Journal
CELL BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages 599-604Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12013-014-0507-2
Keywords
Epigenetic alterations; Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC); Hypermethylation; Methylation; Cutaneous SCC tissues; DAPK1; CDH13
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31470274]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [SBK201122425]
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Skin Diseases and STIs [20122D006]
- Jiangsu Provincical Special Program of Medical Science [BL2012003]
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In order to elucidate the role of epigenetic alterations in the development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), we analyzed both gene-specific promoter hypermethylation and repetitive sequence hypomethylation in cutaneous SCC as well as normal skin tissue samples. We showed that methylation of DAPK1 and CDH13 was associated with cutaneous SCC. While methylation frequency of DAPK1 was increased from sun-protected normal skin, sun-exposed normal skin, perilesional to lesional tissues, methylation of CDH13 was almost exclusively detected in cutaneous SCC tissues. Further, methylation of DAPK1 and CDH13 was neither correlated with the presence of HPV nor with the presence of p53 mutations in lesional skin tissues. Finally, we detected trend of reduced methylation level of repetitive sequences from sun-protected, sun-exposed normal skin samples to perilesional, and lesional tissues from SCC patients. We conclude that both gene-specific hypermethylation and repetitive sequence hypomethylation are present in cutaneous SCC tissue samples; these epigenetic changes might represent an independent pathway in the development of cutaneous SCC.
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