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- Title
Loss of tumor suppressor menin expression in high grade cholangiocarcinomas.
- Authors
Lairmore, Terry C.; Abdulsattar, Jehan; De Benedetti, Arrigo; Shi, Runhua; Huang, Shile; Khalil, Md Imtiaz; Witt, Stephan N.
- Abstract
Background: MEN1, which codes for the protein menin, is a tumor suppressor in neuroendocrine tissue. In cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) cell lines the overexpression of menin decreased proliferation, angiogenesis, migration, and invasion in vitro and in xenografts, but its expression in CCA tumor tissue samples is not established. Objective: Determine whether the expression of menin correlates with disease progression in patient samples of CCA in a tissue microarray (TMA) by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining. Results: IHC analysis of 97 biopsies revealed that low-grade tumors (Grade I) exhibited intense, diffuse, finely granular nuclear menin immunoreactivity with a pronounced linear perinuclear pattern (mean IHC score = 2.00), whereas high-grade tumors (Grade III) mostly lacked such staining (mean IHC score = 0.35). Collectively, there was a significant inverse association between tumor grade and menin staining (P = 0.0005). We also found a significant association between fibrosis status and menin staining, in that, 81.2% (56/69) of patients without fibrosis had no menin staining, whereas 92.9% (26/28) patients with fibrosis exhibited menin staining (P < 0.0001). No association was found between fibrosis status and grade. Overall, menin expression is inversely associated with tumor grade and positively associated with fibrosis status.
- Subjects
TUMOR grading; TUMORS; CELL lines; DISEASE progression; FIBROSIS
- Publication
BMC Research Notes, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1756-0500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13104-023-06282-6