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CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS
Volume 166, Issue 2, Pages 95-100Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2005.10.009
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Chondrosarcomas are the second most common primary malignant tumor of bone. Chemotherapy for conventional chondrosarcomas is generally ineffective. Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) is a ubiquitous enzyme, essential in the salvage pathway of adenine and in methionine synthesis. MTAP-deficient cells are more susceptible than wild-type cells to pharmacologic inhibitors of de novo purine synthesis. Homozygous deletions of MTAP have been reported in hematologic and solid tumor malignancies. Based on these observations, we investigated the frequency of MTAP deletions in conventional, grade 11 chondrosarcomas by fluorescence in Situ hybridization (FISH) analysis: 23 conventional, grade 11 chondrosarcoma patient samples front the Cleveland Clinic Foundation were analyzed for MTAP deletions. Nuclei were successfully extracted from 14 of 23 samples (61% evaluable) for FISH analysis: 7 of 14 samples (50%) showed either homozygous or hemizygous deletion of the MTAP gene, 6 of 14 (43%) failed to show deletion, and I of 14 (7%) was inconclusive. These findings Suggest that approximately one-half of conventional, grade 11 chondrosarcomas may be preferentially sensitive to pharmacologic inhibitors of de novo purine synthesis. The present Study led to development by the Intergroup Coalition Against Sarcomas of a phase II trial of pemetrexed, a multitargeted anti-folate, for advanced chondrosarcomas. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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