Loss of heterozygosity and mutational analyses of the ACTRII gene locus in human colorectal tumors |
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Authors: | Olaru Andreea Mori Yuriko Yin Jing Wang Suna Kimos Martha C Perry Kellie Xu Yan Sato Fumiaki Selaru Florin M Deacu Elena Sterian Anca Shibata David Abraham John M Meltzer Stephen J |
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Institution: | Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Baltimore Veteran's Affairs Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. |
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Abstract: | The activin type II receptorgene (ACTRII) is mutated in 58.1% of microsatellite-unstable (MSI-H) colorectal cancers and is a close relative of the TGFbeta-1 type II receptor, which is known to be involved in both MSI-H and non-MSI-H colorectal carcinogenesis. We therefore sought to determine whether ACTRII was involved in non-MSI-H colorectal cancers. We evaluated ACTRII inactivation by allelic deletion, loss of mRNA expression, or somatic mutation in 51 non-MSI-H colon cancers. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the ACTRII locus (2q23.1) was found in 9 (17.6%) of 51 primary tumors. Loss of ACTRII mRNA expression was seen in one (14.3%) of the seven LOH-positive primary tumors from which total RNA was available. We also performed DNA sequencing analysis of tumors showing LOH. One LOH-positive primary tumor exhibited a novel germline missense sequence alteration (amino acid substitution, 117 Ile to Phe) that was not found in 23 additional normal individuals, implying that this alteration is not a frequent polymorphism. We conclude that ACTRII is probably involved in both non-MSI-H and MSI-H colorectal carcinogenesis, but more frequently in the latter subgroup. |
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