Overexpression of SLC38A1 is associated with poorer prognosis in Chinese patients with gastric cancer

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العنوان: Overexpression of SLC38A1 is associated with poorer prognosis in Chinese patients with gastric cancer
المؤلفون: Ping Li, Jiejun Wang, Ling-Yan Yuan, Huifeng Gao, Jing Xie, Jianxin Qian
المصدر: BMC Gastroenterology
بيانات النشر: Springer Nature
مصطلحات موضوعية: Male, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Amino Acid Transport System A, Adenocarcinoma, medicine.disease_cause, Tissue microarray, Malignant transformation, Asian People, Cell Movement, Stomach Neoplasms, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Gastric mucosa, Humans, Viability assay, RNA, Small Interfering, Cell Proliferation, Prognostic factor, business.industry, Gastroenterology, Cancer, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Immunohistochemistry, medicine.anatomical_structure, Tumor progression, Cancer cell, Cancer research, Female, SLC38A1, Gastric cancer, Carcinogenesis, business, Research Article
الوصف: Background Current literature has demonstrated that host glutamine depletion facilitates tumorigenesis. Likewise, the glutamine transporter SLC38A1 is putatively associated with malignant transformation and tumor progression. Taken together, this forms the premise for undertaking the current study. The twofold aim of this study was to provide insight into whether or not a variance in the expression of SLC38A1 exists between human gastric cancer and healthy human tissues, and to determine how silencing the SLC38A1 gene could affect the proliferation, viability, migration, and invasion of gastric cancer cells. Methods Immunohistochemical staining was used to analyze the expression of SLC38A1 in gastric cancer tissues and adjacent healthy mucosa in 896 patients with pathologically confirmed gastric cancer who had underwent R0 resection. SH-10-TC cells (a gastric cancer cell line) were used to examine whether silencing SLC38A1 with siRNA could affect cell viability, migration and invasion. Results The SLC38A1 protein was very low or undetectable in healthy gastric mucosa. In contrast, strong staining of SLC38A1 protein was found in the cytoplasm in 495 out of the 896 gastric cancer samples. More pronounced SLC38A1 expression in gastric cancer tissues was significantly associated with age, differentiation status, lymph node metastasis, TNM stage and PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen) expression. Upon univariate survival analysis, SLC38A1 expression was correlated with poor survival. Multivariate survival analysis revealed that SLC38A1 was an independent prognostic factor. Conclusion SLC38A1 is overexpressed in gastric cancer, which suggests that it is contributory to tumor progression. These results encourage the exploration of SLC38A1 as a target for intervention in gastric cancer.
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1471-230X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230x-14-70
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2f825bf7c004919e6f7b1226cb4ea2c5
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رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....2f825bf7c004919e6f7b1226cb4ea2c5
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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تدمد:1471230X
DOI:10.1186/1471-230x-14-70