To conclude, systemic p16 peptide administration decreased lung tumor development in a mouse metastatic BT model without severe adverse events, as assessed by blood analyses and histological evaluation.
<b>Patients & methods:</b> Lung tumor tissue microarray (n = 163), immunohistochemical study of p16 and p53, and HPV <i>in-situ</i> hybridization were analyzed.
The Contrasting Role of p16Ink4A Patterns of Expression in Neuroendocrine and Non-Neuroendocrine Lung Tumors: A Comprehensive Analysis with Clinicopathologic and Molecular Correlations.
In multivariate analysis, p16 hypermethylation was more prevalent in lung tumours from male than female patients (P = 0.018) and in squamous cell carcinomas than in adenocarcinomas (P = 0.025).
Western blot analysis showed that stromal cells of lung tumours were characterised by a statistically significantly lower expression level of the p16 protein as compared with that in normal lung stromal cells.
Implication of p16 inactivation in tumorigenic activity of respiratory epithelial cell lines and adenocarcinoma cell line established from plutonium-induced lung tumor in rat.
Our analyses revealed a high frequency of aberrant hypermethylation of MTHFR, RASSF1A, and CDKN2A in lung tumors as compared with control blood samples, whereas no significant increase in methylation levels of GSTP1 and CDH1 was observed, consistent with the notion that aberrant DNA methylation occurs in a tumor-specific and gene-specific manner.
The formation of lung tumors by these chemicals involved mutations in the K-ras cancer gene and loss of heterozygosity in the region of K-ras on distal chromosome 6, while alterations in p53 and p16 were implicated in brain tumorigenesis.
To further explore the molecular mechanisms between altered TSGs promoter methylation and overexpression of DNMTs protein, we performed a tissue chromatin-immunoprecipitation polymerase chain reaction assay for lung tumors and showed that the methylated FHIT, p16(INK4a) and RARbeta promoters were bound by both DNMT protein and methyl-CpG-binding protein 2.
H1299 lung cancer cells, lacking Fhit, Wwox, p16(INK4a) and Rassf1a expression due to epigenetic modifications, were used to assess efficacy of epigenetically targeted protocols in suppressing growth of lung tumors, by injection of 5-aza-2-deoxycytidine (AZA) and trichostatin A (TSA) in nude mice with established H1299 tumors.
Based on the concordance of biomarkers in lung tumours and corresponding sputum, and the low prevalence in cancer-free individuals, we selected seven markers for a nested case-control study: microsatellite instability of D9S942; loss of heterozygosity of D9S286, D9S942, GATA49D12, and D13S170; and methylation of p16INK4a and RARbeta.
Here, we applied methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction to compare the frequencies of the methylated promoter of p16 and O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) genes in lung tumors from 122 patients with non-small cell lung cancer, including 81 smokers and 41 never-smokers.
Moreover, and consistent with p14ARF being a determinant of CHK2 phosphorylation in lung carcinogenesis, a strong correlation between p14ARF and phospho-CHK2 (Thr68) protein expression is observed in human lung tumors (P < 0.00006).
Here, we applied methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction to compare the frequencies of the methylated promoter of p16 and O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) genes in lung tumors from 122 patients with non-small cell lung cancer, including 81 smokers and 41 never-smokers.
Moreover, the reverse correlation between p16INK4a immunostaining and p16INK4a promoter hypermethylation was also only observed in nonsmoking female lung tumors.