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Quantitative Analysis of Human Kallikrein Gene 14 Expression in Breast Tumours Indicates Association with Poor Prognosis British Journal of Cancer (2002) 87, 1287 – 1293 ª 2002 Cancer Research UK All rights reserved 0007 – 0920/02 $25.00 www.bjcancer.com Quantitative analysis of human kallikrein gene 14 expression in breast tumours indicates association with poor prognosis GM Yousef1,2, CA Borgon˜o1,2, A Scorilas3, R Ponzone4, N Biglia4, L Iskander2, M-E Polymeris2, R Roagna4, P Sismondi4 and EP Diamandis*,1,2 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3National Center of Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, IPC, Athens, 153 10, Greece; 4Academic Division of Gynecological Oncology, University of Turin, Mauriziano Umberto Hospital and Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) of Candiolo, Turin, Italy KLK14 (formerly known as KLK-L6) is a recently identified member of the human kallikrein gene family. This family harbours several genes aberrantly expressed in various cancers as well as established (PSA/hK3, hK2) and potential (hK6, hK10) cancer markers. Similar to other kallikrein genes, KLK14 was found to be regulated by steroid hormones, particularly androgens and progestins, in breast and ovarian cancer cell lines. Preliminary studies indicated that KLK14 is differentially expressed in breast, ovarian, prostatic and testicular tumours. Given the above, we determined the prognostic significance of KLK14 expression in breast cancer. We studied KLK14 expression in 178 histologically confirmed epithelial breast carcinomas by quantitative reverse transcription – polymerase chain reaction and correlated with clinicopathological variables (tumour stage, grade, histotype etc.) and with outcome (disease-free survival and overall survival), monitored over a median of 76 months. KLK14 mRNA levels ranged from 0 to 1219 arbitrary units in breast cancer tissues, with a mean+s.e. of 136+22. An optimal cutoff value of 40.5 arbitrary units was selected, to categorise tumours as KLK14-positive or negative. Higher concentrations of KLK14 mRNA were more frequently found in patients with advanced stage (III) disease (P=0.032). No statistically significant association was found between KLK14 and the other clinicopathological variables. KLK14 overexpression was found to be a significant predictor of decreased disease-free survival (hazard ratio of 2.31, P=0.001) and overall survival (hazard ratio of 2.21, P=0.005). Cox multivariate analysis indicated that KLK14 was an independent prognostic indicator of disease-free survival and overall survival. KLK14 also has independent prognostic value in subgroups of patients with a tumour size 42 cm and positive nodal, oestrogen receptor and progestin receptor status. We conclude that KLK14 expression, as assessed by quantitative reverse transcription – polymerase chain reaction, is an independent marker of unfavourable prognosis for breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer (2002) 87, 1287 – 1293. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600623 www.bjcancer.com ª 2002 Cancer Research UK Keywords: serine proteases; breast cancer; cancer genes; tumour markers; prognostic; predictive factors; kallikreins; KLK14 Molecular and Cellular Pathology Breast cancer is the most prevalent malignancy among women, which participate in many aspects of carcinogenesis, including accounting for 21% of all female cancers and ranking third overall stimulating cellular growth, angiogenesis and the degradation of when both sexes are considered (Parkin et al, 1999). Although the the extracellular matrix (Gottesman, 1990; Duffy, 1991). These increased use of screening for early disease diagnosis and the wide- functions are in accord with clinical studies demonstrating that spread administration of systemic adjuvant therapies have lead to a the aberrant expression of certain serine proteases correlates with decline in mortality rates, breast cancer is still the leading cause of the invasiveness and metastasis of cancer cells and predicts poor death from cancer in women, causing over 39 500 deaths in the US prognosis in various malignancies (Herszenyi et al, 1999; Kuhn et annually (Peto et al, 2000; Jemal et al, 2002). al, 1999). Given the heterogeneous nature of breast carcinomas, much Human kallikreins are a subset of secreted serine proteases attention has been focussed on the identification of tumour asso- found in a wide range of tissues and biological fluids and impli- ciated molecular markers that reveal the biological profile of each cated in diverse physiological and pathological processes tumour and ultimately aid in determining cancer risk, diagnosis, (Diamandis et al, 2000b; Yousef and Diamandis, 2001). The screening, prognosis, monitoring, management and prediction of kallikrein genes, denoted KLK1 – KLK15, are located on chromo- therapeutic response in breast cancer patients (Duffy, 2001). some 19q13.4 and encode for corresponding kallikrein enzymes, Among the multitude of markers discovered are serine proteases, hK1 – hK15 (Diamandis et al, 2000a; Yousef et al, 2000b). Accumu- lating evidence indicates that many members of this family are differentially expressed in certain malignancies, including prostate *Correspondence: Dr EP Diamandis, Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of (Rittenhouse et al, 1998; Magklara et al, 1999; Barry, 2001; Yousef Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, et al, 2001c; Diamandis et al, 2002), testicular (Luo et al, 2001c), Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada; E-mail: [email protected] breast (Yousef et al, 2000a,c) and ovarian (Anisowicz et al, 1996; Received 29 May 2002; revised 3 September 2002; accepted 4 September Diamandis et al, 2000c; Kim et al, 2001; Luo et al, 2001b; Magklara 2002 et al, 2001; Obiezu et al, 2001; Yousef et al, 2001a) cancers. Also, KLK14 expression and breast cancer prognosis GM Yousef et al 1288 many kallikrein genes examined thus far are under steroid Table 2 Associations between KLK14 statusa and other variables in 178 hormone regulation, further suggesting a role for these enzymes patients with epithelial breast carcinomas in endocrine-related tissues (Yousef and Diamandis, 2002). Addi- tionally, PSA/hK3, is the best tumour marker available in clinical No. of patients (%) medicine for diagnosing and managing prostate cancer (Diaman- Variable Total KLK14-negative KLK14-positive P value dis, 1998; Barry, 2001), hK2 is useful for certain subgroups of prostate cancer patients (Magklara et al, 1999), hK6, 10 and 11, Age (years) 545 34 22 (64.7) 12 (35.3) have recently emerged as potential serological epithelial ovarian d cancer markers (Luo et al, 2001a; Diamandis et al, 2002), and 45 – 55 46 34 (73.9) 12 (26.1) 0.63 455 95 64 (67.4) 31 (32.6) several others possess clinical utility as prognostic/predictive X3 markers (Diamandis and Yousef, 2001). Human kallikrein gene 14 (KLK14), formerly known as KLK-L6, Menopausal status Pre/peri 62 44 (71.0) 18 (29.0) 0.73e is a recently identified member of the human kallikrein gene family Post 113 76 (67.3) 37 (32.7) (Yousef et al, 2001b). Structurally, this gene is formed of five X3 coding exons and four intervening introns. The encoded protein, Tumor size (cm) hK14, is a trypsin-like serine protease, translated as an inactive 52 82 60 (73.2) 22 (26.8) 0.25e 251 amino acid preproenzyme precursor of about 27.5 kDa, of 52 93 60 (64.5) 33 (35.5) which 18 amino acids constitute the signal peptide and six amino X3 acids the activation peptide. hK14 harbours the conserved catalytic Nodal status triad characteristic of serine proteases and is highly homologous to Negative 67 51 (76.1) 16 (23.9) 0.17e other kallikreins, including PSA/hK3. KLK14 has a restricted tissue Positive 93 61 (65.6) 32 (34.4) expression pattern and is found in the central nervous system as X18 well as in endocrine-related tissues such as the uterus, ovary, Stagec thyroid and testis. Additionally, in situ hybridisation studies I 74 58 (78.4) 16 (21.6) demonstrated that KLK14 is expressed by the secretory epithelial II 68 46 (67.6) 22 (32.4) 0.032d Molecular and Cellular Pathology cells of benign prostate gland, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia III 22 11 (50.0) 11 (50.0) and malignant prostate cells (Hooper et al, 2001). Preliminary X14 studies have shown that KLK14 is down-regulated at the mRNA Gradeb level in prostatic, testicular, ovarian and breast cancer tissues and I 72 48 (66.7) 24 (33.3) in two breast cancer cell lines (Yousef et al, 2001b). Hormonal II 51 36 (70.6) 15 (29.4) 0.89e regulation studies in breast and ovarian cancer cell lines indicate III 49 33 (67.3) 16 (32.7) that KLK14 expression is controlled by the androgen receptor in X6 response to steroid hormones, particularly androgens and proges- Histology Ductal 109 73 (67.0) 36 (33.0) tins (our unpublished data). Based on these collective findings, d we hypothesised that KLK14 expression in malignant breast tissues Lobular 28 17 (60.7) 11 (39.3) 0.27 may have prognostic/predictive value for patients with breast carci- Other 37 29 (78.4) 8 (21.6) X4 nomas. ER status Negative 62 45 (72.6) 17 (27.4) 0.49e MATERIALS AND METHODS Positive 107 71 (66.4) 36 (33.6) X9 Study population PR status Negative 78 52 (66.7) 26 (33.3) 0.74e Tumour specimens from 178 consecutive patients undergoing Positive 92 64 (69.6) 28 (30.4) surgical treatment for primary breast carcinoma at the Department X8 of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy were Adjuvant treatment analysed in this study. Patient age ranged from 25 to 87 years, with None 33 26 (78.8) 7 (21.2) a median of 58 years (Table 1). Follow-up information (median Tamoxifen 83 56 (67.5) 27 (32.5) 0.35d follow-up period of 76 months) was available for 164 patients, Chemotherapy+tamoxifen 59 38 (64.4) 21 (35.6) among whom 60 (36%) had relapsed and 51 (31%) died. All tissue X4 specimens were histologically confirmed and frozen in liquid nitro- aCutoff point: 40.5, equals to 69th percentile.
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