- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00173680
Methylation Status of CD44 Promoter Region in Primary Lung Cancer
Study Overview
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Detailed Description
CD44 is a cell surface receptor for the extracellular matrix hyaluronan. It mediates adhesion of cells to the extracellular matrix. Its ability to organize extracellular matrix into a medium is also used by cancer cells in their becoming metastatic. Invasive tumor cells are frequently observed to bind hyaluronate.
CD44 gene is made up of 20 exons, at least 10 of which are variably expressed due to alternative splicing of the mRNA. The standard form, CD44s, has a coding sequence of exons 1-5 and 16-20. Variant isoforms (CD44v), all larger, arise from alternative splicing of combinations of exons 6-15 (v1-10). A variant isoform CD44 can induce metastasis of a rat pancreatic carcinoma. Studies in human tumors, however, have produced variable results. Some breast cancers demonstrate positive correlation between CD44v expression and tumor progression, while others lack any correlation. Some colorectal tumors even show an inverse correlation. CD44 has also been demonstrated to be a metastasis suppressor gene for prostate cancer. Thus, CD44 may be a marker for metastasis for some tumors, but not for others, and it may actually be a metastasis suppressor gene for yet another groups of tumors.
For primary lung cancer, the correlation between CD44 expression and tumor metastasis has not been established. The metastasis-prone small cell lung cancer rarely showed any immunohistochemical staining for CD44s or CD44v. For non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), some studies showed positive correlation between immunohistochemical CD44v expression and tumor progression, while others showed no correlation. Our own study using RT-PCR, sequencing and immunohistochemical staining showed that in pulmonary adenocarcinoma, CD44v6 expression is down-regulated as the disease progressed. Based on our finding, and the observation that CD44s and CD44v expression are low in metastasis-prone small cell lung cancer, we assue that CD44 is a metastasis suppressor gene which is inactivated in lung cancers. Because in prostate cancer DNA hypermethylation has been shown to be related to the down-regulation of CD44 gene, we plan to study the methylation status of the transcriptional regulatory region of CD44 gene in primary lung cancer. We'll study CD44 expression by immunohistochemistry, the methylation status of CD44 regulatory region by sequencing of the bisulfite-modified genomic DNA, and correlate these two findings with each other, and with histologic type, tumor staging and survival.
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Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nation Taiwan University Hospital
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Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Non-small cell lung cancer
Exclusion Criteria:
- No
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Investigators
- Principal Investigator: LINA LEE, MD,PhD, Department of Labrotoary Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Taipei
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 9461700826
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