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Expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene hSRBC is frequently lost in primary lung cancers with and without DNA methylation.

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Zöchbauer-Müller, S; Fong, KM; Geradts, J; Xu, X; Seidl, S; End-Pfützenreuter, A; Lang, G; Heller, G; Zielinski, CC; Gazdar, AF; Minna, JD
Published in: Oncogene
September 15, 2005

Recently, the human SRBC (hSRBC) gene, a candidate tumor suppressor gene (TSG), has been mapped to the chromosomal region 11p 15.5--p15.4 where frequent allele loss has been described in lung cancer. Aberrant methylation (referred to as methylation) of the promoter region of TSGs has been identified as an important mechanism for gene silencing. Loss of hSRBC protein expression occurs frequently in lung cancer cell lines and sodium bisulfite sequencing of the promoter region of hSRBC in several lung cancer cell lines suggested that methylation plays an important role in inactivating hSRBC. To determine the methylation status of hSRBC in a large collection of primary lung cancer samples, corresponding nonmalignant lung tissues and lung cancer cell lines (N=52), we designed primers for a methylation-specific PCR assay. Methylation was detected in 41% of primary non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLC) (N=107) and in 80% of primary small-cell lung cancers (SCLC) (N=5), but was seen only in 4% of corresponding nonmalignant lung tissues (N=103). In all, 79% of lung cancer cell lines were methylated and the frequency of hSRBC methylation was significantly higher in SCLC (100%) than in NSCLC (58%) cell lines. Normal hSRBC protein expression was detected in only 18% of primary NSCLCs (N=93) by immunostaining and a significant association between loss of protein expression and methylation was found. hSRBC re-expression was observed after treatment of lung cancer cells with the demethylating agent 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. In addition, 45% of the 76 hSRBC immunostaining-negative NSCLCs did not have hSRBC promoter methylation, indicating that other mechanisms of hSRBC expression silencing also exist. Both hSRBC immunostaining and methylation results did not correlate with clinicopathological characteristics of these patients. Our findings suggest that hSRBC is a candidate TSG involved in lung cancer pathogenesis, where expression is frequently inactivated by methylation and other mechanisms.

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Oncogene

DOI

ISSN

0950-9232

Publication Date

September 15, 2005

Volume

24

Issue

41

Start / End Page

6249 / 6255

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Oncology & Carcinogenesis
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Humans
  • DNA Primers
  • DNA Methylation
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
  • Base Sequence
 

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Zöchbauer-Müller, S., Fong, K. M., Geradts, J., Xu, X., Seidl, S., End-Pfützenreuter, A., … Minna, J. D. (2005). Expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene hSRBC is frequently lost in primary lung cancers with and without DNA methylation. Oncogene, 24(41), 6249–6255. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1208775
Zöchbauer-Müller, Sabine, Kwun M. Fong, Joseph Geradts, Xie Xu, Sonja Seidl, Adelheid End-Pfützenreuter, György Lang, et al. “Expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene hSRBC is frequently lost in primary lung cancers with and without DNA methylation.Oncogene 24, no. 41 (September 15, 2005): 6249–55. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1208775.
Zöchbauer-Müller S, Fong KM, Geradts J, Xu X, Seidl S, End-Pfützenreuter A, et al. Expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene hSRBC is frequently lost in primary lung cancers with and without DNA methylation. Oncogene. 2005 Sep 15;24(41):6249–55.
Zöchbauer-Müller, Sabine, et al. “Expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene hSRBC is frequently lost in primary lung cancers with and without DNA methylation.Oncogene, vol. 24, no. 41, Sept. 2005, pp. 6249–55. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208775.
Zöchbauer-Müller S, Fong KM, Geradts J, Xu X, Seidl S, End-Pfützenreuter A, Lang G, Heller G, Zielinski CC, Gazdar AF, Minna JD. Expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene hSRBC is frequently lost in primary lung cancers with and without DNA methylation. Oncogene. 2005 Sep 15;24(41):6249–6255.

Published In

Oncogene

DOI

ISSN

0950-9232

Publication Date

September 15, 2005

Volume

24

Issue

41

Start / End Page

6249 / 6255

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Oncology & Carcinogenesis
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Humans
  • DNA Primers
  • DNA Methylation
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
  • Base Sequence