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Expression profiling of the ovarian surface kinome reveals candidate genes for early neoplastic changes

  • Tanja Pejovic
  • , Nupur T. Pande
  • , Motomi Mori
  • , Paulette Mhawech-Fauceglia
  • , Christina Harrington
  • , Solange Mongoue-Tchokote
  • , Daniel Dim
  • , Christopher Andrews
  • , Amy Beck
  • , Yukie Tarumi
  • , Jovana Djilas
  • , Fabio Cappuccini
  • , Otavia Caballero
  • , Jiaqi Huang
  • , Samuel Levy
  • , Alexia Tsiamouri
  • , Joanna Cain
  • , Grover C. Bagby
  • , Robert L. Strausberg
  • , Andrew J. Simpson
  • Kunle O. Odunsi
  • Oregon Health and Science University
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • J. Craig Venter Institute

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We tested the hypothesis that co-coordinated up-regulation or down-regulation of several ovarian cell surface kinases may provide clues for better understanding of the disease and help in rational design of therapeutic targets. STUDY DESIGN: We compared the expression signature of 69 surface kinases in normal ovarian surface epithelial cells (OSE), with OSE from patients at high risk and with ovarian cancer. RESULTS: Seven surface kinases, ALK, EPHA5, EPHB1, ERBB4, INSRR, PTK, and TGFβR1 displayed a distinctive linear trend in expression from normal, highrisk, and malignant epithelium. We confirmed these results using semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and tissue array of 202 ovarian cancer samples. A strong correlate was shown between disease-free survival and the expression of ERBB4.DNAsequencing revealed two novelmutations in ERBB4 in two cancer samples. CONCLUSIONS: A distinct subset of the ovarian surface kinome is altered in the transition from high risk to invasive cancer and genetic mutation is not a dominant mechanism for these modifications. These results have significant implications for early detection and targeted therapeutic approaches for women at high risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)341-349
Number of pages9
JournalTranslational Oncology
Volume2
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

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