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Digital-Direct-RT-PCR: a sensitive and specific method for quantification of CTC in patients with cervical carcinoma.


ABSTRACT: The detection of circulating tumour cells (CTC) in cancer patients may be useful for therapy monitoring and prediction of relapse. A sensitive assay based on HPV-oncogene transcripts which are highly specific for cervical cancer cells was established. The Digital-Direct-RT-PCR (DD-RT-PCR) combines Ficoll-separation, ThinPrep-fixation and one-step RT-PCR in a low-throughput digital-PCR format enabling the direct analysis and detection of individual CTC without RNA isolation. Experimental samples demonstrated a sensitivity of one HPV-positive cell in 500,000 HPV-negative cells. Spike-in experiments with down to 5 HPV-positive cells per millilitre EDTA-blood resulted in concordant positive results by PCR and immunocytochemistry. Blood samples from 3 of 10 CxCa patients each contained a single HPV-oncogene transcript expressing CTC among 5 to 15*10(5)?MNBC. Only 1 of 7 patients with local but 2 of 3 women with systemic disease had CTC. This highly sensitive DD-RT-PCR for the detection of CTC may also be applied to other tumour entities which express tumour-specific transcripts.

SUBMITTER: Pfitzner C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3913920 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Digital-Direct-RT-PCR: a sensitive and specific method for quantification of CTC in patients with cervical carcinoma.

Pfitzner Claudia C   Schröder Isabel I   Scheungraber Cornelia C   Dogan Askin A   Runnebaum Ingo Bernhard IB   Dürst Matthias M   Häfner Norman N  

Scientific reports 20140205


The detection of circulating tumour cells (CTC) in cancer patients may be useful for therapy monitoring and prediction of relapse. A sensitive assay based on HPV-oncogene transcripts which are highly specific for cervical cancer cells was established. The Digital-Direct-RT-PCR (DD-RT-PCR) combines Ficoll-separation, ThinPrep-fixation and one-step RT-PCR in a low-throughput digital-PCR format enabling the direct analysis and detection of individual CTC without RNA isolation. Experimental samples  ...[more]

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