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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Mo, Ha Yoona | Jo, Yun Sola | Yoo, Nam Jina | Kim, Min Sunga | Song, Sang Yongb | Lee, Sug Hyunga; *
Affiliations: [a] Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea | [b] Department of Pathology and Translational Genomics, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Sug Hyung Lee, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505 Banpo-dong, Socho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea. Tel.: +82 2 590 1188; Fax: +82 2 537 6586; E-mail: suhulee@catholic.ac.kr.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Both QKI and TMEFF2 genes are considered putative tumor suppressor genes (TSGs). In gastric (GC) and colorectal (CRC) cancers, downregulation of their expressions is known to be frequent. However, QKI and TMEFF2 mutations that could potentially inactivate their functions are not reported in cancers. METHODS: In a genome database, we observed that both QKI and TMEFF2 harbor mononucleotide repeats, which could be mutated in cancers with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H). For this, we studied 79 GCs and 124 CRCs for the mutations and their intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH). RESULTS: Six of 34 GCs (17.6%) and 10 of 79 CRCs (12.7%) with MSI-H exhibited QKI frameshift mutations while five of 79 CRCs (6.3%) with high MSI (MSI-H) exhibited TMEFF2 frameshift mutations. However, we found no such mutation in microsatellite stable/low MSI (MSS/MSI-L) cancers within the mononucleotide repeats. We also studied ITH for the detected frameshift mutations in 16 cases of CRCs and detected that QKI and TMEFF2 frameshift mutations showed regional ITH in 2 (12.5%) and 1 (6.3%) cases, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show that candidate TSG genes QKI and TMEFF2 harbor mutational ITH as well as the frameshift mutations in GC and CRC with MSI-H. From this observation, frameshift mutations of QKI and TMEFF2 may play a role in tumorigenesis through their TSG inactivation in GC and CRC.
Keywords: QK1, TMEFF2, tumor suppressor gene, methylation, frameshift mutation, cancer, microsatellite instability
DOI: 10.3233/CBM-160559
Journal: Cancer Biomarkers, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2019
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