Oral cancer is now the fourth leading cause of male cancer mortality in Taiwan. Betel quid chewing is one of the main causes of oral cancer in Taiwan. CDK2AP1 is a growth suppressor gene that negatively regulates cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) activities. Expression of p12CDK2AP1 protein is reduced and/or lost in oral cancers. Mutations in microsatellite-like sequence of CDK2AP1 gene in microsatellite instability colorectal cancer are associated with down-regulated CDK2AP1 transcription. This mutation was due to down-regulation of one DNA repair protein, MLH1. In order to understand whether CDK2AP1 mRNA and protein expression levels associate with betel-chewing oral cancers, we firstly analyzed 44 oral cancer specimens (normal and tumor, in pairs) by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting. Immunohistochemistry was used to examine p12CDK2AP1 protein expression in another 167 buccal mucosa squamous cell carcinoma tissues. We have demonstrated that the expression levels of CDK2AP1 mRNAs were slightly higher in normal oral tissues than those in tumor tissues (P>0.05). Similarly, p12CDK2AP1 and CDK2 protein expression levels were up-regulated in oral cancer tissues than in normal tissues by Western blot analysis (P<0.05). Among Ca9-22, CAL27, SAS and in betel-chewing oral cancer cells TW2.6 and human normal skin keratinolial cells (HaCaT) that we examined, p12CDK2AP1 and CDK2 proteins were detected to be highest expressed in Ca9-22 and TW2.6 cells, respectively, when compared to HaCaT cells. Immunocytochemistry indicated p12CDK2AP1 expressed in nucleus and cytoplasm in Ca9-22, CAL27, SAS and HaCaT cells, however predominant present in nucleus in TW2.6 cells. On the other hand, immunohistochemistry demonstrated that nuclear (P=0.157) and cytoplasmic p12CDK2AP1 (P=0.350) in 167 patients with buccal mucosa squamous cell carcinoma were slightly down-regulated. Reduction of nuclear p12CDK2AP1 was not significantly correlated with any clinicopathologic characteristics or prognosis. Direct sequencing indicated that lack of microsatellite-like instability of CDK2AP1 3¡¦-UTR in four oral cancer cell lines, HaCaT and six patients with down-regulated MLH1 protein. In conclusion, we demonstrated that: (1) p12CDK2AP1 was located in both the nucleus and cytoplasm in most oral cancer cell lines and HaCaT cells but predominate present in the nucleus in betel-chewing oral cancer cells, TW2.6; (2) Reduction of nuclear p12CDK2AP1 in buccal mucosa squamous cell carcinoma tissues were identified, however, not significantly correlated with any clinicopathologic characteristics, prognosis or betel chewing; (3) In six patients with down-regulated MLH1, lack of micorsatellite-like instability in the CDK2AP1 3¡¦-UTR region has been found.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0109107-150512 |
| Date | 09 January 2007 |
| Creators | Huang, Chih-hua |
| Contributors | Luo-ping Ger, Yow-ling Shiue, Wen-chun Hung, Pei-jung Lu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0109107-150512 |
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