Downstream Signaling of Inflammasome Pathway Affects Patients’ Outcome in the Context of Distinct Molecular Breast Cancer Subtypes

Autor: Concetta Saponaro, Annarita Fanizzi, Margherita Sonnessa, Paolo Mondelli, Daniele Vergara, Donato Loisi, Raffaella Massafra, Agnese Latorre, Francesco A. Zito, Laura Schirosi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Pharmaceuticals, Vol 15, Iss 6, p 651 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8247
DOI: 10.3390/ph15060651
Popis: Inflammasomes are protein complexes involved in the regulation of different biological conditions. Over the past few years, the role of NLRP3 in different tumor types has gained interest. In breast cancer (BC), NLRP3 has been associated with multiple processes including epithelia mesenchymal transition, invasion and metastization. Little is known about molecular modifications of NLRP3 up-regulation. In this study, in a cohort of BCs, the expression levels of NLRP3 and PYCARD were analyzed in combination with CyclinD1 and MYC ones and their gene alterations. We described a correlation between the NLRP3/PYCARD axis and CyclinD1 (p < 0.0001). NLRP3, PYCARD and CyclinD1’s positive expression was observed in estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR) positive cases (p < 0.0001). Furthermore, a reduction of NLRP3 and PYCARD expression has been observed in triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs) with respect to the Luminal phenotypes (p = 0.017 and p = 0.0015, respectively). The association NLRP3+/CCND1+ or PYCARD+/CCND1+ was related to more aggressive clinicopathological characteristics and a worse clinical outcome, both for progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) with respect to NLRP3+/CCND1− or PYCARD+/CCND1− patients, both in the whole cohort and also in the subset of Luminal tumors. In conclusion, our study shows that the NLRP3 inflammasome complex is down-regulated in TNBC compared to the Luminal subgroup. Moreover, the expression levels of NLRP3 and PYCARD together with the alterations of CCND1 results in Luminal subtype BC’ss poor prognosis.
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