Genetic landscape of sporadic unilateral adrenocortical adenomas without PRKACA p.Leu206Arg mutation

Autor: Cristina L Ronchi, Felix Beuschlein, Silviu Sbiera, Martin Fassnacht, Carla Scaroni, Massimo Mannelli, Guido Di Dalmazi, Iacopo Chiodini, Beatrice Rubin, Jens Waldmann, Franco Mantero, Martin Reincke, Detlef K. Bartsch, Davide Calebiro, Thomas Schwarzmayr, Tim M. Strom, Silke Appenzeller, Guillaume Assié, Darko Kastelan, Jérôme Bertherat, Simon Faillot, Isabel Weigand
Přispěvatelé: Ronchi, Cristina L, DI DALMAZI, Guido, Faillot, Simon, Sbiera, Silviu, Assié, Guillaume, Weigand, Isabel, Calebiro, Davide, Schwarzmayr, Thoma, Appenzeller, Silke, Rubin, Beatrice, Waldmann, Jen, Scaroni, Carla, Bartsch, Detlef K., Mantero, Franco, Mannelli, Massimo, Kastelan, Darko, Chiodini, Iacopo, Bertherat, Jerome, Reincke, Martin, Strom, Tim M., Fassnacht, Martin, Beuschlein, Felix, University of Zurich
Jazyk: němčina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
1303 Biochemistry
Endocrinology
Diabetes and Metabolism

Clinical Biochemistry
10265 Clinic for Endocrinology and Diabetology
610 Medicine & health
Context (language use)
1308 Clinical Biochemistry
Biology
2704 Biochemistry (medical)
medicine.disease_cause
Biochemistry
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Endocrinology
Internal medicine
Biomarkers
Tumor

medicine
Humans
Exome
Protein kinase A signaling
Gene
Aged
Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunits
Mutation
Biochemistry (medical)
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Middle Aged
Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms
1310 Endocrinology
PRKACA
2712 Endocrinology
Diabetes and Metabolism

030104 developmental biology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Adrenocortical Adenoma
Female
Signal transduction
Carcinogenesis
Follow-Up Studies
Hormone
Zdroj: J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 101, 3526-3538 (2016)
Popis: Context: Adrenocortical adenomas (ACAs) are among the most frequent human neoplasias. Genetic alterations affecting the cAMP/protein kinase A signaling pathway are common in cortisol-producing ACAs, whereas activating mutations in the gene encoding β-catenin (CTNNB1) have been reported in a subset of both benign and malignant adrenocortical tumors. However, the molecular pathogenesis of most ACAs is still largely unclear. Objective: The aim of the study was to define the genetic landscape of sporadic unilateral ACAs. Design and Setting: Next-generation whole-exome sequencing was performed on fresh-frozen tumor samples and corresponding normal tissue samples. Patients: Ninety-nine patients with ACAs (74 cortisol-producing and 25 endocrine inactive) negative for p.Leu206Arg PRKACA mutation. Main Outcome Measures: Identification of known and/or new genetic alterations potentially involved in adrenocortical tumorigenesis and autonomous hormone secretion, genotype-phenotype correlation. Results: A total of 706 somatic protein-altering mutations were detected in 88 of 99 tumors (median, six per tumor). We identified several mutations in genes of the cAMP/protein kinase A pathway, including three novel mutations in PRKACA, associated with female sex and Cushing's syndrome. We also found genetic alterations in different genes involved in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, associated with larger tumors and endocrine inactivity, and notably, in many genes of the Ca2+-signaling pathway. Finally, by comparison of our genetic data with those available in the literature, we describe a comprehensive genetic landscape of unilateral ACAs. Conclusions: This study provides the largest sequencing effort on ACAs to date. We thereby identified somatic alterations affecting known and novel pathways potentially involved in adrenal tumorigenesis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE