期刊
HUMAN MUTATION
卷 32, 期 1, 页码 44-50出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21374
关键词
MET; tyrosine kinase; somatic mutation; invasive growth; metastases
资金
- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC)
- Fondazione Cariparo
Cancer of unknown primary origin (CUP) defines metastatic disease of unknown origin, accounting for 3-5% of all cancers. Growing evidence demonstrates that inappropriate execution of a genetic program named invasive growth, driven by the MET oncogene, is implicated in the metastatic process. MET activation in cancers is mainly consequent to overexpression, whereas mutations are rarely found. We reasoned that the occurrence of MET somatic mutations might sustain premature occult dissemination of cancer cells, such as that observed in CUPs. We sequenced MET in genomic DNA obtained from 47 early metastatic cancers. By extensive immunohistochemical analysis a primary site was afterward postulated in 24 patients, whereas 23 cases remained of unknown primary (CUPs). MET somatic mutations were found in seven cases, all belonging to the CUP cohort. Mutational incidence (30%) was thus significantly higher than the expected one (4%), in the absence of high mutational background. Several nucleotide changes were novel and clustered either in the kinase domain or in the extracellular semaphorin domain. Mutated receptors were functional and sustained the transformed phenotype, suggesting that MET activating mutations are genetic markers associated with the CUP syndrome. Hum Mutat 32:44-50, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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