients, a high recurrence rate ranging from 40 ∼ 60% following curative surgery still accounts for poor overall survival. In order to further improve survival, there is an urgent need to identify reliable molecular prognostic markers for survival or recurrence following adjuvant chemoradiation therapy, which will evolve to the development of patient-tailored treatment strategies. The improvement of gastric cancer therapy will eventually depend on novel therapeutic approaches targeting molecules critical for cancer proliferation. As the transduction pathway proteins function in cell signaling and transmit signals regulating growth, differentiation, adhesion, migration, and apoptosis, they have become targets of various therapeutic agents. Hence, we have developed a multiplexed immunoassay platform for functional profiling of the transduction pathway proteins. The COllaborative Proximity ImmunoAssay (COPIA) is a multiplexed protein microarray platform that utilizes the formation of a unique immuno-complex requiring co-localization of two detector-antibodies. The detector-antibodies are conjugated with corresponding channeling-enzymes, glucose oxidase (GO) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP). Once target proteins are bound by the capture antibodies, the channeling events between GO and HRP in proximity enables the profiling of the target proteins with extreme sensitivity. COPIA delivers extremely high analytical specificity as it requires multiple entities within target specific proximity for the signal generation/amplification. COPIA can also be configured for each specific target protein to allow differential detection of truncated targets (i.e., p95HER2) from their normal counter parts (i.e., HER2). We applied COPIA to investigate the levels of expression and activation of signaling proteins in frozen tissues collected from GCA patients. Here we report the prevalence of HER1, HER2, p95HER2, HER3, IGF1-R, c-MET, PI3K, Shc, VEGFR, panCK, and other signal transduction pathway protein expression and their levels of activation in GCA patients. The improvement of gastric cancer therapy will eventually depend on novel therapeutic approaches targeting specific markers identified by functional profiling. As the disease profile often shifts in recurrent cancers and under different therapeutic pressure, clinical information obtained by analyzing samples (often with limited availability) obtained from ‘evolving / heterogeneous disease’ can help clinicians adjust their disease treatment options for each patient according to ‘personal’ cancer profile-shift. Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2010 Apr 17-21; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2010;70(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 4019.
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