Research Article Loss of LLGL1 Expression Correlates with Diffuse Gastric Cancer and Distant Peritoneal Metastases
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Hindawi Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Volume 2019, Article ID 2920493, 12 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2920493 Research Article Loss of LLGL1 Expression Correlates with Diffuse Gastric Cancer and Distant Peritoneal Metastases Alexander Desuki,1,2 Frank Staib ,1,3 Ines Gockel,4 Markus Moehler,1 Hauke Lang,5 Stefan Biesterfeld,6 Annett Maderer,1 Peter R. Galle ,1 Martin R. Berger,7 and Carl C. Schimanski 1,8 1 First Department of Internal Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstraße 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany 2Tird Department of Internal Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55131 Mainz, Germany 3Department of Internal Medicine, Marienhospital Darmstadt gGmbH, Martinspfad 72, 64285 Darmstadt, Germany 4DepartmentofVisceral,Transplantation,ToracicandVascularSurgery,UniversityofLeipzig,Liebigstraße20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 5Department of Abdominal and General Surgery, Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstraße 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany 6Institute of Pathology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstraße 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany 7Toxicology and Chemotherapy Unit, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 8Second Department of Internal Medicine, Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH, Grafenstraße 9, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Peter R. Galle; [email protected] and Carl C. Schimanski; [email protected] Received 29 May 2018; Accepted 21 February 2019; Published 1 April 2019 Academic Editor: Masanao Nakamura Copyright © 2019 Alexander Desuki et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background.LossofLLGL1 has been associated with loss of cellular adhesion and dissemination of cells from colorectal cancer and malignant melanoma. Regulation and relevance of LLGL1 were analyzed in gastric cancer patients with lymphatic and distant dissemination. Furthermore, LLGL1 expression was analyzed in relation to the cellular adhesion protein E-cadherin. Methods. LLGL1 and E-cadherin transcription levels were evaluated in 56 gastric cancer patients and fve gastric cancer cell lines. IHC staining for LLGL1 was performed on 39 gastric cancer specimens. LLGL1 was stably transfected into LLGL1 negative gastric cancer cell line SNU16 (del(17) (p11.2)) for functional in vitro assays and a xenograf bioassay. Results. Gastric cancer specimens and cell lines displayed LLGL1 and E-cadherin expression levels with variable intensity. In gastric mucosa, LLGL1 exhibited weak cytoplasmic and strong cortical staining. Loss of LLGL1 expression occurred in 65% of gastric cancers and signifcantly correlated with loss of E-cadherin expression (P=0.00009). Loss of LLGL1 expression was associated with the difuse type of gastric cancer (P=0.029) with peritoneal carcinomatosis (M1; P=0.006) and with female gender (P=0.017). Stable reexpression of LLGL1 in SNU16 cells signifcantly increased both plastic surface adhesion and extracellular matrix proteins laminin and fbronectin, but had no impact on in vitro proliferation, apoptosis, or invasion or on in vivo proliferation or diferentiation in our xenograf bioassay. Conclusion. LLGL1 is coexpressed with E-cadherin. Loss of expression of either protein is associated with difuse gastric cancer and peritoneal metastases. LLGL1 does not impact on proliferation or epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) rather increasing cellular adhesion. 1. Introduction standard therapy with curative intention is radical surgical resection with standardized D2-lymphadenectomy. Despite Gastric cancer incidence has decreased steadily in industri- considerable improvements achieving R0 resections patients alized countries over the last years. However, gastric cancer still require (neo)adjuvant chemotherapeutic strategies as still ranks among the most common causes of cancer and they are still at high risk for local recurrences and early lymph its mortality rate remains high [1–3]. Te current gold node or systemic metastases [4, 5]. 2 Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Accepted risk factors for gastric cancer are chronic Regarding LLGL2, reduced expression has been described in atrophic gastritis, chronic H. pylori infection, and hyper- specimens of high grade pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia, trophic gastropathy among others [6]. Molecular determi- high grade gastric dysplasia, and carcinoma [37–40]. Interest- nants occurring during the development of gastric cancer ingly, reduced basolateral LLGL2 expression was associated include mutations of tumor suppressor genes (E-cadherin, with difuse type gastric cancer and reduced E-cadherin APC, DCC, Rb, p53), oncogenes (K-ras), and mismatch repair expression [38, 41]. Taken together with the data presented genes (MLH-1)[7–10]. in this paper, evidence is accumulating that both human Tumor dissemination results from loss of cellular adhe- homologues of Drosophila l(2)gl are involved in common sion, chemotaxis, and neoangiogenesis. Junctions between human pathways, the inactivation of which promotes cancer epithelial cells have communicating functions such as gap dissemination. junctions, are anchoring junctions such as desmosomes and Te present study was performed to evaluate the role of adherens junctions, or are sealing junctions such as zonula LLGL1 in human gastric carcinogenesis and to analyze the occludens or tight junctions. Adherens junctions segregate association and shared regulation with E-cadherin expres- theapicalfromthebasolateralmembranedomains.Te sion. We screened the transcription profle of LLGL1 and E- predominant protein of adherens junctions is E-cadherin,a cadherin in 5 human gastric cancer cell lines and 56 gastric transmembrane protein stabilizing the basolateral cell-cell carcinomas and performed additional IHC staining of 5 contact. Loss of E-cadherin expression has been linked to gastric mucosal samples and 39 gastric cancers. Functional dissemination of various gastrointestinal malignancies [11, in vitro assays with a stably LLGL1 transfectedcelllinewere 12]. As early as in 1994, loss of E-cadherin expression was performed to characterize the biological features of LLGL1. correlated with difuse type gastric cancer [13]. Since then, We then used the cell lines to induce subcutaneous xenograf multiple reports have described the association between dif- tumors and assessed size and grading with respect to LLGL1 fuse gastric cancer and metastatic disease and also linked the expression. loss of E-cadherin expression with familial gastric cancer [14, 15]. Loss of E-cadherin decreases cellular adhesion, resulting in a critical increase in cellular motility and migration [16]. 2. Material and Methods Another relevant protein for cellular adhesion along 2.1. Cell Culture. For functional analyses, we studied the the basolateral membrane domain is lethal giant larvae human gastric cancer cell lines AGS, NCI-N87, OE33, (l(2)gl)[17].InDrosophila loss of l(2)gl results in loss of MKN45, and SNU16. All cell lines were cultured in DMEM epithelial structure, malignant transformation of the brain supplemented with 10% FCS. hemispheres, and the imaginal discs and in growth of tumor masses resembling human cancers [18]. Tese tumors proliferate and migrate to distant sites upon transplantation 2.2. Tissue Source and Storage. Following ethics committee into wild type Drosophila, thus acting like human metastatic approval and signed informed consent, samples from the cancers [19, 20]. Homologues of l(2)gl have been identifed center of the tumor were obtained from 56 patients under- in diverse species such as rat, insect, worm, and man [21– going elective surgery for gastric cancer at the Department of 23]. Remarkably, the particular function of l(2)gl is conserved Abdominal- and General Surgery, Johannes Gutenberg Uni- among species, as shown by rescue of the l(2)gl mutation in versity, Mainz, Germany. All tissues were stored in cryovials, shock frozen in liquid nitrogen immediately afer extirpation Drosophila with the human homologue LLGL1 [22, 24]. ∘ Evidence has also been published that mammalian l(2)gl andstoredat-80Cuntilfurtherprocessing. regulates epithelial cell polarity and migration as a member of the polarity complex consisting of Par6/Par3/atypical PKC 2.3. RNA Isolation and RT-PCR. RNA isolation was per- and l(2)gl [25–27]. formed using the Qiagen RNeasy Kit according to the man- In humans, highly related homologues of l(2)gl, LLGL1, ufacturer’s recommendations (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). and LLGL2 have been identifed, mapping to the short and Gene transcription of ß-actin, LLGL1, and E-cadherin was long arm of chromosome 17. LLGL1 has been located in a analyzed by two-step RT-PCR: Reverse transcription was critical pericentromeric region, 17p11.2-12 containing cancer performed with 2 �g of RNA (20 �l total volume; Ominscript susceptibility genes for primitive neuroectodermal tumors RT Kit, Qiagen) according to the recommendations of the [21]. Furthermore, LLGL1 maps within the 17p interstitial manufacturer. One �l of the cDNA was used as template deletion detected in mentally retarded children with Smith- for PCR-reactions. Primers applied were ß-actin-forward: � � Magenis syndrome [28, 29]. 5 - TGACGGGGTCACCCACACTGTGCCCATCTA - 3 � In 2005, loss of LLGL1 was associated with tumor- and ß-actin-reverse: 5 - CTAGAAGCATTTGCGGTGGAC- � suppressive functions and