Deleted in colorectal cancer is a putative conditional tumor-suppressor gene inactivated by promoter hypermethylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2006 Oct 1;66(19):9401-7.

doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-1073.

Alice Chuang, Wei-Wen Jiang, Juna Lee, Shahnaz Begum, Luana Poeta, Ming Zhao, Carmen Jerónimo, Rui Henrique, Chetan S Nayak, Hannah L Park, Mariana R O Brait, Chunyan Liu, Shaoyu Zhou, Wayne Koch, Vito Michele Fazio, Edward Ratovitski, Barry Trink, William Westra, David Sidransky, Chul-so Moon, Joseph A Califano

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Deleted in colorectal cancer is a putative conditional tumor-suppressor gene inactivated by promoter hypermethylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

André Lopes Carvalho et al. Cancer Res. 2006.

Abstract

Deleted in colorectal cancer (DCC) is a candidate tumor-suppressor gene located at chromosome 18q21. However, DCC gene was found to have few somatic mutations and the heterozygous mice (DCC(+/-)) showed a similar frequency of tumor formation compared with the wild-type mice (DCC(+/+)). Recently, DCC came back to the spotlight as a better understating of its function and relationship with its ligand (netrin-1) had shown that DCC may act as a conditional tumor-suppressor gene. We evaluated hypermethylation as a mechanism for DCC inactivation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). DCC promoter region hypermethylation was found in 75% of primary HNSCC. There was a significant correlation between DCC promoter region hypermethylation and DCC expression (assessed by immunohistochemistry; P = 0.021). DCC nonexpressing HNSCC cell lines JHU-O12 and JHU-O19 with baseline hypermethylation of the DCC promoter were treated with 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (a demethylating agent) and reexpression of DCC was noted. Transfection of DCC into DCC-negative HNSCC cell lines resulted in complete abrogation of growth in all cell lines, whereas additional cotransfection of netrin-1 resulted in rescue of DCC-mediated growth inhibition. These results suggest that DCC is a putative conditional tumor-suppressor gene that is epigenetically inactivated by promoter hypermethylation in a majority of HNSCC.

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