Similar expression pattern of NHERF1 and EZRIN in papillary but not in solid areas of human serous ovarian carcinomas

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• 作者：Brenda Demacopulo^a ; ^{brendadema@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Baltazar Eduardo Lema^b ; ^{laboratorioslema@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Ró ; mulo Luis Cabrini^a ; ^c ; ^{romulocabrini@fibertel.com.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Erica Lorena Kreimann^a ; ^{ekreimann@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{kreimann@cnea.gov.ar" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：NHERF1 ; EZRIN ; Ovarian cancer ; Papillary differentiation ; Apical localization
• 刊名：Acta Histochemica
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：118
• 期：8
• 页码：797-805
• 全文大小：4622 K

文摘

NHERF1 is an adaptor protein expressed in the apical membrane of polarized epithelia, which interacts with the EZRIN-Radixin-Moesin (ERM) family of proteins connecting signaling pathways to the cell cytoskeleton. NHERF1 and EZRIN cooperate in the maintenance of the apical microvilli in polarized epithelial cells. In several types of cancers, NHERF1 and EZRIN are displaced from the apical compartment to the cytoplasm and nuclei of cancer cells. At the present, the distribution of NHERF1 in ovarian tumors is not well known. In this study, NHERF1 expression was examined by immunohistochemistry in cyst adenofibromas, serous borderline tumors, and serous ovarian carcinomas. We observed a strong staining of NHERF1 and EZRIN at the membrane level of borderline tumors and areas of papillary structures in ovarian carcinomas. In tumors without papillary structures and compact structure, NHERF1 was exclusively expressed in the apical pole of the cells at the edges of the clefts of luminal spaces. In contrast, positive expression of EZRIN was found in the membrane of tumor cells within the solid tumor where NHERF1 was not expressed. In summary, this study shows, for the first time, the distribution of NHERF1 in ovarian cancer and reveals a different regulation of NHERF1 and EZRIN expression in ovarian tumors which represents the complexity of the molecular changes of this disease.