ICEECE2012 Poster Presentations Endocrine tumours and neoplasia (112 abstracts)
Expression of a novel isoform of thyroid peroxidase (TPO) gene in breast cancer (BC)
I. Muller 1 , C. Giani 1 , E. Fiore 1 , V. Belardi 1 , S. Sabatini 1 , V. Rosellini 1 , N. Funel 1 , D. Campani 1 , F. Grennan-Jones 2 , L. Zhang 2 , M. Lewis 2 , A. Bakhsh 2 , M. Roncella 1 , M. Ghilli 1 , A. Pinchera 1 , P. Vitti 1 , C. Dayan 2 & M. Ludgate 2
School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Introduction: BC patients have a high prevalence of anti-TPO-autoantibodies (TPOAb), which seem to be protective in BC patients. We hypothesized the presence of T-lymphocytes citotoxicity against a common antigen between thyroid and BC cells.
Aim: To evaluate the possible expression of TPO gene in BC.
Materials: Frozen tissue specimens: 8 BC, 5 peri-tumoral breast tissues (PT), 3 pancreatic adenocarcinoma (P), 2 kidney cancers (K) and thyroid (T) as positive control. 3 BC cell-lines (C), MCF-7, T47-D and MDAMB-231, grown with and without β-estradiol and/or insulin-growth-factor-II (IGF-II).
Methods: TPO mRNA expression was evaluated by Reverse-Transcriptase-PCR using different primers pairs distinguishing among different known TPO isoforms. TPO protein expression was studied with Western Blot using monoclonal mouse antibody ab76935.
Results: Known TPO variants mRNA was expressed in all BC and PT, weakly in C independently from β-estradiol and/or IGF-II exposition, at the limit of detection in P and K and highly in T. In particular BC, PT and C presented a new TPO isoform without exons 14 and 16, weakly expressed in T and absent in P and K. TPO protein was found at the expected level (100–110 kDa) in T, C and many BC, PT, P, K; the signal was reduced or disappeared after ab76935 pre-absorption with recombinant TPO fragments, indicating a specific binding. All samples presented also other signals corresponding to lower molecular weight (MW) proteins, present also in T: they could represent corresponding proteins of smaller TPO isoforms.
Conclusions: TPO main isoforms mRNA and protein are weakly but clearly expressed in almost all samples. BC, PT and C present also a new variant without exons 14 and 16, absent in P and K. Further experiments are necessary to quantify TPO expression and to search for a lower MW protein corresponding to the new TPO isoform found.
Declaration of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research project.
Funding: This work was supported, however funding details unavailable.
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