This retrospective observational study examined lung cancer tumor samples from 163 H/L patients, and tumor-derived DNA was subjected to targeted-exome sequencing (>1000 genes, including EGFR, KRAS, serine/threonine kinase 11 gene [STK11], and tumor protein p53 gene [TP53]) and ancestry analysis.
Given the roles of bcl-2, bax and p53 in apoptosis, we investigated the effect of their expression on the response to cisplatin in order to understand the molecular events of cisplatin-resistance in lung cancers.
The overall pooled ORs showed no significant relationship of the p53 codon 72 polymorphism with increased or decreased risk of lung cancer in all gene contrast models (OR Pro vs. Arg = 1.04, 95 % CI = 0.96-1.13, P OR < 0.001; OR Pro/Pro vs. Arg/Arg = 1.07, 95 % CI = 0.91-1.25, P OR < 0.001; OR Arg/Pro vs. Arg/Arg =1.04, 95 % CI = 0.94-1.15, P OR < 0.001; OR Pro/Pro + Arg/Pro vs. Arg/Arg = 1.04, 95 % CI = 0.94-1.16, P OR < 0.001; OR Pro/Pro vs. Arg/Arg + Arg/Pro = 1.07, 95 % CI = 0.93-1.23, P OR < 0.001).
Our results suggest that combination of rpL3 and 5-FU is a promising strategy for chemotherapy of lung cancers lacking functional p53 that are resistant to 5-FU.
Frequent allelic deletion at the FHIT locus associated with p53 overexpression in squamous cell carcinoma subtype of Taiwanese non-small-cell lung cancers.
Overall, we did not observe any variant homozygotes in this study population, nor significant associations between the TP53 rs78378222AC genotype or C allele and risk for melanoma (P = 0.680 and 0.682 respectively) and lung cancer (P = 0.379 and 0.382 respectively), but a protection against SCCHN (P = 0.008 and 0.008 respectively), compared with the AA genotype or A allele.
The present study examines the ethnic differences in the type and frequency of MET proto-oncogene (MET) mutation in lung cancer and correlated them with other frequently mutated genes such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), KRAS2, and TP53.
After adjusting gender and tumor type, the major contributors to p53 degradation in lung cancer patients were determined to be p53 codon72 polymorphism and HPV 16/18 E6 oncoprotein expression.
In lung adenocarcinoma cells from Kras/Tp53-mutant animals and human lung cancer cell lines, ZEB1 activated PI3K by derepressing miR-200 targets, including amphiregulin (AREG), betacellulin (BTC), and the transcription factor GATA6, which stimulated an EGFR/ERBB2 autocrine loop.
When we analyzed the HLA subtype of lung cancer cell lines with known p53 missense mutations, we found that all of the mutant oncopeptides predicted to be presentable by HLA A*0201 came from tumors that either did not carry the A*0201 allele or had lost that allele in the process of tumorigenesis.
The p14ARF transcript, which is an alternative spliced form of this locus, is also altered or deleted in a proportion of human lung cancers and has been shown to inhibit cell cycle progression as an endogenous cellular regulator of the p53 protein, raising the possibility that it might constitute an additional lung tumor suppressor gene at the 9p21 locus.
The mutation frequency (46%) of the p53 gene in tumors carrying mutated ras genes was essentially the same as the overall frequency in lung cancers, suggesting that accumulation of mutations in these two genes in a tumor is a random phenomenon.
Our data show that Ad338 replicates poorly in three lung cancer cell lines with various p53 mutations (H441, H446, and Calu1), yet this virus replicates to a high level in a lung cancer cell line with wild-type p53 (A549) and in a normal lung fibroblast line (IMR90).
Taken together, more than half (55% and 56% for lung cancer and bladder cancer, respectively) of the patients who continued smoking (CS), less than 40% (38% and 38%) of those who had stopped smoking before > or = 1 or > or = 5 years) clinical diagnosis (ES), and less than 30% (25% and 29%) of those who were nonsmokers (NS) had a p53 mutation.
In this study, using both novel and established technologies, we developed a clinically practical assay to survey the status of three frequently mutated genes in lung cancer (EGFR, K-ras and TP53) and two genes (BRAF and β-catenin) with known hotspot mutations in many other cancers.
In addition, in a murine xenograft model of human lung cancer A549, treatment with AC17 suppresses tumor growth in a manner associated with proteasome inhibition, NF-κB blockage, and p53 reactivation.