Carcinogenesis, Vol 19, 1539-1544, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
RJ Guo, Y Wang, E Kaneko, DY Wang, H Arai, H Hanai, S Takenoshita, K Hagiwara, CC Harris and H Sugimura
Mutations in the transforming growth factor beta type II receptor
(TGFbetaRII) gene have been detected in several human cancer types
exhibiting microsatellite instability. Using intron primers previously
reported for examination of the entire coding region of the TGFbetaRII
gene, 29 sporadic gastric cancers were screened with non-radioactive single
strand conformation polymorphism and subsequent DNA sequencing analysis.
Mutations of the TGFbetaRII gene were detected in three out of 29 tumors
(10%). Two cases showed deletions in a polyadenine tract in both alleles
and was positively associated with replication error. One case had an
insertion of GA dinucleotide sequence in one allele. Mutations of the
TGFbetaRII gene were restricted to exon 3 and other coding regions were not
affected. Loss of heterozygosity was detected by analyzing a polymorphic
site in intron 2. Three out of nine (33%) informative cases, which were all
of intestinal type and advanced cases, showed loss of heterozygosity but
neither TGFbetaRII mutation nor replication error was found in these cases.
Immunoreactivity of TGFbetaRII in tumor tissues was reduced to a different
extent in the gastric cancer with genetically abnormal transforming growth
factor. Although the numbers studied are small, homozygous (A)10 deletion
or loss of heterozygosity of TGFbetaRII is involved in tumorigenesis and
progression of at least some part of sporadic gastric cancer.
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Analyses of mutation and loss of heterozygosity of coding sequences of the entire transforming growth factor beta type II receptor gene in sporadic human gastric cancer
First Department of Pathology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
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