Epigenetic inactivation of ITIH5 promotes bladder cancer progression and predicts early relapse of pT1 high-grade urothelial tumours

Rose, Michael and Gaisa, Nadine T. and Antony, Pia and Fiedler, David and Heidenreich, Axel and Otto, Wolfgang and Denzinger, Stefan and Bertz, Simone and Hartmann, Arndt and Karl, Alexander and Knuechel, Ruth and Dahl, Edgar (2014) Epigenetic inactivation of ITIH5 promotes bladder cancer progression and predicts early relapse of pT1 high-grade urothelial tumours. CARCINOGENESIS, 35 (3). pp. 727-736. ISSN 0143-3334, 1460-2180

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Abstract

Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain 5 (ITIH5) has been associated with tumour suppression in various cancers. However, its putative role in bladder cancer is completely unknown. Therefore, we initiated a study analysing ITIH5 expression as well as its prognostic and functional impact on human urothelial cancers (UCs). Expression analysis showed a clear down-regulation of ITIH5 mRNA in 61% (n 45) of UCs, especially in muscle-invasive tumours (P < 0.001). ITIH5 loss in UCs was further evident on protein level (65.5%, n 55) as detected by immunohistochemistry. DNA methylation analysis demonstrated tumour-specific ITIH5 promoter methylation in 50% of papillary none-invasive pTa (n 30) and 68% of invasive (n 28) UCs. Aberrant ITIH5 promoter methylation in bladder tumours was tightly linked (P < 0.001) with loss of ITIH5 mRNA expression, which was furthermore functionally confirmed by demethylation analysis in cell lines. Pyrosequencing analysis revealed that ITIH5 promoter hypermethylation was closely associated with progressive bladder cancers. Subsequently, a large cohort (n 120) of clinically challenging pT1 high-grade UC was analysed for ITIH5 expression. Of clinical significance, we found an association between loss of ITIH5 expression and unfavourable prognosis of UC patients without distant metastasis at first diagnosis (recurrence-free survival; hazard ratio: 4.35, P 0.048). Functionally, ITIH5 re-expression in human RT112 bladder cancer cells led to both suppression of cell migration and inhibition of colony spreading. Hence, we provide evidence that down-regulation of ITIH5 by aberrant DNA hypermethylation may provoke invasive phenotypes in human bladder cancer. Moreover, ITIH5 protein might become a prognostic biomarker for relapse risk stratification in high-grade UC patients.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ALPHA-TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; BREAST-CANCER; HEAVY-CHAIN; EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX; CELL-CARCINOMA; HYALURONAN; FAMILY; EXPRESSION; TISSUE; GENE;
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Urologie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2019 09:55
Last Modified: 18 Nov 2019 09:55
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10587

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