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Metastasis of neuroendocrine tumors are characterized by increased cell proliferation and reduced expression of the ATM gene.


ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) are rare group of tumors with a wide spectrum of clinical behavior. However, there are no known clinically relevant biomarkers to predict metastasis.

Experimental design

To investigate differential gene expression signatures of metastatic vs non-metastatic NETs, we studied cell cycle regulatory genes in 19 metastatic and 22 non-metastatic colorectal NETs by PCR arrays. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and quantitative real-time RT-PCR were performed to verify the results and another set of 38 GEP-NETs were further studied for validation.

Results

We first delineated six candidate genes for metastasis including ATM, CCND2, RBL2, CDKN3, CCNB1, and GTSE1. ATM was negatively correlated with metastatic NETs (p<0.001) with more than 2-fold change compared to non-metastatic NETs. Overexpression of ATM protein by IHC was strongly correlated with high ATM mRNA levels and low Ki-67 labeling index. Patients with ATM-negativity by IHC showed significantly decreased overall survival than patients with ATM-positivity (median OS, metastatic vs non-metastatic NETs; 2.7 years vs not reached; p = 0.003) and 85.7% of metastatic NETs were ATM-negative. In another validation set of GEP-NETs, decreased mRNA of ATM gene was associated with metastasis and remained significant (p = 0.023).

Conclusions

ATM down-regulation was strongly associated with metastatic NETs when compared with non-metastatic NETs and ATM may be a potential predictive marker for metastasis as well as a novel target in metastatic GEP-NETs.

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3317775 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Metastasis of neuroendocrine tumors are characterized by increased cell proliferation and reduced expression of the ATM gene.

Lee Jeeyun J   Sung Chang Ohk CO   Lee Eui J EJ   Do In-Gu IG   Kim Hee-Cheol HC   Yoon Seong Hyeon SH   Lee Woo Yong WY   Chun Ho Kyung HK   Kim Kyoung-Mee KM   Park Young Suk YS  

PloS one 20120402 4


<h4>Purpose</h4>Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) are rare group of tumors with a wide spectrum of clinical behavior. However, there are no known clinically relevant biomarkers to predict metastasis.<h4>Experimental design</h4>To investigate differential gene expression signatures of metastatic vs non-metastatic NETs, we studied cell cycle regulatory genes in 19 metastatic and 22 non-metastatic colorectal NETs by PCR arrays. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and quantitative real-  ...[more]

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