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Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer

BACKGROUND: Cancers often arise within an area of cells (e.g. an epithelial patch) that is predisposed to the development of cancer, i.e. a "field of cancerization" or "field defect." Sporadic colon cancer is characterized by an elevated mutation rate and genomic instability. If...

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Autores principales: Facista, Alexander, Nguyen, Huy, Lewis, Cristy, Prasad, Anil R, Ramsey, Lois, Zaitlin, Beryl, Nfonsam, Valentine, Krouse, Robert S, Bernstein, Harris, Payne, Claire M, Stern, Stephen, Oatman, Nicole, Banerjee, Bhaskar, Bernstein, Carol
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22494821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9414-3-3
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author Facista, Alexander
Nguyen, Huy
Lewis, Cristy
Prasad, Anil R
Ramsey, Lois
Zaitlin, Beryl
Nfonsam, Valentine
Krouse, Robert S
Bernstein, Harris
Payne, Claire M
Stern, Stephen
Oatman, Nicole
Banerjee, Bhaskar
Bernstein, Carol
author_facet Facista, Alexander
Nguyen, Huy
Lewis, Cristy
Prasad, Anil R
Ramsey, Lois
Zaitlin, Beryl
Nfonsam, Valentine
Krouse, Robert S
Bernstein, Harris
Payne, Claire M
Stern, Stephen
Oatman, Nicole
Banerjee, Bhaskar
Bernstein, Carol
author_sort Facista, Alexander
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description BACKGROUND: Cancers often arise within an area of cells (e.g. an epithelial patch) that is predisposed to the development of cancer, i.e. a "field of cancerization" or "field defect." Sporadic colon cancer is characterized by an elevated mutation rate and genomic instability. If a field defect were deficient in DNA repair, DNA damages would tend to escape repair and give rise to carcinogenic mutations. PURPOSE: To determine whether reduced expression of DNA repair proteins Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf (pairing partner of Ercc1) are early steps in progression to colon cancer. RESULTS: Tissue biopsies were taken during colonoscopies of 77 patients at 4 different risk levels for colon cancer, including 19 patients who had never had colonic neoplasia (who served as controls). In addition, 158 tissue samples were taken from tissues near or within colon cancers removed by resection and 16 tissue samples were taken near tubulovillous adenomas (TVAs) removed by resection. 568 triplicate tissue sections (a total of 1,704 tissue sections) from these tissue samples were evaluated by immunohistochemistry for 4 DNA repair proteins. Substantially reduced protein expression of Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf occurred in field defects of up to 10 cm longitudinally distant from colon cancers or TVAs and within colon cancers. Expression of another DNA repair protein, Ku86, was infrequently reduced in these areas. When Pms2, Ercc1 or Xpf were reduced in protein expression, then either one or both of the other two proteins most often had reduced protein expression as well. The mean inner colon circumferences, from 32 resections, of the ascending, transverse and descending/sigmoid areas were measured as 6.6 cm, 5.8 cm and 6.3 cm, respectively. When combined with other measurements in the literature, this indicates the approximate mean number of colonic crypts in humans is 10 million. CONCLUSIONS: The substantial deficiencies in protein expression of DNA repair proteins Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf in about 1 million crypts near cancers and TVAs suggests that the tumors arose in field defects that were deficient in DNA repair and that deficiencies in Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf are early steps, often occurring together, in progression to colon cancer.
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spelling pubmed-33510282012-05-15 Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer Facista, Alexander Nguyen, Huy Lewis, Cristy Prasad, Anil R Ramsey, Lois Zaitlin, Beryl Nfonsam, Valentine Krouse, Robert S Bernstein, Harris Payne, Claire M Stern, Stephen Oatman, Nicole Banerjee, Bhaskar Bernstein, Carol Genome Integr Research BACKGROUND: Cancers often arise within an area of cells (e.g. an epithelial patch) that is predisposed to the development of cancer, i.e. a "field of cancerization" or "field defect." Sporadic colon cancer is characterized by an elevated mutation rate and genomic instability. If a field defect were deficient in DNA repair, DNA damages would tend to escape repair and give rise to carcinogenic mutations. PURPOSE: To determine whether reduced expression of DNA repair proteins Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf (pairing partner of Ercc1) are early steps in progression to colon cancer. RESULTS: Tissue biopsies were taken during colonoscopies of 77 patients at 4 different risk levels for colon cancer, including 19 patients who had never had colonic neoplasia (who served as controls). In addition, 158 tissue samples were taken from tissues near or within colon cancers removed by resection and 16 tissue samples were taken near tubulovillous adenomas (TVAs) removed by resection. 568 triplicate tissue sections (a total of 1,704 tissue sections) from these tissue samples were evaluated by immunohistochemistry for 4 DNA repair proteins. Substantially reduced protein expression of Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf occurred in field defects of up to 10 cm longitudinally distant from colon cancers or TVAs and within colon cancers. Expression of another DNA repair protein, Ku86, was infrequently reduced in these areas. When Pms2, Ercc1 or Xpf were reduced in protein expression, then either one or both of the other two proteins most often had reduced protein expression as well. The mean inner colon circumferences, from 32 resections, of the ascending, transverse and descending/sigmoid areas were measured as 6.6 cm, 5.8 cm and 6.3 cm, respectively. When combined with other measurements in the literature, this indicates the approximate mean number of colonic crypts in humans is 10 million. CONCLUSIONS: The substantial deficiencies in protein expression of DNA repair proteins Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf in about 1 million crypts near cancers and TVAs suggests that the tumors arose in field defects that were deficient in DNA repair and that deficiencies in Pms2, Ercc1 and Xpf are early steps, often occurring together, in progression to colon cancer. BioMed Central 2012-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3351028/ /pubmed/22494821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9414-3-3 Text en Copyright ©2012 Facista et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Facista, Alexander
Nguyen, Huy
Lewis, Cristy
Prasad, Anil R
Ramsey, Lois
Zaitlin, Beryl
Nfonsam, Valentine
Krouse, Robert S
Bernstein, Harris
Payne, Claire M
Stern, Stephen
Oatman, Nicole
Banerjee, Bhaskar
Bernstein, Carol
Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
title Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
title_full Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
title_fullStr Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
title_full_unstemmed Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
title_short Deficient expression of DNA repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
title_sort deficient expression of dna repair enzymes in early progression to sporadic colon cancer
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22494821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9414-3-3
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