Abstract
We performed comparative proteomic analysis of colorectal cancer to investigate potential target proteins correlated with carcinogenesis and prognosis. Among them, transgelin, a 22 kDa protein also called SM22, was identified as a novel tumor suppressor protein, but little is known about this protein in tumors so far. A remarkable reduced expression of transgelin was found in colorectal cancer samples compared with normal colorectal mucosa. The effect of 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine as a demethylation agent would obviously restore the original expression level of transgelin, implicating DNA hypermethylation of transgelin is important in the regulation of transgelin transcription in colorectal cancer. As a control, the investigation at cell line level confirms that transgelin protein comes from epithelium but not mesenchymal cells. Further, immunohistochemical staining for transgelin was performed on paraffin sections of 62 and 126 cases of normal colorectal mucosa and colorectal cancer specimens, respectively. As compared to normal colorectal tissue, we observed a significantly lower transgelin expression in colorectal cancer samples (P<0.001). Survival analysis demonstrated that patients without transgelin expression had shorter overall survival, whereas patients with transgelin expression had better survival (P=0.006). Multivariate analysis showed that negative transgelin expression was an independent prognostic indicator for patient's survival. Our results suggest that transgelin as a suppressor may serve as important biomarker of malignancy. Loss of transgelin involves gene promoter hypermethylation and is closely associated with poor overall survival in colorectal cancer patients.
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