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The opposite prognostic significance of nuclear and cytoplasmic p21 expression in resectable gastric cancer patients

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JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
卷 49, 期 11, 页码 1441-1452

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SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-013-0900-4

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Gastric cancer; p21; Prognostic biomarker; Metastasis; Tissue microarray

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81370078, 81001231, 81161120537, 30930080]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK2012840]
  3. Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [20100481165]
  4. Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (Public Health and Preventive Medicine)

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Protein p21(Cip1/Waf1) is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, which plays important roles in cell cycle arrest, senescence, and apoptosis. Interestingly, the nuclear and cytoplasmic p21 executes various functions in the cell. In this study, we investigated the prognostic impact of subcellular p21 expression in gastric cancer (GC). Expressions of subcellular p21 was assessed by immunohistochemistry using a tissue microarray in a training cohort and it went into a second testing cohort and finally to a validating cohort. Prognostic and predictive role of subcellular p21 expression status was evaluated. We also studied the roles of subcellular p21 in GC cell migration and invasion. Nuclear and cytoplasmic p21 protein levels were significantly reduced and increased in GC lesions compared with adjacent non-cancerous tissues, respectively. Low nuclear p21 or high cytoplasmic p21 expression significantly correlated with shorter overall survival (OS), as well as with clinicopathologic characteristics in patients. Multivariate regression analysis showed that low nuclear and high cytoplasmic p21 expression, separately and together, were independent negative markers of OS. Finally, we found that nuclear p21 inhibits but cytoplasmic p21 promotes cell migration and invasion abilities. These findings suggest that nuclear and cytoplasmic p21 protein expression in tumor are novel candidate prognostic markers in resectable human gastric carcinoma, and they exert distinct roles in cell migration and invasion.

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