MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC, and MUC6 in colorectal cancer: expression profiles and clinical significance

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• 作者：Johannes Betge ; Nora I. Schneider ; Lars Harbaum ; Marion J. Pollheimer…
• 关键词：Mucin ; Prognosis ; Stage II ; Immunohistochemistry ; Large intestine ; Prognostic factor
• 刊名：Virchows Archiv
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：469
• 期：3
• 页码：255-265
• 全文大小：1,696 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Pathology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-2307
• 卷排序：469

文摘

Mucin glycoprotein expression can be altered during the carcinogenic process. The impact on the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) is controversial. We analyzed tumors from 381 patients for MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC, and MUC6 expression by immunohistochemical staining, using tissue microarrays. Progression-free and cancer-specific survival were determined using the Kaplan-Meier method. Expression of intestinal mucin MUC2 was lost in 85 (23 %) CRCs, and patients with MUC6-negative tumors showed shorter progression-free survival (PFS, p = 0.043). Gastric mucins MUC5AC and MUC6 showed high (>50 %) aberrant expression in 28 (8 %) and 9 (2 %) cases, respectively. High expression of MUC5AC was associated with longer PFS (p = 0.055). High expression of MUC6 was associated with 100 % PFS (p = 0.024) and longer cancer-specific survival (CSS, p = 0.043). MUC1 was expressed in 238 (64 %) tumors and had no impact on outcome. When analysis was restricted to stages II and III, loss of MUC2 was associated with adverse outcome. Overexpression of both MUC5AC and MUC6 significantly predicted favorable PFS and CSS. In conclusion, loss of MUC2 expression proved to be a predictor of adverse outcome, while the gain of aberrant expression of MUC5AC and particularly of MUC6 was associated with favorable outcome in CRC, notably in intermediate stages II and III.