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Elhendawy HA. Clinical implications of heat shock protein 70 in oral carcinogenesis and prediction of progression and recurrence in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients: a retrospective clinicopathological study. Eur J Med Res 2023; 28:464. [PMID: 37884988 PMCID: PMC10604814 DOI: 10.1186/s40001-023-01433-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Oral cancer is a common cause of death worldwide. The search for novel biomarkers for oral cancer is an ongoing struggle. Prognostic biomarkers are of great importance in diagnosis, and prediction of the cancer outcome. There are several disagreements in oral cancer studies over the role of heat shock proteins as prognostic markers. The current study investigated HSP70 expression in diverse tissues ranging from normal oral mucosa to dysplastic oral epithelium and oral squamous cell carcinoma to determine its role in oral carcinogenesis. Moreover, HSP70 was evaluated concerning different prognostic parameters to determine its capability in predicting cancer progression. Recurrence of tumor was recorded, and patients` disease-free survival was calculated and analyzed considering HSP70 expression to determine the potential utility of HSP70 immuno-expression in predicting recurrence. METHODS A retrospective study was accomplished on 50 cases of OSCC. Biopsies from the cancerous tissue, the free surgical margin, and the normal oral mucosa were used. The grading of dysplastic epithelium and OSCCs followed the criteria of WHO classification (2017). The clinicopathological and follow-up records for each patient were retrieved. Pearson's Chi-square test, one-way ANOVA, and post hoc tests were used to analyze the variance of HSP70 immuno-expression concerning different parameters. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to compute and visualize disease-free survival, and the log-rank test was used to analyze the data. With Cox regression, univariate and multivariate survival analyses were run. A P-value of 0.05 or less was regarded as statistically significant. RESULTS A significant increased expression of HSP70 was observed as the tissue progressed from normal to dysplastic epithelium, and carcinoma (P = 0.000). HSP70 revealed a significant increased expression by progression from mild to severe dysplasia (P = 0.023), and also from well to moderately and poorly differentiated carcinoma (P = 0.000). High HSP70 immuno-expression was significantly associated with progression of OSCC; large-sized tumors (P = 0.002), advanced TNM clinical stages (P = 0.001), positive nodal involvement (P = 0.001), presence of recurrence (P = .008), and reduced DFS (P = 0.014). CONCLUSION HSP70 has a crucial contribution to oral carcinogenesis, and its immune-expression could potentially be used as predictor of progression and recurrence of OSCC patients. TRIAL REGISTRATION Retrospectively registered.
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Adel M, Elmasry A, El-Nablaway M, Othman G, Hamed S, Khater Y, Ashour RH, Hendawy M, Rabei MR. Cardioprotective effect of abscisic acid in a rat model of type 3 cardio-renal syndrome: Role of NOX-4, P-53, and HSP-70. Biomed Pharmacother 2023; 157:114038. [PMID: 36446241 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.114038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) is a complex heart and kidney pathophysiologic disorder that leads to a bidirectional interrelationship between them. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that is present in plants, and is known to regulate fundamental physiological functions. This study aimed to explore the efficacy of ABA in surgically induced-CRS type 3 rats. Rats were randomly and equally divided into four groups. Rats in Group 1 received saline (Sham group), Group 2 included control induced-CRS rats, Group 3 rats (CRS+ABA) included CRS rats treated with ABA and Group 4 (CRS + ABA + Verapamil + propofol) were CRS rats treated with Verapamil, propofol and ABA. The rats were treated with the drugs daily for four weeks. At the end of the study, relative heart weight corrected QT interval (QTc), mean blood pressure (MBP), kidney functions, oxidative stress, NADPH oxidase 4 (NOX4), protein 53 (P53), and heat shock proteins-70 (HSP-70) expression was assessed and recorded. ABA led to a significant shortening of the ventricular action potential duration indicated by QTc. Furthermore, it significantly lowered heart weight, MBP, serum creatinine, NOX-4, and P-53 expression and augmented HSP-70 expression. In contrast, adding calcium channel blockers (CCBs) to ABA mitigated this effect. The results suggested that ABA has a potential protective role in CRS-induced cardiac hypertrophy and arrhythmia that could be mediated through inhibition of P-53, NOX-4, and an increase in HSP-70 expression.
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- Mohamed Adel
- Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt; Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, AlMaarefa University, PO Box 71666, Riyadh 11597, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, AlMaarefa University, PO Box 71666, Riyadh 11597, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt
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- Medical Experimental Research Center (MERC), Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt; Pharmacology & Toxicology Department, Faculty of Medicine at Al-Qunfudah, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt; Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, King Salman International University, South Sinai, Egypt
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Mittal S, Rajala MS. Heat shock proteins as biomarkers of lung cancer. Cancer Biol Ther 2020; 21:477-485. [PMID: 32228356 PMCID: PMC7515496 DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2020.1736482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Heat shock proteins are known to be associated with a wide variety of human cancers including lung cancer. Overexpression of these molecular chaperones is linked with tumor survival, metastasis and anticancer drug resistance. In recent years, heat shock proteins are gaining much importance in the field of cancer research owing to their potential to be key determinants of cell survival and apoptosis. Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed worldwide and the association of heat shock proteins in lung cancer diagnosis, prognosis and as drug targets remains unresolved. The aim of this review is to draw the importance of heat shock protein members; Hsp27, Hsp70, Hsp90, Hsp60 and their diagnostic and prognostic implications in lung cancer. Based on the available literature heat shock proteins can serve as biomarkers and anticancer drug targets in the management of lung cancer patients.
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- Sonam Mittal
- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Effect of dietary lead on intestinal nutrient transporters mRNA expression in broiler chickens. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 2015:149745. [PMID: 25695048 PMCID: PMC4324109 DOI: 10.1155/2015/149745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Revised: 11/13/2014] [Accepted: 11/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Lead- (Pb-) induced oxidative stress is known to suppress growth performance and feed efficiency in broiler chickens. In an attempt to describe the specific underlying mechanisms of such phenomenon we carried out the current study. Ninety-six one-day-old broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 2 dietary treatment groups of 6 pen replicates, namely, (i) basal diet containing no lead supplement (control) and (ii) basal diet containing 200 mg lead acetate/kg of diet. Following 3 weeks of experimental period, jejunum samples were collected to examine the changes in gene expression of several nutrient transporters, antioxidant enzymes, and heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) using quantitative real-time PCR. The results showed that addition of lead significantly decreased feed intake, body weight gain, and feed efficiency. Moreover, with the exception of GLUT5, the expression of all sugar, peptide, and amino acid transporters was significantly downregulated in the birds under Pb induced oxidative stress. Exposure to Pb also upregulated the antioxidant enzymes gene expression together with the downregulation of glutathione S-transferase and Hsp70. In conclusion, it appears that Pb-induced oxidative stress adversely suppresses feed efficiency and growth performance in chicken and the possible underlying mechanism for such phenomenon is downregulation of major nutrient transporter genes in small intestine.
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Werynska B, Pula B, Muszczynska-Bernhard B, Gomulkiewicz A, Piotrowska A, Prus R, Podhorska-Okolow M, Jankowska R, Dziegiel P. Metallothionein 1F and 2A overexpression predicts poor outcome of non-small cell lung cancer patients. Exp Mol Pathol 2012; 94:301-8. [PMID: 23064051 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2012.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2012] [Revised: 10/02/2012] [Accepted: 10/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Metallothioneins (MT) are intracellular, low molecular weight proteins (6-7 kDa) involved in binding of metal ions, scavenging of free radicals, cell proliferation and apoptosis and resistance to certain chemotherapeutics. Four basic families of MT proteins are distinguished: MT-I, MT-II, MT-III, MT-IV, within each of them different isoforms occur. The study aimed at examining the expression level of nine MT isoforms: MT-1A, -1B, -1E, -1F, -1G, -1H, -1X, MT-2A and MT-IV by using real-time PCR and MT-I/II expression by immunohistochemical (IHC) technique in 69 cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and 12 non-malignant lung tissues (NMLT) and to correlate them with patients clinicopathological data and Ki-67 antigen expression. Out of all the analyzed cases, 62 (89.9%) demonstrated an increased MT-I/II expression. MT-1B, 1F, -1G, -1H and MT-1X were significantly up-regulated, whereas MT-1E was significantly down-regulated in NSCLC as compared to NMLT. Only in two cases MT-IV mRNA expression was noted. Significant positive correlations were observed between each particular MT isoform expressions. Higher MT-1F and MT-1A mRNA expression was associated with larger primary tumor size (P=0.0362 and P<0.0001, respectively). Moreover, up-regulated MT-1F mRNA expression was associated with higher grade of malignancy of NSCLC (P=0.0085). Higher MT-1B mRNA expression was associated with squamocellular and adenocarcinoma subtype of NSCLC (P=0.0358). Univariate analysis showed, that up-regulated MT-1F and MT-2A mRNA predicted poor patients' survival (P=0.0206 and P=0.0097, respectively). The levels of MT-1F and MT-2A mRNA could be considered as new markers of poor prognosis of NSCLC patients.
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- Bozena Werynska
- Department of Pulmonology and Pulmonary Tumours, Medical University in Wroclaw, Poland
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Zimmermann M, Nickl S, Lambers C, Hacker S, Mitterbauer A, Hoetzenecker K, Rozsas A, Ostoros G, Laszlo V, Hofbauer H, Renyi-Vamos F, Klepetko W, Dome B, Ankersmit HJ. Discrimination of clinical stages in non-small cell lung cancer patients by serum HSP27 and HSP70: a multi-institutional case-control study. Clin Chim Acta 2012; 413:1115-20. [PMID: 22465083 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2012.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2012] [Revised: 03/09/2012] [Accepted: 03/09/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Lung cancer represents a major healthcare problem. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to identify serum biomarkers for early diagnosis of lung pathology. We have recently described that patients with manifest COPD evidence elevated levels of heat shock proteins (HSPs). Based on these data, we speculated whether HSPs are also increased in patients with diagnosed lung cancer. METHODS Serum levels of HSP27, phospho-HSP27 (pHSP27) and HSP70 in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) diagnosed at an early (stages I-II, n=37) or advanced (stages IIIA-IV, n=72) stage were determined by using ELISA. Healthy smokers (n=24), healthy never-smoker volunteers (n=33) and COPD patients (n=34) according to GOLD classification served as control population. RESULTS Serum levels of HSP27 were elevated in patients with NSCLC diagnosed at an early or advanced stage when compared with both healthy control groups (P<0.005 and P<0.0001 respectively). Statistically significant differences were furthermore found between the groups of patients with early vs. advanced stage NSCLC (P=0.0021). Serum levels of HSP70 were also significantly elevated in patients with NSCLC diagnosed at an early or at an advanced stage when compared with either healthy control groups (P=0.0028 and P<0.0001 respectively). In univariate logistic regression models including healthy subjects and patients with NSCLC, HSP70 had an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.779 (P<0.0001) and HSP27 showed an AUC of 0.870 (P<0.0001). CONCLUSION Our data suggest that serum HSP27 levels might serve as a possible tool to discriminate between early and advanced stages NSCLC.
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- Matthias Zimmermann
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cardiac and Thoracic Diagnosis and Regeneration, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Zanini C, Giribaldi G, Mandili G, Carta F, Crescenzio N, Bisaro B, Doria A, Foglia L, di Montezemolo LC, Timeus F, Turrini F. Inhibition of heat shock proteins (HSP) expression by quercetin and differential doxorubicin sensitization in neuroblastoma and Ewing's sarcoma cell lines. J Neurochem 2007; 103:1344-54. [PMID: 17680992 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04835.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Neuroblastoma (NB) and Ewing's sarcoma (ES) represent the most common extracranial solid tumors of childhood. Heat shock proteins (HSP) are elevated in cancer cells and their over-expression was correlated to drug-resistance. In this work we identified the HSP by a sensitive proteomic analysis of NB and ES cell lines, then, we studied the HSP response to doxorubicin. Some identified HSP were constitutively more expressed in NB than in ES cells. Doxorubicin-stimulated HSP response only in NB cells. Quercetin was found to inhibit HSP expression depleting heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) cellular stores. Quercetin caused a higher anti-proliferative effect in NB (IC(50): 6.9 +/- 5.8 mumol/L) than in ES cells (IC(50): 85.5 +/- 53.1 mumol/L). Moreover, quercetin caused a very pronounced doxorubicin sensitizing effect in NB cells (241 fold IC(50) decrease) and a moderate effect in ES cells. HSP involvement in NB cells sensitization was confirmed by the silencing of HSF1. Quercetin treatment and HSF1 silencing increased the pro-apoptotic effect of doxorubicin. In conclusion, the higher HSP levels, observed in NB cells, did not confer increased resistance to doxorubicin; on the contrary, HSP inhibition by quercetin or gene silencing caused higher sensitization to doxorubicin. These results may have a potential application in the treatment of NB.
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- Cristina Zanini
- Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
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Nadkar A, Pungaliya C, Drake K, Zajac E, Singhal SS, Awasthi S. Therapeutic resistance in lung cancer. Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol 2006; 2:753-77. [PMID: 17014393 DOI: 10.1517/17425255.2.5.753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Despite considerable progress over the last 25 years in the systemic therapy of lung cancer, intrinsic and acquired resistance to chemotherapeutic agents and radiation remains a vexing problem. The number of mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in lung cancer has expanded considerably over the past three decades, and the crucial role of stress resistance pathways is increasingly recognised as a cause of intrinsic and acquired chemo- and radiotherapy resistance. This paper reviews recent evidence for stress defence proteins, particularly RALBP1/RLIP76, in mediating intrinsic and acquired chemotherapy and radiation resistance in human lung cancer.
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- Aalok Nadkar
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, 700 Planetarium Place, CPB # 351, 76019-0065, USA.
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Malusecka E, Zborek A, Krzyzowska-Gruca S, Krawczyk Z. Immunohistochemical detection of the inducible heat shock protein hsp70: a methodological study. J Histochem Cytochem 2005; 54:183-90. [PMID: 16204226 DOI: 10.1369/jhc.5a6748.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Stress-inducible Hsp70i and constitutively expressed Hsc70 are highly related heat shock proteins. Aberrant expression levels and intracellular localization of these proteins has been suggested as a potential marker in certain tumors. The aim of our study was to work out a reliable, immunohistochemical detection of the stress-inducible Hsp70i protein and enabling discrimination between Hsp70i and Hsc70 proteins in paraffin-embedded human tissues. We tested the effect of several fixative procedures and antigen retrieval on the effectiveness of the Hsp70i detection in murine cells cultured in vitro and in liver of rats subjected to heat shock. For cells grown in vitro, specific Hsp70i immunoreactivity was obtained with all fixatives used. However, samples fixed in 10% formalin and 4% paraformaldehyde required antigen retrieval. In liver tissue embedded in paraffin, regardless the fixative used, positive Hsp70i staining could be visible only if antigen retrieval was applied. We applied this procedure for detection of Hsp70i in routine sections of breast and lung cancers fixed with 10% formalin and found that the application of thermal antigen retrieval significantly enhanced the SPA810 immunoreactivity and reduced background staining. This procedure enabled also the differential detection of Hsp70i and Hsc70 in routine histopathological preparations.
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- Ewa Malusecka
- Department of Tumor Biology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch Wybrzeze Armii Krajowej, 15 44-101 Gliwice, Poland.
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Protein-damaging stresses induce the expression of 'heat-shock proteins', which have essential roles in protecting cells from the potentially lethal effects of stress and proteotoxicity. These stress-protective heat-shock proteins are often overexpressed in cells of various cancers and have been suggested to be contributing factors in tumorigenesis. An underlying basis of oncogenesis is the acquisition and accumulation of mutations that provide the transformed cell with the combined characteristics of deregulated cell proliferation and suppressed cell death. Heat-shock proteins with dual roles as regulators of protein conformation and stress sensors may therefore have intriguing and central roles in both cell proliferation and apoptosis. It has been established that heat-shock proteins exhibit specificity to particular classes of polypeptide substrates and client proteins in vivo, and that chaperones can stabilize mutations that affect the folded conformation. Likewise, overexpression of chaperones has also been shown to protect cells against apoptotic cell death. The involvement of chaperones, therefore, in such diverse roles might suggest novel anticancer therapeutic approaches targeting heat-shock protein function for a broad spectrum of tumor types.
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- Dick D Mosser
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1.
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Faure O, Graff-Dubois S, Bretaudeau L, Derré L, Gross DA, Alves PMS, Cornet S, Duffour MT, Chouaib S, Miconnet I, Grégoire M, Jotereau F, Lemonnier FA, Abastado JP, Kosmatopoulos K. Inducible Hsp70 as target of anticancer immunotherapy: Identification of HLA-A*0201-restricted epitopes. Int J Cancer 2004; 108:863-70. [PMID: 14712489 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.11653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The design of a broad application tumor vaccine requires the identification of tumor antigens expressed in a majority of tumors of various origins. We questioned whether the major stress-inducible heat shock protein Hsp70 (also known as Hsp72), a protein frequently overexpressed in human tumors of various histological origins, but not in most physiological normal tissues, constitutes a tumor antigen. We selected the p391 and p393 peptides from the sequence of the human inducible Hsp70 that had a high affinity for HLA-A*0201. These peptides were able to trigger a CTL response in vivo in HLA-A*0201-transgenic HHD mice and in vitro in HLA-A*0201+ healthy donors. p391- and p393-specific human and murine CTL recognized human tumor cells overexpressing Hsp70 in a HLA-A*0201-restricted manner. Tetramer analysis of TILs showed that these Hsp70 epitopes are targets of an immune response in many HLA-A*0201+ breast cancer patients. Hsp70 is a tumor antigen and the Hsp70-derived peptides p391 and p393 could be used to raise a cytotoxic response against tumors of various origins.
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- Olivier Faure
- INSERM U487, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
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Michils A, Dutry D, de Beyl VZ, Remmelink M, de Maertelaer V, Rocmans P. Peripheral blood mononuclear cell proliferation to heat shock protein-70 derived from autologous lung carcinoma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 166:749-53. [PMID: 12204876 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200202-126oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In animals, tumor-derived heat shock proteins (HSP) induce immune-mediated protection against autologous cancer. We investigated whether HSP-70 derived from human lung carcinoma are also complexed to tumor-specific antigens. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells collected 10 days after surgery from patients with lung cancer were stimulated with HSP-70 purified from autologous and heterologous tumors. The stimulation index (SI) obtained when stimulating cells with autologous tumor-derived HSP-70 averaged 3.07 +/- 0.75 in patients with lung cancer and 1.57 +/- 0.33 in control subjects (p < 0.001 by analysis of variance). No significant stimulation was observed with HSP-70 derived either from the majority of heterologous tumors or from autologous tumor-free lung tissue. SI decreased from 3.59 +/- 0.65 to 1.65 +/- 0.38 in six patients tested again 3 months after surgery (p = 0.02 by Wilcoxon test for paired data). HSP-70 derived from lung carcinoma are shown to be associated with T cell antigens. The T cell reactivity appears transient and restricted to antigens complexed to HSP-70 derived from autologous tumors only. This suggests that the antigenicity of human lung tumors is unique, which may be crucial for the design of new vaccines.
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- Alain Michils
- Chest Department, IRIBHN Statistical Unit, Erasme University Hospital, CUB Erasme, Brussels, Belgium.
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Martin GM, Austad SN, Johnson TE. Genetic analysis of ageing: role of oxidative damage and environmental stresses. Nat Genet 1996; 13:25-34. [PMID: 8673100 DOI: 10.1038/ng0596-25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 430] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Evolutionary theory predicts substantial interspecific and intraspecific differences in the proximal mechanisms of ageing. Our goal here is to seek evidence for common ('public') mechanisms among diverse organisms amenable to genetic analysis. Oxidative damage is a candidate for such a public mechanism of ageing. Long-lived strains are relatively resistant to different environmental stresses. The extent to which these stresses produce oxidative damage remains to be established.
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- G M Martin
- Department of Pathology and Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7470, USA
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Volm M, Koomagi R, Kaufmann M, Mattern J, Stammler G. Microvessel density, expression of proto-oncogenes, resistance-related proteins and incidence of metastases in primary ovarian carcinomas. Clin Exp Metastasis 1996; 14:209-14. [PMID: 8674274 DOI: 10.1007/bf00053893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Relationships between the incidence of metastatic spread and microvessel density, expression of proto-oncogene products, or expression of resistance-related proteins were investigated in human ovarian carcinomas by immunohistochemistry. Ovarian carcinomas with a high microvessel density showed a significantly increased formation of metastases (P = 0.005). Tumors with positive immunoreactivity of c-jun and c-myc products had a higher metastatic spread; however, these results were not statistically significant. A marginally significant correlation existed between the expression of erbB1 (EGFR) and metastatic spread (P = 0.05). No significant relationship was found between the expression of the resistance-related proteins P-glycoprotein or glutathione S-transferase-pi and the incidence of metastases. Furthermore, no correlation was detected between expression of the heat shock protein 70 and the occurrence of metastases.
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- M Volm
- German Cancer Research Center, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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