101. Regulation of E2F1 by the von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor protein predicts survival in renal cell cancer patients.
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Mans DA, Vermaat JS, Weijts BG, van Rooijen E, van Reeuwijk J, Boldt K, Daenen LG, van der Groep P, Rowland BD, Jans JJ, Roepman R, Voest EE, van Diest PJ, Verhaar MC, de Bruin A, and Giles RH
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- Animals, Blotting, Western, Carcinoma, Renal Cell genetics, Carcinoma, Renal Cell pathology, Cellular Senescence, Disease Models, Animal, E2F1 Transcription Factor metabolism, Female, Humans, Kidney Neoplasms genetics, Kidney Neoplasms pathology, Male, Middle Aged, Organisms, Genetically Modified, Plasmids, Prognosis, Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen metabolism, Proportional Hazards Models, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Survival Rate, Transfection, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Zebrafish, Carcinoma, Renal Cell mortality, E2F1 Transcription Factor genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic physiology, Kidney Neoplasms mortality, Von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein physiology
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Biallelic mutations of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene are the most common cause of sporadic and inherited renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Loss of VHL has been reported to affect cell proliferation by deregulating cell cycle-associated proteins. We report that the VHL gene product (pVHL) inhibits E2F1 expression at both mRNA and protein level in zebrafish and human RCC cells, while loss of VHL increases E2F1 expression in patient kidney tumour tissue and RCC cells, resulting in a delay of cell cycle progression. RCCs from von Hippel-Lindau patients with known germline VHL mutations express significantly more E2F1 compared to sporadic RCCs with either clear-cell (cc) or non-cc histology. Analysis of 138 primary RCCs reveals that E2F1 expression is significantly higher in tumours with a diameter ≤7 cm and with a favourable American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage. The expression of E2F1 in RCC significantly correlates with p27 expression, suggesting that increased expression of E2F1 in RCC induces tumour cell senescence via p27. Cox regression analysis shows significant prediction of E2F1 expression for disease-free survival and overall survival, implying that E2F1 expression in kidney tumour is a novel prognostic factor for patients with RCC., (Copyright © 2013 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)
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- 2013
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