Analysis of new nucleic acid tumor marker in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus and establishment of diagnostic method of distant metastasis

2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 17591436
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Digestive surgery
• Research Institution: FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: OZAWA Soji FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (10169287)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKEUCHI Hiroya KEIO UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Instructor, 医学部, 助手 (20265838) ; ANDO Takashi KEIO UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Instructor, 医学部, 助手 (10365265)
• Project Period (FY): 2005 – 2006
• Keywords: esophageal cancer / nucleic acid / tumor marker

Research Abstract

Our group established a diagnostic system by CGH (Comparative Genomic hybridization) method using high-density BAC microarrays consisting of 7,600 clones (Japanese human genome BAC library (Keio BAC library)). This semi-quantitative method can detect degree of gene amplification and deletion with high sensitivity, high resolution, swiftness, and simplicity. At first we performed array CGH analysis on eight kinds of cultured cells derived from squamous cell cancer of the esophagus and the vulva (A431). As a result, we detected well-known gene alterations such as amplification of EGFR (7p12) or cyclinD1(11q13) which are the malignant factors for esophageal cancer clinically. In comparison with FLEB 14-14 (prepro B cell) which was a control, the EGFR amplified 2.5 times from 0.98 times, and cyclinD1 amplified 1.37 times from 0.91 times. As well as GFR (7p12) and cyclinD1(11q13), we detected the gene amplification of the 14q21 lesion. Also, we analyzed clinical materials of 50 esophageal cancer using BAC microarray CGH method under IRB approval. Gene amplifications were newly detected on 3q,7q,11p, and 11q that may be candidates for clinically important changes. Finally it was thought that further examination of relation between these newly detected genes and the long-term clinical oncological characteristic is needed.