KPNA2 Expression Is an Independent Adverse Predictor of Biochemical Recurrence after Radical Prostatectomy

Mortezavi, Ashkan and Hermanns, Thomas and Seifert, Hans-Helge and Baumgartner, Martin K. and Provenzano, Maurizio and Sulser, Tullio and Burger, Maximilian and Montani, Matteo and Ikenberg, Kristian and Hofstaedter, Ferdinand and Hartmann, Arndt and Jaggi, Rolf and Moch, Holger and Kristiansen, Glen and Wild, Peter J. (2011) KPNA2 Expression Is an Independent Adverse Predictor of Biochemical Recurrence after Radical Prostatectomy. CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, 17 (5). pp. 1111-1121. ISSN 1078-0432,

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Abstract

Purpose: To analyze rates of expression of karyopherin alpha 2 (KPNA2) in different prostate tissues and to evaluate the prognostic properties for patients with primary prostate cancer. Experimental Design: Tissue microarrays (TMA) contained 798 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded prostate tissue cores from two different institutes of pathology. TMAs were stained immunohistochemically for KPNA2 and NBS1. SiRNA technologies were used to inhibit KPNA2 expression in vitro, and the effect of this inhibition on cellular viability was determined. Efficiency of knockdown experiments was determined by Western blot analysis. Results: KPNA2 expression was significantly upregulated in carcinomas of the prostate, especially in metastatic and castration-resistant prostate cancer samples. Positive nuclear KPNA2 immunoreactivity was identified as a novel predictor of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy (n = 348), and was independent of the well-established predictive factors preoperative PSA value, Gleason score, tumor stage, and surgical margin status. These results were validated by analyzing a second and independent prostate cancer cohort (n = 330). Further, in vitro experiments showed that the cell proliferation and viability of PC3 cells was significantly reduced when KPNA2 expression was inhibited. KPNA2 knockdown did not induce PARP cleavage as marker for apoptosis. No significantly increased sub-G(1) fraction could be found by FACS analysis. Conclusions: KPNA2 is a novel independent prognostic marker for disease progression after radical prostatectomy. This allows to identify patients who need more aggressive treatment. It can moreover be speculated that patients not suited for surveillance regimens might be identified at initial biopsy by a positive KPNA2 immunohistochemistry. Clin Cancer Res; 17(5); 1111-21. (C)2011 AACR.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: NUCLEAR-LOCALIZATION; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; PROGNOSTIC MARKER; IMPORTIN KPNA2; BREAST-CANCER; PSA RELAPSE; SURVIVAL; TUMOR; PROLIFERATION; NBS1;
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Pathologie
Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Urologie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 25 Jun 2020 08:08
Last Modified: 25 Jun 2020 08:08
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/21234

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