© 1994 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 86, No. 11, 850-855,
June 1, 1994
© 1994 Oxford University Press
P-glycoprotein, HER-2/neu, and Mutant p53 Expression in Human Gynecologic Tumors
Gynecologic Oncology Service, Hospital de Cruces, Universidad del Pais Vasco Baracaldo (Vizcaya), Spain.
Molecular Neurooncology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Charlestown
Correspondence to: Jose{acute}Schneider, M.D., Universidad del Pais Vasco, Hospital de Cruces (Ginecologia), E-48903 Baracaldo (Vizcaya), Spain.
BACKGROUND:: Overexpression of P-glycoprotein has been associated with a worse prognosis for some groups of patients not receiving chemotherapy. Recently, it has been demonstrated that in vitro both c-Ha-Ras overexpression and mutant p53 overexpression do activate the MDR1 gene (also known as PGY1) in murine NIH 3T3 cells. This direct connection between oncogenic activation, antioncogenic malfunctioning (presence of mutant instead of wild-type p53 protein), and MDR1 gene expression constitutes a fundamental conceptual model that could provide an explanation for the obscure prognostic role, in the absence of chemotherapy, of the MDR1 gene.Purpose: Our goal was to test whether the relationship between MDR1 (P-glycoprotein) expression, oncogenic activation, and mutant p53 protein expression demonstrated in vitro is also reproducible in vivo for two groups of human gynecologic tumors. Methods: Fifty tumor specimens (31 mammary, 11 endometrial, and eight cervical) were analyzed. They had been obtained from previously untreated patients. Aliquots of these specimens had been frozen and stored at -70°C since surgical collection or routinely fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin. DNA was extracted from routinely fixed speciments for single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis. Immunohistochemical techniques were used on frozen material to determine: 1) P-glycoprotein expression using two different monoclonal antibodies (c219 and JSB1); 2) HER-2/neu (c-erb-B2; also known as ERBB2) expression using the NCL-CB11 monoclonal antibody; and 3) mutant p53 protein expression using the PAB 1801 monoclonal antibody. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-SSCP was used to confirm recognition of the mutated isoform of p53. Endometrial and cervical carcinomas were studied by both PCR-SSCP DNA analysis and immunohistochemical analysis. Only when there was full concordance between both methods were endometrial and cervical tumors considered to express mutant p53. Results: A statistically significant (P =.009; Fisher's exact test) association between HER-2/neu and MDR1 expression was found for the more aggressive form of inoperable, locally advanced mammary carcinoma. Expression of HER-2/neu or mutant p53 was similar in both tumor groups studied—mammary carcinomas with a low basal expression of P-glycoprotein compared with endometrial and cervical carcinomas with significantly (P =.0002; chi-square test) higher levels of expression.Conclusions: The highly statistically significant coexpression of P-glycoprotein and HER-2/neu took place only in the subgroup of aggressive, locally advanced, inoperable mammary carcinomas, whereas no statistically significant association could be found for operable tumors. No association between mutant p53 expression and MDR1 activation was found in the human tumors analyzed. [J Natl Cancer Inst 86: 850–855, 1994]
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