Ojiegbe, S., Joseph, C., Provenzano, E., Caldas, C., Nolan, C., Green, A.R., Rakha, E., Ellis, I.O. and Mukherjee, A.
(2017)
Cell division cycle 25C (CDC25C) expression confers poor prognosis in invasive breast cancer.
In: Belfast Pathology 2017: 10th Joint Meeting of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology and the Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 20-23 June 2017, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Abstract
Background: CDC25C, belonging to the Cdc25 phosphatase family, plays a major role in cell cycle control, impacting on DNA repair and apoptosis. It has been shown that poor prognosis/copy number high Luminal A breast cancers (BCs) are enriched for the Aurora kinase pathway including CDC25C leading to CDK1 activation (Ciriello et al, Breast Cancer Research Treatment, 2013:409). This study examined the associations of CDC25C with clinicopathological and molecular features in BCs including the low grade ER positive cohort.
Methodology: CDC25C mRNA expression was studied in the METABRIC BC cohort (n=1980) and externally validated using online expression datasets [bc-GenExMiner v4.0]. CDC25C protein expression level was assessed immunohistochemically on a large annotated series of BC (n= 1330) and correlations made with clinicopathological parameters and patient outcome.
Results: High CDC25C expression was significantly associated with poor prognostic factors including high grade, large tumour size, medullary like tumours, poorer NPI, ER-/PR- Her2+ status (p<0.001) and was differentially expressed in poor prognosis integrative clusters 5 and 10 (p<0.001). Cytoplasmic CDC25C (c-CDC25C) protein showed positive association with non-NST and non-medullary tumour subtypes while nuclear CDC25C (n-CDC25C) negatively associated with tumour stage (p<0.05). There was no association with ER, PR status, NPI and lymph nodes. However, high c-CDC25C resulted in poor survival at 20 years in the Grade 1 ER+ cohort (p=0.007), while high n-CDC25C showed better long term survival (p<0.001). Pooled CDC25C expression data in the external validation cohort showed an association with poor outcome (p<0.0001, HR = 1.45, 95 % CI 1.28—1.64).
Conclusion: CDC25C appears to be associated with poor prognosis in BC including the Grade 1 ER+ cohort, indicating the importance of further functional analyses.
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| Schools/Departments: |
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Cancer and Stem Cells |
| Depositing User: |
Mukherjee, Abhik
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| Date Deposited: |
07 Jul 2017 09:37 |
| Last Modified: |
12 Oct 2017 23:50 |
| URI: |
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/43999 |
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