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Identification of Stage-Specific Breast Markers using Quantitative Proteomics

Yes / Matched healthy and diseased tissues from breast cancer patients were analyzed by quantitative proteomics. By comparing proteomic profiles of fibroadenoma (benign tumors, three patients), DCIS (noninvasive cancer, three patients), and invasive ductal carcinoma (four patients), we identified protein alterations that correlated with breast cancer progression. Three 8-plex iTRAQ experiments generated an average of 826 protein identifications, of which 402 were common. After excluding those originating from blood, 59 proteins were significantly changed in tumor compared with normal tissues, with the majority associated with invasive carcinomas. Bioinformatics analysis identified relationships
between proteins in this subset including roles in redox regulation, lipid transport, protein folding, and proteasomal degradation, with a substantial number increased in expression due to Myc oncogene activation. Three target proteins, cofilin-1 and p23 (increased in invasive carcinoma) and membrane copper amine oxidase 3 (decreased in invasive carcinoma), were subjected to further validation. All three were observed in phenotype-specific breast cancer cell lines, normal (nontransformed) breast cell lines, and primary breast epithelial cells by Western blotting, but only cofilin-1 and p23 were detected by multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry analysis. All three proteins were detected by both analytical approaches in matched tissue biopsies emulating the response observed with proteomics analysis. Tissue microarray analysis (361 patients) indicated cofilin-1 staining positively correlating with tumor grade and p23 staining with ER positive status; both therefore merit further investigation as potential biomarkers. / Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Yorkshire Cancer Research

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/9889
Date09 October 2013
CreatorsShaheed, Sadr-ul, Rustogi, Nitin, Scally, Andy J., Wilson, J., Thygesen, H., Loizidou, M.A., Hadjisavvas, A., Hanby, A., Speirs, V., Loadman, Paul, Linforth, R., Kyriacou, K., Sutton, Chris W.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish, English
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, Accepted manuscript
Rights� 2013 American Chemical Society. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy., Unspecified, Unspecified

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