Deletion and mutation of WWOX exons 6-8 in human non-small cell lung cancer.
- Author:
Yulong, ZHOU
;
Yongjian, XU
;
Zhenxiang, ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*genetics;
Exons/genetics;
Gene Deletion;
Loss of Heterozygosity;
Lung Neoplasms/*genetics;
Oxidoreductases/*genetics;
Point Mutation;
Sequence Analysis, DNA;
Tumor Suppressor Proteins
- From:
Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences)
2005;25(2):162-5
- CountryChina
- Language:English
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Abstract:
To examine the deletion and point mutation of WWOX (WW domain containing oxidoreductase) exons 6-8 in human non-small cell lung cancer and their possible relationship with pathological stages, tumor tissues and the corresponding normal tissues were obtained from 44 Chinese patients who had undergone surgery for non-small cell lung cancer. RNA was extracted from each sample and deletion and mutation of WWOX exons 6-8 were analyzed by RT-PCR and DNA sequencing. Our results showed that 28 of 44 (63.6%) lung cancer samples showed loss of WWOX exons 6-8 transcript and the deletion was detected in only 3 of 44 (6.8%) corresponding adjacent normal tissues (P < 0.05). The transcript sequencing analyses of the 16 lung cancer samples without transcript loss of WWOX exons 6-8 revealed no difference from the sequence of GenBank. Moreover, the deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 was significantly higher in the smokers when compared with the non-smokers. It is also higher in the men and squamous carcinomas than in women and adenocarcinomas (P < 0. 05). The deletion, however, was not found to be associated with pathological stages of the tumors. Our study documented a high incidence of deletion of WWOX exons 6-8 in non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese patients and suggested that the frequent loss of WWOX exons 6-8 might play an important role in the tumorigenesis of non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese. WWOX exons 6-8 may serves as a candidate molecular target of smoking carcinogenesis, and point mutation is not a predominant way of alteration of WWOX exons 6-8.
