Abstract:
:Retinoblastoma (RB), the most common intra-ocular malignancy in children under 5 years of age, has an estimated incidence of about 2000 a year in India, where most cases are in advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. Newer therapeutic approaches would reduce the morbidity of chemotherapy in children with RB. Fatty Acid Synthase (FASN), a lipogenic multi-enzyme complex, is minimally expressed in normal human tissues and over expressed in many cancers, making it an attractive target for cancer therapy. We analyzed RB tissues for FASN protein expression by immunohistochemistry, western blot, and ELISA, and FASN mRNA expression by RT-PCR. FASN expression was correlated with the clinico-pathological characteristics of the tumors. FASN immunostaining was positive in all the 44 RB tissues analyzed (100%). However, FASN expression was heterogeneous within the tumor samples. Tumors with invasion of choroid, optic nerve, orbit and/or retinal pigment epithelium showed significantly higher FASN immunoreactivity than the tumors without invasion (P<0.05), supported by western analysis (P<0.05). FASN expression was significantly high in poorly differentiated retinoblastomas (P<0.05). FASN protein and FASN mRNA estimated by ELISA and RT-PCR respectively showed multi-fold expression over the non-neoplastic muller glial cells that varied quantitatively between tumor tissues. FASN mRNA over-expression was substantially lower than the corresponding FASN protein expression values. The present study reports (i) markedly high expression of FASN protein in poorly differentiated and in invasive retinoblastomas, and (ii) multi-fold over-expression of FASN mRNA and protein in RB tissues, although at varying levels, indicating FASN to be a potential therapeutic target in retinoblastoma management.
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Exp Mol Patholjournal_title
Experimental and molecular pathologyauthors
Vandhana S,Deepa PR,Jayanthi U,Biswas J,Krishnakumar Sdoi
10.1016/j.yexmp.2010.11.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-02-01 00:00:00pages
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0014-4800issn
1096-0945pii
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