Neoplastic progression occurs through mutator pathways in hyperplastic polyposis of the colorectum (original) (raw)
Neoplastic progression occurs through mutator pathways in hyperplastic polyposis of the colorectum
- J R Jassa,
- H Iinoa,f,
- A Ruszkiewiczb,
- D Painterc,
- M J Solomonc,
- D J Kooreyc,
- D Cohnd,
- K L Furlonga,
- M D Walsha,
- J Palazzog,
- T Bocker Edmonstong,
- R Fishelg,
- J Younge,
- B A Leggette
- aDepartment of Pathology, University of Queensland, Australia, bInstitute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia, cRoyal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia, dQueensland Medical Laboratory, Queensland, Australia, eConjoint Gastroenterology Laboratory, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia, fFirst Department of Surgery, Yamanishi Medical University, Japan, gKimmel Cancer Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
- Professor J R Jass, Department of Pathology, University of Queensland Mayne Medical School, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia. Email: j.jass{at}mailbox.uq.edu.au
Abstract
AIM Colorectal cancer has been described in association with hyperplastic polyposis but the mechanism underlying this observation is unknown. The aim of this study was to characterise foci of dysplasia developing in the polyps of subjects with hyperplastic polyposis on the basis of DNA microsatellite status and expression of the DNA mismatch repair proteins hMLH1, hMSH2, and hMSH6.
MATERIALS AND METHODS The material was derived from four patients with hyperplastic polyposis and between one and six synchronous colorectal cancers. Normal (four), hyperplastic (13), dysplastic (13), and malignant (11) samples were microdissected and a PCR based approach was used to identify mutations at 10 microsatellite loci, TGFβIIR, IGF2R, BAX, MSH3, and MSH6. Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) was diagnosed when 40% or more of the microsatellite loci showed mutational bandshifts. Serial sections were stained for hMLH1, hMSH2, and hMSH6.
RESULTS DNA microsatellite instability was found in 1/13 (8%) hyperplastic samples, in 7/13 (54%) dysplastic foci, and in 8/11 (73%) cancers. None of the MSI-low (MSI-L) samples (one hyperplastic, three dysplastic, two cancers) showed loss of hMLH1 expression. All four MSI-H dysplastic foci and six MSI-H cancers showed loss of hMLH1 expression. Loss of hMLH1 in MSI-H but not in MSI-L lesions showing dysplasia or cancer was significant (p< 0.001, Fisher_'_s exact test). Loss of hMSH6 occurred in one MSI-H cancer and one MSS focus of dysplasia which also showed loss of hMLH1 staining.
CONCLUSION Neoplastic changes in hyperplastic polyposis may occur within a hyperplastic polyp. Neoplasia may be driven by DNA instability that is present to a low (MSI-L) or high (MSI-H) degree. MSI-H but not MSI-L dysplastic foci are associated with loss of hMLH1 expression. At least two mutator pathways drive neoplasia in hyperplastic polyposis. The role of the hyperplastic polyp in the histogenesis of sporadic DNA microsatellite unstable colorectal cancer should be examined.
colon
hyperplastic polyposis
DNA mismatch repair
microsatellite instability
Abbreviations used in this paper
MSI-H
MSI-L, microsatellite instability-high, -low
MSS
microsatellite stable
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