METH-2 silencing and promoter hypermethylation in NSCLC

J R Dunn, D Panutsopulos, M W Shaw, J Heighway, R Dormer, E N Salmo, S G Watson, J K Field, T Liloglou

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Abstract

The antiangiogenic factor METH-2 (ADAMTS-8) was identified in a previous dual-channel cDNA microarray analysis to be at least two-fold under-represented in 85% (28 out of 33) of primary non-small-cell lung carcinomas (NSCLCs). This observation has been validated in an independent series of NSCLCs and adjacent normal tissues by comparative multiplex RT-PCR, and METH-2 mRNA expression was dramatically reduced in all 23 tumour samples analysed. Immunohistochemical analysis of the same sample set demonstrated that METH-2 was strongly expressed in 14 out of 19 normal epithelial sites examined but only one out of 20 NSCLCs. DNA methylation analysis of the proximal promoter region of this gene revealed abnormal hypermethylation in 67% of the adenocarcinomas and 50% of squamous cell carcinomas, indicating that epigenetic mechanisms are involved in silencing this gene in NSCLC. No homozygous deletions of METH-2 were found in lung cancer cell lines. Allelic imbalance in METH-2 was assessed by an intronic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) assay and observed in 44% of informative primary samples. In conclusion, the downregulation of METH-2 expression in primary NSCLC, often associated with promoter hypermethylation, is a frequent event, which may be related to the development of the disease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1149-54
Number of pages6
JournalBritish Journal of Cancer
Volume91
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Sept 2004

Keywords

  • ADAM Proteins
  • ADAMTS Proteins
  • Adenocarcinoma/genetics
  • Aged
  • Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/genetics
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/genetics
  • DNA Methylation
  • DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics
  • Gene Silencing
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms/genetics
  • Metalloendopeptidases/genetics
  • Middle Aged
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
  • RNA, Messenger/genetics
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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