TY - JOUR
T1 - p53 genetic alterations, protein expression and autoantibodies in human colorectal carcinoma
T2 - A comparative study
AU - Hallak, Rana
AU - Mueller, Joerg
AU - Lotter, Oliver
AU - Gansauge, Susanne
AU - Gansauge, Frank
AU - Jumma, Muhi El Deen
AU - Montenarh, Mathias
AU - Safi, Farouk
AU - Beger, Hans
PY - 1998/4
Y1 - 1998/4
N2 - This study investigated a total number of 120 colorectal malignant tumor tissues by applying a new quantitative luminometric assay (LIA)-mat, immunohistochemistry (IHC) (n=100), PCR/SSCP (n=42), and sequencing (n=7). Sera were collected from 235 patients suffering from colorectal carcinoma in addition to 195 healthy individuals as a control group. Manual ELISA kit was developed to detect p53 autoantibodies in the sera of those patients. Our data demonstrated that the LIA-mat yields reliable estimates of p53 expression in soluble cell extracts as compared with results obtained by immunohistochemistry which showed positive immunostaining in 63% of the studied cases. Using a cut-off value of 1.8 ng/mg protein, 65 tumors out of 120 (54%) were classified to be positive by LIA-mat, manifesting protein overexpression, while 22 out of 42 (52%) tumor samples showed p53 gene alteration when applying single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis on polymerase chain reaction products. In tumor samples without a p53 gene alteration, the median soluble p53 protein level was 4.3 ng/mg protein, whereas the median p53 protein level for tumor samples with p53 gene alteration was 7.5 times higher. Despite a significant correlation between the outcome of LIA and SSCP, a disagreement was found in 30% of cases. We found no significant correlation between p53 protein overexpression and clinicopathological findings except for distant metastasis (p=0.33), indicating p53 immunoreactivity to be an independent prognostic factor. Our data showed that 18% of patients suffering from colorectal cancer developed autoantibodies against p53 in their sera which might be an early indicator for tumor development and distant metastasis.
AB - This study investigated a total number of 120 colorectal malignant tumor tissues by applying a new quantitative luminometric assay (LIA)-mat, immunohistochemistry (IHC) (n=100), PCR/SSCP (n=42), and sequencing (n=7). Sera were collected from 235 patients suffering from colorectal carcinoma in addition to 195 healthy individuals as a control group. Manual ELISA kit was developed to detect p53 autoantibodies in the sera of those patients. Our data demonstrated that the LIA-mat yields reliable estimates of p53 expression in soluble cell extracts as compared with results obtained by immunohistochemistry which showed positive immunostaining in 63% of the studied cases. Using a cut-off value of 1.8 ng/mg protein, 65 tumors out of 120 (54%) were classified to be positive by LIA-mat, manifesting protein overexpression, while 22 out of 42 (52%) tumor samples showed p53 gene alteration when applying single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis on polymerase chain reaction products. In tumor samples without a p53 gene alteration, the median soluble p53 protein level was 4.3 ng/mg protein, whereas the median p53 protein level for tumor samples with p53 gene alteration was 7.5 times higher. Despite a significant correlation between the outcome of LIA and SSCP, a disagreement was found in 30% of cases. We found no significant correlation between p53 protein overexpression and clinicopathological findings except for distant metastasis (p=0.33), indicating p53 immunoreactivity to be an independent prognostic factor. Our data showed that 18% of patients suffering from colorectal cancer developed autoantibodies against p53 in their sera which might be an early indicator for tumor development and distant metastasis.
KW - Colorectal carcinoma
KW - Quantitative luminometric assay
KW - p53 autoantibodies
KW - p53 gene
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U2 - 10.3892/ijo.12.4.785
DO - 10.3892/ijo.12.4.785
M3 - Article
C2 - 9499437
AN - SCOPUS:0031940191
SN - 1019-6439
VL - 12
SP - 785
EP - 791
JO - International journal of oncology
JF - International journal of oncology
IS - 4
ER -