Loss of 5′-Methylthioadenosine Phosphorylase (MTAP) is Frequent in High-Grade Gliomas; Nevertheless, it is Not Associated with Higher Tumor Aggressiveness

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GlauciaNoeli Maroso Hajj¹  IsabelaWerneck da Cunha¹  Carlos Clara²  GiseleCaravina Almeida³  Chris Jones⁴  MarcelaNunes Rosa⁵  LucasTadeu Bidinotto⁵  AnaLaura Vieira Alves⁵  MariaLuisa Corcoll Spina⁵  RuiManuel Reis⁵  Matias Melendez⁵  LucianeSussuchi da Silva⁵  IzabelaNatália Faria Gomes⁵  AdrianaCruvinel Carloni⁵  WederPereira de Menezes⁵  VivianeAline Oliveira Silva⁵ 

[1] A.C Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, São Paulo 015.080-10, Brazil;Department of Neurosurgery, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo 14.784-400, Brazil;Department of Pathology, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo 14.784-400, Brazil;Institute of Cancer Research, London SW7 3RP, UK;Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo 14.784-400, Brazil;

关键词: glioma;    glioblastoma;    5’-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (mtap);    immunohistochemistry;    tumor biology;    proliferation;    migration;    invasion;   

DOI  :  10.3390/cells9020492

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The 5’-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) gene is located in the chromosomal region 9p21. MTAP deletion is a frequent event in a wide variety of human cancers; however, its biological role in tumorigenesis remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to characterize the MTAP expression profile in a series of gliomas and to associate it with patients’ clinicopathological features. Moreover, we sought to evaluate, through glioma gene-edited cell lines, the biological impact of MTAP in gliomas. MTAP expression was evaluated in 507 glioma patients by immunohistochemistry (IHC), and the expression levels were associated with patients’ clinicopathological features. Furthermore, an in silico study was undertaken using genomic databases totalizing 350 samples. In glioma cell lines, MTAP was edited, and following MTAP overexpression and knockout (KO), a transcriptome analysis was performed by NanoString Pan-Cancer Pathways panel. Moreover, MTAP’s role in glioma cell proliferation, migration, and invasion was evaluated. Homozygous deletion of 9p21 locus was associated with a reduction of MTAP mRNA expression in the TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) - glioblastoma dataset (p < 0.01). In addition, the loss of MTAP expression was markedly high in high-grade gliomas (46.6% of cases) determined by IHC and Western blotting (40% of evaluated cell lines). Reduced MTAP expression was associated with a better prognostic in the adult glioblastoma dataset (p < 0.001). Nine genes associated with five pathways were differentially expressed in MTAP-knockout (KO) cells, with six upregulated and three downregulated in MTAP. Analysis of cell proliferation, migration, and invasion did not show any significant differences between MTAP gene-edited and control cells. Our results integrating data from patients as well as in silico and in vitro models provide evidence towards the lack of strong biological importance of MTAP in gliomas. Despite the frequent loss of MTAP, it seems not to have a clinical impact in survival and does not act as a canonic tumor suppressor gene in gliomas.

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