胃癌组织中PDCD4基因的表达和甲基化水平及其临床意义

目的 观察胃癌组织中抑癌基因PDCD4启动子区甲基化状态及其对PDCD4表达水平的影响并探讨其临床意义。方法 通过免疫组织化学、Western blot法检测胃癌组织中PDCD4蛋白的表达;RT-PCR法检测PDCD4 mRNA的表达;甲基化特异性PCR（MSP）法检测PDCD4启动子区甲基化水平。分析PDCD4表达水平以及启动子甲基化水平与胃癌患者临床病理特征之间的相关性。结果 胃癌组织中PDCD4蛋白及mRNA表达水平均显著降低（P<0.05）,甲基化作用显著增强（P<0.05）。PDCD4蛋白表达缺失与胃癌的分化、临床分期以及淋巴结转移密切相关（P<0.05）;PDCD4高甲基化与胃癌的淋巴结转移、临床分期密切相关（P<0.05）。PDCD4甲基化水平与PDCD4蛋白以及mRNA表达水平均呈负相关（P<0.05）。结论 胃癌组织中PDCD4表达水平显著降低,并与胃癌发展相关,启动子区高甲基化可能是PDCD4表达缺失的原因。     

Novel genetic variants in KIF16B and NEDD4L in the endosome-related genes are associated with nonsmall cell lung cancer survival

The endosome is a membrane-bound organ inside most eukaryotic cells, playing an important role in adaptive immunity by delivering endocytosed antigens to both MHC class I and II pathways. Here, by analyzing genotyping data from two published genome-wide association studies (GWASs), we evaluated associations between genetic variants in the endosome-related gene-set and survival of patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The discovery included 44,112 (3,478 genotyped and 40,634 imputed) single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 220 genes in a singlelocus analysis for their associations with survival of 1,185 NSCLC patients from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial. After validation of the 821 survival-associated significant SNPs in additional 984 NSCLC patients from the Harvard Lung Cancer Susceptibility Study, 14 SNPs remained significant. The final multivariate stepwise Cox proportional hazards regression modeling of the PLCO dataset identified three potentially functional and independent SNPs (i.e., KIF16B rs1555195 C>T, NEDD4L rs11660748 A>G and rs73440898 A>G) with an adjusted hazards ratio (HR) of 0.86 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.79–0.94, p = 0.0007), 1.31 (1.16–1.47, p = 6.0 × 10⁻⁵) and 1.27 (1.12–1.44, p = 0.0001) for overall survival (OS), respectively. Combined analysis of the adverse genotypes of these three SNPs revealed a trend in the genotype-survival association (p_trend < 0.0001 for OS and p_trend < 0.0001 for disease-specific survival). Furthermore, the survival-associated KIF16B rs1555195T allele was significantly associated with decreased mRNA expression levels of KIF16B in both lung tissues and blood cells. Therefore, genetic variants of the endosome-related genes may be biomarker for NSCLC survival, possibly through modulating the expression of corresponding genes.