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ArticleBMC cancer2008

Methylation alterations are not a major cause of PTTG1 misregulation.

Manuel Hidalgo, Jose Jorge Galan, Carmen Sáez, Eduardo Ferrero, Carolina Castilla, Reposo Ramirez-Lorca, Pablo Pelaez, Agustin Ruiz, Miguel A Japón, Jose Luis Royo

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Article in BMC cancer, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Manuel HidalgoService of General Surgery-B, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, 28041, Spain. mhidalgo.hdoc@salud.madrid.org
Jose Jorge Galan
Carmen Sáez
Eduardo Ferrero
Carolina Castilla
Reposo Ramirez-Lorca
Pablo Pelaez
Agustin Ruiz
Miguel A Japón
Jose Luis Royo
Hospital Universitario 12 De Octubre · ESHospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOn its physiological cellular context, PTTG1 controls sister chromatid segregation during mitosis. Within its crosstalk to the cellular arrest machinery, relies a checkpoint of integrity for which gained the over name of securin. PTTG1 was found to promote malignant transformation in 3T3 fibroblasts, and further found to be overexpressed in different tumor types. More recently, PTTG1 has been also related to different processes such as DNA repair and found to trans-activate different cellular pathways involving c-myc, bax or p53, among others. PTTG1 over-expression has been correlated to a worse prognosis in thyroid, lung, colorectal cancer patients, and it can not be excluded that this effect may also occur in other tumor types. Despite the clinical relevance and the increasing molecular characterization of PTTG1, the reason for its up-regulation remains unclear.

methodWe analysed PTTG1 differential expression in PC-3, DU-145 and LNCaP tumor cell lines, cultured in the presence of the methyl-transferase inhibitor 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine. We also tested whether the CpG island mapping PTTG1 proximal promoter evidenced a differential methylation pattern in differentiated thyroid cancer biopsies concordant to their PTTG1 immunohistochemistry status. Finally, we performed whole-genome LOH studies using Affymetix 50 K microarray technology and FRET analysis to search for allelic imbalances comprising the PTTG1 locus.

conclusionOur data suggest that neither methylation alterations nor LOH are involved in PTTG1 over-expression. These data, together with those previously reported, point towards a post-transcriptional level of misregulation associated to PTTG1 over-expression.

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DNA MethylationCarcinomaCell Culture TechniquesCell Line, TumorEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGenotypeHumansMaleNeoplasm ProteinsProstatic NeoplasmsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSecurinThyroid NeoplasmsUp-RegulationNeoplasm Proteinspituitary tumor-transforming protein 1, humanSecurin

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PMID18426563
PMCPMC2377271
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