ISSN: 1837-9664Journal of Cancer
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J Cancer 2017; 8(18):3641-3647. doi:10.7150/jca.20777 This issue Cite
Research Paper
MCMs expression in lung cancer: implication of prognostic significance
1. Department of Medical Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China;
3. State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China;
4. Department of Pathology, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Abstract
Minichromosome Maintenance (MCM) proteins play essential roles in various cancers. We previously reported that MCM7 could be a prognostic biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The purpose of current study is to explore roles of other MCM proteins in NSCLC and their correlation with clinico-pathologic parameters of NSCLC patients. We evaluated the expression of MCM2, MCM5 and MCM6 immunohistochemically in 571 primary NSCLC samples. High expression of MCM2, MCM5 and MCM6 was detected in 42.2%, 38.3% and 52.9% of tumor tissues, respectively. The expression of MCM2, MCM5 and MCM6 was significantly associated with gender (P = 0.00004, 0.00004, 0.008), tumor type (P < 0.00001, < 0.00001, 0.00001) and smoking history (P = 0.009, 0.00043, 0.002). MCM2 and MCM5 were detected more in central-type lung cancer (P< 0.006, 0.016). Higher labeling index (LI) of MCM2 was observed more frequently in aged patients (P = 0.023) and in those at later stage (P = 0.001). Higher MCM5 LIs was detected more in patients with distant metastasis (P = 0.008). Kaplan-Meier curves indicated that early-stage (stage I/II) patients with higher MCM2 LIs had a poorer OS compared to those with lower LIs (P = 0.021). And lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) patients presenting high MCM5 expression had shorter OS (P = 0.015). Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that MCM5 was an independent prognostic indicator (P = 0.035, HR = 1.586, 95%CI: 1.032-2.437). We reported for the first time that higher MCM5 LIs could be an independent adverse prognostic biomarker for SCC patients.
Keywords: Non-small cell lung cancer, Prognosis, Biomarker, MCM2, MCM5, MCM6
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