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      Epigenetic Downregulation and Growth Inhibition of IGFBP7 in Gastric Cancer

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          Abstract

          Background:

          Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 (IGFBP7) has been found to be a tumor suppressor in several human cancers, but the role of IGFBP7 in gastric cancer has not yet been fully investigated. Herein, we examined the epigenetic downregulation of IGFBP7 expression in gastric cancer.

          Methods:

          Expression and methylation of IGFBP7 in gastric cancer cells and primary gastric cancer patients were determined using qRT-PCR, western blot, immunohistochemistry, and methylation specific-PCR, respectively. The effects of IGFBP7 on gastric cancer cells were investigated by various experimental conditions, such as proliferation, colony formation, apoptosis, invasion, and migration assay.

          Results:

          IGFBP7 methylation was inversely correlated with IGFBP7 expression in gastric cancer. Univariate and multivariate analysis showed that IGFBP7 expression and tumor stage were independent prognostic factors. IGFBP7 knockdown increased gastric cancer cell growth, invasion, and migration, whereas IGFBP7 overexpression in gastric cancer cells induced cell growth inhibition and apoptosis.

          Conclusion:

          Our data suggest that IGFBP7 functions as a tumor suppressor in gastric cancer via an epigenetic pathway.

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          The insulin and insulin-like growth factor receptor family in neoplasia: an update.

          Although several early phase clinical trials raised enthusiasm for the use of insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF1R)-specific antibodies for cancer treatment, initial Phase III results in unselected patients have been disappointing. Further clinical studies may benefit from the use of predictive biomarkers to identify probable responders, the use of rational combination therapies and the consideration of alternative targeting strategies, such as ligand-specific antibodies and receptor-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Targeting insulin and IGF signalling also needs to be considered in the broader context of the pathophysiology that relates obesity and diabetes to neoplasia, and the effects of anti-diabetic drugs, including metformin, on cancer risk and prognosis. The insulin and IGFI receptor family is also relevant to the development of PI3K-AKT pathway inhibitors.
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            The effects of insulin-like growth factors on tumorigenesis and neoplastic growth.

            Several decades of basic and clinical research have demonstrated that there is an association between the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and neoplasia. We begin with a brief discussion of the function and regulation of expression of the IGFs, their receptors and the IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs). A number of investigational interventional strategies targeting the GH or IGFs are then reviewed. Finally, we have assembled the available scientific knowledge about this relationship for each of the major tumor types. The tumors have been grouped together by organ system and for each of the major tumors, various key elements of the relationship between IGFs and tumor growth are discussed. Specifically these include the presence or absence of autocrine IGF-I and IGF-II production; presence or absence of IGF-I and IGF-II receptor expression; the expression and functions of the IGFBPs; in vitro and in vivo experiments involving therapeutic interventions; and available results from clinical trials evaluating the effect of GH/IGF axis down-regulation in various malignancies.
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              Detection in fecal DNA of colon cancer-specific methylation of the nonexpressed vimentin gene.

              Increased DNA methylation is an epigenetic alteration that is common in human cancers and is often associated with transcriptional silencing. Aberrantly methylated DNA has also been proposed as a potential tumor marker. However, genes such as vimentin, which are transcriptionally silent in normal epithelium, have not until now been considered as targets for cancer-associated aberrant methylation and for use as cancer markers. We applied methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction to the vimentin gene, which is transcriptionally silent in normal colonocytes, and compared methylation of vimentin exon 1 in cancer tissues and in fecal DNA from colon cancer patients versus control samples from healthy subjects. Vimentin exon-1 sequences were unmethylated in 45 of 46 normal colon tissues. In contrast, vimentin exon-1 sequences were methylated in 83% (38 of 46) and 53% (57 of 107) of tumors from two independently collected groups of colon cancer patients. When evaluated as a marker for colon cancer detection in fecal DNA from another set of colon cancer patients, aberrant vimentin methylation was detected in fecal DNA from 43 of 94 patients, for a sensitivity of 46% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 35% to 56%). The sensitivity for detecting stage I and II cancers was 43% (26 of 60 case patients) (95% CI = 31% to 57%). Only 10% (20 of 198 case patients) of control fecal DNA samples from cancer-free individuals tested positive for vimentin methylation, for a specificity of 90% (95% CI = 85% to 94%). Aberrant methylation of exon-1 sequences within the nontranscribed vimentin gene is a novel molecular biomarker of colon cancer and can be successfully detected in fecal DNA to identify nearly half of individuals with colon cancer.
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                Journal
                Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
                Asian Pac. J. Cancer Prev
                Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention : APJCP
                West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (Iran )
                1513-7368
                2476-762X
                2018
                : 19
                : 3
                : 667-675
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
                [2 ] Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
                [3 ] Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
                Author notes
                [* ] For Correspondence: everest@ 123456snu.ac.kr
                Article
                APJCP-19-667
                10.22034/APJCP.2018.19.3.667
                5980839
                29580038
                c550e7de-3ecb-4556-ac58-f82dc46e14f8
                Copyright: © Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

                History
                : 28 April 2017
                : 19 January 2018
                Categories
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                igfbp7,gastric cancer,tumor suppressor,downregulation,methylation

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