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Identification of novel biomarker candidates for the immunohistochemical diagnosis of cholangiocellular carcinoma.


ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was the identification of novel biomarker candidates for the diagnosis of cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC) and its immunohistochemical differentiation from benign liver and bile duct cells. CCC is a primary cancer that arises from the epithelial cells of bile ducts and is characterized by high mortality rates due to its late clinical presentation and limited treatment options. Tumorous tissue and adjacent non-tumorous liver tissue from eight CCC patients were analyzed by means of two-dimensional differential in-gel electrophoresis and mass-spectrometry-based label-free proteomics. After data analysis and statistical evaluation of the proteins found to be differentially regulated between the two experimental groups (fold change ? 1.5; p value ? 0.05), 14 candidate proteins were chosen for determination of the cell-type-specific expression profile via immunohistochemistry in a cohort of 14 patients. This confirmed the significant up-regulation of serpin H1, 14-3-3 protein sigma, and stress-induced phosphoprotein 1 in tumorous cholangiocytes relative to normal hepatocytes and non-tumorous cholangiocytes, whereas some proteins were detectable specifically in hepatocytes. Because stress-induced phosphoprotein 1 exhibited both sensitivity and specificity of 100%, an immunohistochemical verification examining tissue sections of 60 CCC patients was performed. This resulted in a specificity of 98% and a sensitivity of 64%. We therefore conclude that this protein should be considered as a potential diagnostic biomarker for CCC in an immunohistochemical application, possibly in combination with other candidates from this study in the form of a biomarker panel. This could improve the differential diagnosis of CCC and benign bile duct diseases, as well as metastatic malignancies in the liver.

SUBMITTER: Padden J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4188994 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of novel biomarker candidates for the immunohistochemical diagnosis of cholangiocellular carcinoma.

Padden Juliet J   Megger Dominik A DA   Bracht Thilo T   Reis Henning H   Ahrens Maike M   Kohl Michael M   Eisenacher Martin M   Schlaak Jörg F JF   Canbay Ali E AE   Weber Frank F   Hoffmann Andreas-Claudius AC   Kuhlmann Katja K   Meyer Helmut E HE   Baba Hideo A HA   Sitek Barbara B  

Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 20140717 10


The aim of this study was the identification of novel biomarker candidates for the diagnosis of cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC) and its immunohistochemical differentiation from benign liver and bile duct cells. CCC is a primary cancer that arises from the epithelial cells of bile ducts and is characterized by high mortality rates due to its late clinical presentation and limited treatment options. Tumorous tissue and adjacent non-tumorous liver tissue from eight CCC patients were analyzed by m  ...[more]