Journal
MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS
Volume 736, Issue 1-2, Pages 82-92Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2012.04.003
Keywords
Colorectal cancer; Oxidative stress; Lipid peroxidation; 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine; Etheno DNA adducts; DNA repair
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- Polish-French grant [346/N-INCA/2008/0]
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Inflammation, high fat, high red meat and low fiber consumption have for long been known as the most important etiological factors of sporadic colorectal cancers (CRC). Colon cancer originates from neoplastic transformation in a single layer of epithelial cells occupying colonic crypts, in which migration and apoptosis program becomes disrupted. This results in the formation of polyps and metastatic cancers. Mutational program in sporadic cancers involves APC gene, in which mutations occur most abundantly in the early phase of the process. This is followed by mutations in RAS, TP53, and other genes. Progression of carcinogenic process in the colon is accompanied by augmentation of the oxidative stress, which manifests in the increased level of oxidatively damaged DNA both in the colon epithelium, and in blood leukocytes and urine, already at the earliest stages of disease development. Defence mechanisms are deregulated in CRC patients: (i) antioxidative vitamins level in blood plasma declines with the development of disease; (ii) mRNA level of base excision repair enzymes in blood leukocytes of CRC patients is significantly increased: however, excision rate is regulated separately, being increased for 8-oxoGua, while decreased for lipid peroxidation derived ethenoadducts. epsilon Ade and epsilon Cyt; (iii) excision rate of epsilon Ade and epsilon Cyt in colon tumors is significantly increased in comparison to asymptomatic colon margin, and ethenoadducts level is decreased. This review highlights mechanisms underlying such deregulation, which is the driving force to colon carcinogenesis. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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