Increased expression of ATG10 in colorectal cancer is associated with lymphovascular invasion and lymph node metastasis.

Autor: Yoon Kyung Jo, Seung Cheol Kim, In Ja Park, So Jung Park, Dong-Hoon Jin, Seung-Woo Hong, Dong-Hyung Cho, Jin Cheon Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 12, p e52705 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052705
Popis: BACKGROUND:Autophagy has paradoxical and complex functions in cancer development, and autophagy-related genes (ATG) are key regulators in autophagy. Until now, more than 30 different ATG proteins have been identified in yeast, and their mammalian counterparts also have been reported. Although the roles of a few ATG proteins in cancer have been characterized, the role of ATG10 is almost completely unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:To investigate the clinicopathological role of ATG10 in colorectal cancer, we analyzed ATG10 expression in colorectal cancer tissues and cell lines. Protein expression analysis showed that ATG10 is highly increased in colorectal cancer (tissue - 18/37 cases, 48%; cell line -8/12 cell lines, 66%). Immunohistochemical analysis with clinicopathological features indicated a strong association of the up-regulation of ATG10 with tumor lymph node metastasis (p = 0.005) and invasion (p
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