Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.4061/2011/489064
Abstract
To detect the molecular changes of malignancy in histologically normal breast (HNB) tissues, we recently developed a novel 117-gene-malignancy-signature. Here we report validation of our leading malignancy-risk-genes, topoisomerase-2-alpha (TOP2A), minichromosome-maintenance-protein-2 (MCM2) and “budding-uninhibited-by-benzimidazoles-1-homolog-beta” (BUB1B) at the protein level. Using our 117-gene malignancy-signature, we classified 18 fresh-frozen HNB tissues from 18 adult female breast cancer patients into HNB-tissues with low-grade (HNB-LGMA; ) and high-grade molecular abnormality (HNB-HGMA; ). Archival sections of additional HNB tissues from these patients, and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) tissues from six other patients were immunostained for these biomarkers. TOP2A/MCM2 expression was assessed as staining index (%) and BUB1B expression as H-scores (0–300). Increasing TOP2A, MCM2, and BUB1B protein expression from HNB-LGMA to HNB-HGMA tissues to IDCs validated our microarray-based molecular classification of HNB tissues by immunohistochemistry. We also demonstrated an increasing expression of TOP2A protein on an independent test set of HNB/benign/reductionmammoplasties, atypical-ductal-hyperplasia with and without synchronous breast cancer, DCIS and IDC tissues using a custom tissue microarray (TMA). In conclusion, TOP2A, MCM2, and BUB1B proteins are potential molecular biomarkers of malignancy in histologically normal and benign breast tissues. Larger-scale clinical validation studies are needed to further evaluate the clinical utility of these molecular biomarkers.
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Pathology Research International, v. 2011, art. 489064
Scholar Commons Citation
Nasir, Aejaz; Chen, Dung-Tsa; Gruidl, Mike; Henderson-Jackson, Evita B.; Venkataramu, Chinnambally; McCarthy, Susan M.; McBrid, Heyoung L.; Harris, Eleanor; Khakpour, Nazanin; and Yeatman, Timothy J., "Novel Molecular Markers of Malignancy in Histologically Normal and Benign Breast" (2011). Pathology and Cell Biology Faculty Publications. 6.
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