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ArticleJournal of neuro-oncology2018

The expression of the MSC-marker CD73 and of NF2/Merlin are correlated in meningiomas.

Elmar Kirches, Tabea Steffen, Natalie Waldt, Eva Hebert, Doreen Pachow, Annette Wilisch-Neumann, Gerburg Keilhoff, Thomas Schneider, Werner E K Braunsdorf, Jan-Peter Warnke and 1 more

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Article in Journal of neuro-oncology, 2018. 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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Elmar KirchesInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Tabea SteffenInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Natalie WaldtInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Eva HebertInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Doreen PachowInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Annette Wilisch-NeumannInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Gerburg KeilhoffInstitute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Thomas SchneiderDepartment of Neurosurgery, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.
Werner E K BraunsdorfDepartment of Neurosurgery, City Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany.
Jan-Peter WarnkeDepartment of Neurosurgery, Paracelsus-Hospital Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany.
Christian MawrinInstitute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. christian.mawrin@med.ovgu.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6677-3124
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg · DEUniversity Hospital Magdeburg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been found in various cancers and were discussed to influence tumor biology. Cells fulfilling the complete MSC criteria, including surface marker expression (CD73, CD90, CD105) and tri-lineage differentiation, have been isolated solely from a low percentage of high-grade meningiomas. In contrast, pure co-expression of the surface-markers was relatively frequent, raising the question for an additional role of these membrane proteins in meningiomas. Therefore, here we analyzed the expression of CD73, CD90 and CD105 in a series of meningiomas of all grades. Although no significant association of any marker with meningeal tumor growth per se or with tumor-grade was observed, we detected a positive Pearson correlation (r = 0.55, p ≤ 0.05) in low-grade tumors between CD73 and the most relevant tumor suppressor NF2/Merlin, supported by a tendency of lower CD73 expression in cases with allelic losses at the NF2-locus, which express significantly lower NF2/Merlin-mRNA (p ≤ 0.05). In two pairs of syngenous meningeal or meningioma cell lines with or without shRNA-mediated knockdown of NF2/Merlin a nearly complete loss of CD73 mRNA expression was observed after the knockdown (p ≤ 0.001). This suggested that the correlation observed in tumors may result from a direct functional link between Merlin and CD73. Since CD73 is a 5'-exonucleotidase (termed NT5E), we discuss a potential role of NT5E-mediated purinergic signaling to modulate actin-cytoskeleton and cell contacts, which may be a functional link to NF2/Merlin.

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5'-NucleotidaseBiomarkers, TumorCell Line, TumorEndoglinGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGPI-Linked ProteinsHumansMeningeal NeoplasmsMeningiomaNeoplasm GradingNeurofibromin 2RNA, MessengerThy-1 Antigens5'-NucleotidaseBiomarkers, TumorEndoglinENG protein, humanGPI-Linked ProteinsNeurofibromin 2NT5E protein, humanRNA, MessengerThy-1 AntigensCD105CD73CD90MeningiomaNF2

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