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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages E357-E364Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.5301/jbm.5000048
Keywords
Aldehyde dehydrogenase1; Breast cancer; Flow cytometry; Immunohistochemistry; Tissue microarray
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- National Natural Science Foundation [81000991]
- PUMC Youth Fund [2012J29, 3332013117]
- open project of State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology [SKL-KF-2010-03]
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The stem cell marker ALDH1 has been of particular interest to scientists since it has been successfully used as a marker to isolate cancer stem cells from breast cancers. However, little is known, especially in Chinese breast cancer patients, on whether ALDH1 enrichment is prevalent in certain subtypes of breast cancer. In this study, we performed flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry to measure the expression of ALDH1 in 10 breast cancer cell lines and in a set of tissue microarrays consisting of 101 breast cancer tissues from the Chinese population. The 101 breast cancer tissues included 4 cancer subtypes defined on bases of their ER, PR, and HER2 statuses: triple-negative (25 cases), luminal A (33 cases), luminal B (16 cases) and HER2-overexpressing (HER2-OE, 27 cases). We found that ALDH1 was expressed in 25 of the 101 cases of breast cancer tissues. When the analysis was stratified, we found that the expression of ALDH1 varied significantly among the 4 subtypes, with a higher expression in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC, p=0.003) than in the other 3 subtypes. In a series of breast cancer cell lines, we also confirmed that ALDH1 activity was mainly found in TNBC cell lines compared with non-TNBC ones (15.6%+/-2.45% vs 5.5%+/-2.58%, p=0.026). These data support the concept that the expression of ALDH1 is higher in TNBC than non-TNBC, which may be clinically meaningful for a better understanding of the poor prognosis of TNBC patients.
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