Correlation of Skp2 with carcinogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and prognosis in colorectal tumors

  • Authors:
    • Jia-Qing Li
    • Fei Wu
    • Tsutomu Masaki
    • Akihito Kubo
    • Jiro Fujita
    • Dan A. Dixon
    • R. Daniel Beauchamp
    • Toshihiko Ishida
    • Shigeki Kuriyama
    • Katsumi Imaida
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  • Published online on: July 1, 2004     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.25.1.87
  • Pages: 87-95
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Abstract

In colorectal tumors, S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 (Skp2) still has numerous important questions unanswered: its expression in adenomas, its correlation with key clinicopathological indices, its association with patient prognosis, its variation in lymph node metastases, and its association with many cell-cycle regulators. To answer these questions in colorectal tumors, Skp2, cyclin A, cyclin B1, cyclin E, CDK2, and Ki67 were immunohistochemically stained in 12 normal mucosa, 36 adenomas, 11 carcinomas in adenomas, 102 primary carcinomas, and 12 paired lymph node metastases; and Skp2 was examined by Western blot in 8 pairs of normal mucosa and carcinomas. Situated in nuclei, Skp2 expression significantly increased from normal mucosa through adenoma to primary carcinoma (p<0.0001), from mild through moderate to severe dysplasia in adenomas (p=0.038), from peripheral adenoma to paired central carcinoma (p=0.0033), and from primary carcinoma to lymph node metastasis (p=0.015), and these increases were confirmed by Western blot. Expression, however, relatively declined significantly in the primary carcinomas showing deep invasion (p=0.0113), lymph nodal metastases (p=0.0268), and poor prognosis for all (p=0.0104) or stage III patients (p=0.0119). High Skp2 was also significantly linked with elevated cyclin A, cyclin B1, cyclin E, CDK2 (in primary carcinomas only), and Ki67 in both adenomas and primary carcinomas. Thus, overexpression of Skp2 is associated with colorectal carcinogenesis and late metastasis to lymph nodes, whereas relative reduction of Skp2 is correlated with local invasion of primary carcinoma.

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Li J, Wu F, Masaki T, Kubo A, Fujita J, Dixon DA, Beauchamp RD, Ishida T, Kuriyama S, Imaida K, Imaida K, et al: Correlation of Skp2 with carcinogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and prognosis in colorectal tumors. Int J Oncol 25: 87-95, 2004
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Li, J., Wu, F., Masaki, T., Kubo, A., Fujita, J., Dixon, D.A. ... Imaida, K. (2004). Correlation of Skp2 with carcinogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and prognosis in colorectal tumors. International Journal of Oncology, 25, 87-95. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.25.1.87
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Li, J., Wu, F., Masaki, T., Kubo, A., Fujita, J., Dixon, D. A., Beauchamp, R. D., Ishida, T., Kuriyama, S., Imaida, K."Correlation of Skp2 with carcinogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and prognosis in colorectal tumors". International Journal of Oncology 25.1 (2004): 87-95.
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Li, J., Wu, F., Masaki, T., Kubo, A., Fujita, J., Dixon, D. A., Beauchamp, R. D., Ishida, T., Kuriyama, S., Imaida, K."Correlation of Skp2 with carcinogenesis, invasion, metastasis, and prognosis in colorectal tumors". International Journal of Oncology 25, no. 1 (2004): 87-95. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.25.1.87