An Immunohistochemical Study of Thioredoxin Domain-Containing 5 Expression in Gastric Adenocarcinoma
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1154 ONCOLOGY LETTERS 9: 1154-1158, 2015 An immunohistochemical study of thioredoxin domain-containing 5 expression in gastric adenocarcinoma ZHIMING WU1,2, LIN ZHANG1, NAN LI1, LINA SHA1 and KUNPENG ZHANG1 1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The 309 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100091; 2Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou, Hebei 073000, P.R. China Received February 12, 2014; Accepted November 7, 2014 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2014.2832 Abstract. Thioredoxin domain-containing 5 (TXNDC5) is Introduction overexpressed in a number of human carcinomas. However, the involvement of TXNDC5 in gastric adenocarcinoma Gastric cancer is the most common malignant tumor world- remains unclear. In the present study, the immunohisto- wide (1,2). The most common pathological type of gastric chemical expression and clinicopathological significance of cancer is adenocarcinoma. Gastric adenocarcinoma is the TXNDC5 in gastric adenocarcinoma was investigated. The most common type of carcinoma in China. As a complex immunohistochemical expression of TXNDC5 was detected multifactorial process, gastric carcinogenesis is believed in 54 gastric adenocarcinoma specimens, and the correlation to involve numerous genes and their products (3-5). In our between TXNDC5 and the clinicopathological features was previous study, comparative proteome analysis revealed investigated. Of the 54 gastric adenocarcinoma specimens, that the expression of thioredoxin domain-containing 5 30 samples (55.6%) exhibited high TXNDC5 expression. In (TXNDC5) was significantly upregulated in certain precan- the adenocarcinoma specimens exhibiting high TXNDC5 cerous lesions of gastric cancer, such as varioliform gastritis expression, the proportion of poorly-differentiated adeno- (VG), compared with the peripheral normal gastric mucous carcinomas was significantly higher than that in specimens membrane (6). Thus, we hypothesized that upregulation of exhibiting low TXNDC5 expression (P<0.05). Lymph node the TXNDC5 gene may lead to increased proliferation, as metastasis and the depth of tumor invasion in the specimens well as enhanced invasive activity, indicating a potential ex h ibit i ng h ig h T X N D C5 exp r ession wer e sig n i fica nt ly h ig her oncogene. than that in specimens exhibiting low TXNDC5 expression TXNDC5 was first identified in 2003 using two‑dimen- (P<0.05). The results of a survival analysis revealed that the sional gel electrophoresis analysis of the endoplasmic reticula prognosis of patients exhibiting high TXNDC5 expression of hepatic tissue (7). TXNDC5, which is a protein disulfide was significantly poorer than that of patients exhibiting low isomerase-like protein, was found to be highly expressed in TXNDC5 expression (P<0.05). Therefore, the expression of endothelial cells. Furthermore, Sullivan et al (7) reported TXNDC5 may correlate with the differentiation, invasion that TXNDC5 protects endothelial cells from stress-induced and metastasis of gastric adenocarcinoma. Thus, TXNDC5 apoptosis. An increasing number of studies have revealed may be a tumor-enhancing gene that is involved in gastric that the upregulation of TXNDC5 is found in tumors of the cancer. cervix, uterus and lungs (7-9). According to these studies, the TXNDC5 gene is hypothesized to be a tumor-enhancing gene, however, studies regarding the involvement of the TXNDC5 in gastric cancer remain limited. Furthermore, the association between TXNDC5 expression and clinicopathological factors in gastric adenocarcinoma remains unclear. In the present study, the expression of TXNDC5 in gastric adenocarcinoma was investigated by immunohistochemistry and the clinico- Correspondence to: Dr Lin Zhang, Department of Gastroenterology pathological significance of TXNDC5 gene expression was and Hepatology, The 309 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, investigated. 17 Heishanhu Road, Beijing 100091, P.R. China E-mail: [email protected] Materials and methods Key words: gastric cancer, thioredoxin domain-containing 5 gene, Materials. Polyclonal goat anti-human TXNDC5 antibody immunohistochemistry, prognosis (1:1,000) was purchased from Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., (Danvers, MA, USA). Rabbit anti-goat horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated antibody (dilution 1:200) was purchased WU et al: TXNDC5 IN GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA 1155 Figure 1. Immunohistochemical analysis. (A) Brown positive signals were predominantly distributed in the cytoplasm of the cancer cells in the samples with high TXNDC expression (SABC stain; magnification, x200). (B) Weaker brown positive signals and fewer positive cells were identified in the samples with low TXNDC expression (SABC stain; magnification, x200). TXNDC5, thioredoxin domain‑containing 5; SABC, streptavidin‑biotin complex. from Beijing Zhongshan Golden Bridge Biotechnology Co., applied for 1 h. After three washes with PBS, the biotin-labeled Ltd., (Beijing, China). rabbit anti-goat HRP secondary antibody was added for 20 min. Next, the sections were washed in PBS for 10 min, then Sample collection. Samples were obtained from 86 patients 3,3'-diaminobenzidine was applied as the chromogen. Finally, with gastric cancer treated at the 309 Hospital of the People's the sections were counterstained with Harris' hematoxylin Liberation Army (Beijing, China) between 1995 and 2008. for 3 min and coverslips were applied with a xylene-based The patients were diagnosed by gastroscopy and biopsy, and mounting medium. For the semiquantification of TXNDC5, the results were confirmed by gastric resection, three-field the immunostaining was analyzed based on the criteria that lymph node dissection and reconstruction of the digestive tract. were presented by Kase et al (11) and Nozoe et al (12). The No patients received preoperative therapy. All samples were TXNDC5-labeling index (showing the positive proportion of obtained during surgery. Four tissue sections of the tumor and TXNDC5) was expressed as the percentage of the number of normal mucosa were obtained from each patient and the tissue TXNDC5-labeled cells divided by the total number of cells was embedded in paraffin for future use. The tissue sections examined under a microscope (20X objective). The average were classified as well‑ or poorly-differentiated according to value of 10 fields was calculated. pathological diagnosis. Immunohistochemical analysis of the High TXNDC5 expression was represented by ≥50% 86 patient samples revealed that 32 samples exhibited negative of the carcinoma cells in a specimen exhibiting positivity TXNDC5 staining, whereas 54 exhibited positive immunohis- for TXNDC5. Specimens with <50% of the carcinoma cells tochemical staining (positive rate, 62.8%). Of the 54 patients, exhibiting positivity for TXNDC5 were considered to exhibit 37 were male and 17 were female, with a mean age of 60.6 years low TXNDC5 expression. (mean ± standard deviation, 60.6±13.1 years). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. This study was approved Reverse transcription‑polymerase chain reaction (RT‑PCR) by the Ethics Committee of the 309 Hospital of the People's assay of TXNDC5. Total RNA (1,400 ng/µl) was extracted Liberation Army. The clinicopathological stages of the tumors by homogenization using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen Life were assessed according to the International Union Against Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA). cDNA was synthesized in Cancer tumor‑node‑metastasis classification (10). Follow‑up of a 20-µl reverse transcription reaction system using 5 µg RNA. the patients was performed after surgery until mortality. The TXNDC5 was amplified and β2-MG was used as the internal mean duration of the follow-up period was two years and eight control, in a DNA thermal cycler (PerkinElmer, Inc., Waltham, months (range, 1 month and 7 days to 4 years and 8 months). MA, USA) using equal amounts of cDNA as a template. The PCR products were separated by 1.5% agarose gel electropho- Immunohistochemical assay of TXNDC5. Tissue sections resis, then scanned and analyzed using an ImageMaster VDS (5 µm) were cut from paraffin‑embedded tissue blocks, placed System (GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden). on slides precoated with silane and incubated for 20 min at 60˚C. Subsequent to being washed in xylene and a graded series Statistical analysis. Student's t-test and the χ2 test were used to of ethanol to remove the paraffin, the sections were washed compare the data. A survival analysis was performed using the with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) for 10 min. The sections Life Tables method. All statistical analyses were performed were then treated with 2% bovine serum albumin (BSA; Beijing using SPSS version 11.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Huamaike Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China) and 0.1% P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant Triton X-100 (Shanghai Suolaibao Biotechnology Co., Ltd., difference. Shanghai, China) in PBS (Shanghai Kexing Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China) for 1 h at room temperature. Next, Results the sections were treated with 3% H2O2 for 10 min to block endogenous peroxidase activity. Subsequent to being washed in The results of the immunohistochemical assay revealed PBS for 10 min, polyclonal goat anti-TXNDC5 antibody was brown staining, representing positive signals, predominantly 1156 ONCOLOGY LETTERS 9: 1154-1158, 2015 Table I. Association between TXNDC5 expression and clinicopathological characteristics. Low TXNDC5 High TXNDC5 Clinicopathological parameter expression expression P-value Age, years 59.3±10.4 61.6±15.2