MicroRNA expression profiling identifies miR-31-5p/3p as associated with time to progression in wild-type RAS metastatic colorectal cancer treated with cetuximab

Autor: Manuela Ferracin, Jitka Mlčochová, Stanislav John, Barbara Zagatti, Igor Kiss, Petra Faltejskova-Vychytilova, Massimo Negrini, Ondrej Slaby, Marek Svoboda, Radim Nemecek, Rostislav Vyzula, Lenka Radová
Přispěvatelé: Mlcochova, Jitka, Faltejskova-Vychytilova, Petra, Ferracin, Manuela, Zagatti, Barbara, Radova, Lenka, Svoboda, Marek, Nemecek, Radim, John, Stanislav, Kiss, Igor, Vyzula, Rostislav, Negrini, Massimo, Slaby, Ondrej
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Oncotarget
ISSN: 1949-2553
Popis: // Jitka Mlcochova 1 , Petra Faltejskova-Vychytilova 1, 2 , Manuela Ferracin 3 , Barbara Zagatti 3 , Lenka Radova 1 , Marek Svoboda 2 , Radim Nemecek 2 , Stanislav John 4 , Igor Kiss 2 , Rostislav Vyzula 2 , Massimo Negrini 3 , Ondrej Slaby 1, 2 1 Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 2 Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Department of Comprehensive Cancer Care, Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic 3 Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy 4 Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Faculty Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Correspondence to: Ondrej Slaby, e-mail: on.slaby@gmail.com Massimo Negrini, e-mail: ngm@unife.it Keywords: microRNA, metastatic colorectal cancer, EGFR, cetuximab, panitumumab Received: May 17, 2015 Accepted: October 08, 2015 Published: October 20, 2015 ABSTRACT The aim of our study was to investigate whether microRNAs (miRNAs) could serve as predictive biomarkers to anti-EGFR therapy (cetuximab, panitumumab) in patients with RAS wild-type (wt-RAS) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Historical cohort of 93 patients with mCRC (2006–2009) was included and further divided into exploratory and validation cohorts. MiRNAs expression profiling was performed on the exploratory cohort of 41 wt-KRAS mCRC patients treated with cetuximab to identify miRNAs associated with time to progression (TTP). The validation was performed on two independent cohorts: 28 patients of wt-RAS mCRC treated with cetuximab and 24 patients of wt-RAS mCRC treated with panitumumab. We identified 9 miRNAs with significantly different expression between responders and non-responders to cetuximab therapy ( P ≤ 0.01). These 9 miRNAs were further evaluated in two independent cohorts of patients and miR-31-3p ( P < 0.001) and miR-31-5p ( P < 0.001) were successfully confirmed as strongly associated with TTP in wt-RAS mCRC patients treated with cetuximab but not panitumumab. When evaluated on the complete cohort of cetuximab patients ( N = 69), miR-31-3p (HR, 5.10; 95% CI, 2.52–10.32; P < 0.001) and miR-31-5p (HR, 4.80; 95% CI, 2.50–9.24; P < 0.001) were correlated with TTP on the comparable level of significance. There was no difference in miR-31-5p/3p expression levels in RAS mutated and wild-type tumor samples. MiR-31-5p/3p are promising predictive biomarkers of cetuximab response in wt-RAS mCRC patients.
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