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SST gene hypermethylation acts as a pan-cancer marker for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and multiple other tumors: toward its use for blood-based diagnosis

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MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY
卷 14, 期 6, 页码 1252-1267

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.12684

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biomarker; DNA methylation; gene expression; liquid biopsy; pancreatic cancer; solid tumors; somatostatin

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  1. German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the PaCaNet consortium [01GS08117]
  2. Heidelberger Stiftung Chirurgie
  3. BMBF [01GS08114, 01ZX1305C, 01EY1101]
  4. Integrated European Platform for Pancreas Cancer Research (EU COST Action) [BM1204]

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Aberrant DNA methylation is often involved in carcinogenesis. Our initial goal was to identify DNA methylation biomarkers associated with pancreatic cancer. A genomewide methylation study was performed on DNA from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and endocrine pancreas tumors. Validation of DNA methylation patterns and concomitant alterations in expression of gene candidates was performed on patient samples and pancreatic cancer cell lines. Furthermore, validation was done on independent data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). Finally, droplet digital PCR was employed to detect DNA methylation marks in cell-free (cf) DNA isolated from plasma samples of PDAC patients and cancer-free blood donors. Hypermethylation of the SST gene (encoding somatostatin) and concomitant downregulation of its expression were discovered in PDAC and endocrine tumor tissues while not being present in chronic pancreatitis (inflamed) tissues and normal pancreas. Fittingly, treatment with a somatostatin agonist (octreotide) reduced cell proliferation and migration of pancreatic cancer cells. Diagnostic performance of SST methylation in a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was 100% and 89% for tissue and plasma samples, respectively. A large body of TCGA and GEO data confirmed SST hypermethylation and downregulation in PDAC and showed a similar effect in a broad spectrum of other tumor entities. SST promoter methylation represents a sensitive and promising molecular, pan-cancer biomarker detectable in tumor tissue, and liquid biopsy samples.

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