Non-muscle myosin II is an independent predictor of overall survival for cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer

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    • Dan Xiong
    • Yun-Lin Ye
    • Ming-Kun Chen
    • Zi-Ke Qin
    • Man-Zhi Li
    • Hua Zhang
    • Li-Hua Xu
    • Zhen-Zhou Xu
    • Mu-Sheng Zeng
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  • Published online on: August 10, 2012     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2012.1965
  • Pages: 1625-1632
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Abstract

Non-muscle myosin heavy chain IIA (NMHC IIA) plays a significant role in tumor progression and metastasis. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between the expression levels of NMHC IIA and the characteristics, prognosis of patients who were cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer. Real-time PCR was used to examine the expression of NMHC IIA mRNA in 16 paired bladder cancer and the adjacent normal tissues. The expression of NMHC IIA protein in 167 specimens of bladder cancer was determined by immunohistochemistry assay. Statistical analyses were performed to evaluate the association between the expression of NMHC IIA, and clinicopathological features and prognosis. Compared with adjacent normal bladder tissues, upregulated expression of NMHC IIA mRNA was observed in 81.3% of bladder cancer tissues (P=0.011). Moreover, the higher levels of NMHC IIA expression were positively correlated with the histopathological classification (P=0.021), lymph node metastasis (P=0.047) and cancer-related mortality (P=0.030). The 5-year survival rate of patients with higher NMHC IIA expression was significantly lower than that of patients with lower NMHC IIA expression (P=0.004). Furthermore, in multivariate analysis by Cox regression model, high NMHC IIA expression was confirmed to be an independent molecular marker (P=0.047), while grade (P=0.020) and clinical T stage (P=0.049) were also significant prognostic factors. Expression of NMHC IIA mRNA was higher in bladder cancer compared to the adjacent normal tissues. The detection of NMHC IIA protein expression is potentially useful in prognostic evaluation of cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

Introduction

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer and is the ninth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men in the United States (1); it is also the most common urologic cancer in China (2). An estimated 70,530 new cases were diagnosed and 14,680 people succumbed to bladder cancer in the United States in 2010 (3). Although the majority of patients present with superficial bladder tumors, 50–70% will recur and 10–30% will progress to muscle-invasive disease (1). Although organ-confined muscle-invasive bladder cancer was subjected to radical cystectomy according to the NCCN guidelines, bladder-sparing tri-modality is an alternative approach (4). Bladder cancer has a tendency to recur, and with recurrence a few number of cases progress, making the early detection of high-risk patients urgent (1). Clinical stage and histological grade are significant predictors of outcome (5). Tumor number and lymphovascular invasion are also reported to be associated with recurrence after surgery (6). However, few biomarkers were considered as prognostic factors in cystectomy candidates with organ-confined bladder cancer.

Non-muscle myosin II A (NM IIA), which belongs to the myosin II subfamily, is an actin-binding protein and is regulated by the phosphorylation of its heavy and light chains (7). NMHC IIA is a subunit of NM IIA which is central to the control of cell adhesion, cell migration and tissue architecture (7,8). MYH9 gene localized to chromosome 22q11.2 and encoded NMHC IIA (9), whose mutations are responsible for a complex disorder named MYH9-related disease, are characterized by an association of different phenotypic features (10). Although NM IIA has a basic role in processes that require cellular reshaping and movement, such as cell adhesion and cell migration (7,11), only a few studies have evaluated its role in cancer tissues. Its expression has been accounted as a negative prognostic indicator in stage I lung adenocarcinoma (12). Another study of non-small cell lung cancer indicated that overactivation of myosin II could be a factor contributing to metastasis (13). Overexpression of myosin IIA may promote the progression and poor prognosis of esophageal squamous cancer, and this effect may be related to increased cancer cell migration (14). However, there is currently no report on the relationship between myosin IIA expression and bladder cancer.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the expression level of NMHC IIA in bladder cancer and its clinicopathological and prognostic significance. In this study, real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry assay were performed to examine mRNA and protein expression in a cohort of early-stage bladder cancer cystectomy candidates.

Materials and methods

Patients and tissue specimens

For real-time PCR, 16 paired bladder cancer and adjacent normal bladder tissues were collected from patients who underwent surgery between March 2010 and June 2010. In addition, 167 paraffin-embedded specimens of bladder cancer from 88 patients treated with radical cystectomy and 79 patients of bladder-sparing treatment were collected between January 2003 and December 2009 for immunohistochemical assay. Patients with non-urothelial tumor ingredients, imaging of hydronephrosis, metastasis and T3b-T4 disease were excluded from the radical cystectomy group. Clinical staging was carried out according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM Staging System (7th edition, 2010) and histologic grade was according to WHO 1973. The clinicopathological characteristics of cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer are summarized in Table I. Consent from the patients and approval from the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center institute research ethics committee were obtained before using these clinical materials.

Table I

Clinical characteristics of cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

Table I

Clinical characteristics of cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

GroupNo. of patients treated with radical cystectomy (%)No. of patients treated with bladder-sparing approach (%)P-value
Age (years)
 ≤6050 (50)50 (50)0.394
 >6038 (57)29 (43)
Gender
 Male86 (57)65 (43)0.001
 Female2 (13)14 (87)
Size (cm)
 >336 (35)67 (65)0.000
 ≤352 (81)12 (19)
Number
 >369 (57)52 (43)0.069
 ≤319 (41)27 (59)
Clinical stage
 Tis,T124 (45)29 (55)0.191
 T264 (56)50 (44)
Grade
 G1,G233 (54)28 (46)0.783
 G355 (52)51 (48)
RNA extraction and real-time PCR analysis

Total RNA was isolated from 16 pairs of bladder cancer tissues and their adjacent normal bladder tissues using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). RNA was reverse-transcribed performing SuperScript First Strand cDNA System (Invitrogen). The first strand cDNA products were then amplified with GAPDH-specific (F: 5′-CTCCTCCTGTTCGACAGTCAGC-3′ and R: 5′-CCCAATACGACCAAATCCGTT-3′) and NMHC IIA-specific (F: 5′-CCATCACAGACACCGCCTACAG-3′ and R: 5′-CTTCTTGGTGTTCTCCGTCTTGC-3′) primers by real-time PCR and data collection were performed on the ABI Prism 7900HT system.

Immunohistochemistry analysis

Immunohistochemistry was performed as a modification of the method previously described (15). Paraffin-embedded specimens were cut into 4-μm sections and baked at 65°C for 30 min. Following deparaffinization and hydration, endogenous peroxidase was blocked using blocking buffer (3% hydrogen peroxide) and antigen retrieval was implemented in a pressure sterilizer. After the sections were incubated with 1% bovine serum albumin for 30 min at room temperature, the rabbit polyclonal anti-NMHC-IIA antibody (Abcam, Cambridge, UK) (1:2000) was added and set overnight in a wetting case at 4°C. After washing, the biotinylated anti-rabbit secondary antibody was added, followed by streptavidin-horseradish peroxidase complex. The sections were counterstained with hematoxylin before mounting and evaluating. Negative controls were performed using the non-immune rabbit IgG of the same isotype instead of NMHC-IIA antibody.

Statistical analysis

All statistical analyses were carried out with the SPSS 16.0 statistical software package. In the real-time PCR, Student’s t-test was used to analyze mRNA expression between bladder cancer and adjacent normal tissues. The χ2 test for proportion was used to analyze the relationship between NMHC IIA protein expression and clinicopathological characteristics. Cancer-specific survival rates, recurrence-free survival rates and overall survival rates were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared by the log-rank test. The clinical characteristics of patients treated with the bladder-sparing approach and radical cystectomy were compared by the χ2 test and the rank sum test. Prognostic factors were evaluated using the cox regression method. P<0.05 was considered to indicate statistically significant differences.

Results

Detection of NMHC IIA mRNA expression in paired bladder tissues

To investigate the status of transcriptional expression of NMHC IIA in bladder cancer, real-time PCR was performed in 16 pairs of bladder cancer and adjacent normal bladder specimens, respectively. In the real-time PCR analysis, a total of 13 of 16 (81.3%) bladder cancer tissues showed upregulated NMHC IIA expression, when compared with their adjacent normal bladder tissues. Expression of mRNA was found to be higher in tumor tissues than in the paired adjacent normal tissues (P=0.011) (Fig. 1). The relative expression levels were determined as a ratio between NMHC IIA and the reference gene (GAPDH) for variation in the quantity of mRNA. The ratios (bladder cancer/normal tissue) were 4.0, 1.5, 7.3, 2.1, 7.0, 4.5, 3.0, 5.9, 9.6, 3.1, 1.7, 4.2 and 3.3, respectively. This result was in line with the NMHC IIA expression data in two microarray expression profiling reports as deposited in the Oncomine database (16,17). Oncomine expression analysis showed consistent NMHC IIA upregulation in human bladder cancer compared with normal bladder tissues (Fig. 2).

Expression of NMHC IIA protein in paraffin-embedded bladder cancer tissues

Expression and subcellular location of NMHC IIA protein were investigated by immunohistochemistry of 167 paraffin-embedded, archival bladder cancer tissues. Representative staining of NMHC IIA in the cancer is shown in Fig. 3. The NMHC IIA protein staining was localized mainly in the cytoplasm of all tumor tissues and on the cell membrane of some tumor tissues (Fig. 3). Samples with >50% of the cells showing immunohistochemical reactivity for NMHC IIA were considered as positive according to the criteria by Maeda et al (12). Positive expression was further subdivided into weakly positive (Fig. 3B), median positive (Fig. 3C) and strongly positive (Fig. 3D) based on staining intensity. The negative NMHC IIA staining is shown in Fig. 3A. The low expression of NMHC IIA included weakly positive and negative staining. The median positive and strongly positive staining was considered as high expression of NMHC IIA.

Relationship between NMHC IIA expression and clinicopathological characteristics

The relationship between the expression of NMHC IIA protein and clinical characteristics is shown in Table II. Intense expression of NMHC IIA protein in bladder cancer was not significantly correlated with gender, age, tumor number, tumor size, group or clinical stage (P>0.05), but was significantly correlated with the histopathological grade and lymph node metastasis (P<0.05). The high expression of NMHC IIA protein was noted in 54 and 72% of bladder tumors of histopathological grade (G1+G2) and G3, respectively (P<0.05). In addition, NMHC IIA had increased expression in lymph node metastasis positive tumors compared with lymph node non-metastasis tumors, although the cases of lymph node metastasis positive tumors were very few (n=7).

Table II

Correlation between the expression of NMHC IIA protein and clinicopathological factors in cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

Table II

Correlation between the expression of NMHC IIA protein and clinicopathological factors in cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

NMHC IIA expression

CharacteristicsNLow (%)High (%)P-value
Gender
 Male15152 (34)99 (66)0.807
 Female166 (38)10 (62)
Age (years)
 <6010035 (35)65 (65)0.929
 ≥606723 (34)44 (66)
Tumor no.
 ≤312143 (36)78 (64)0.723
 >34615 (33)31 (67)
Clinical stage
 Tis,T15323 (43)30 (57)0.109
 T211435 (31)79 (69)
Grade
 G1,G26128 (46)33 (54)0.021
 G310630 (28)76 (72)
Tumor size (cm)
 ≤310341 (40)62 (60)0.081
 >36417 (27)47 (73)
Group
 BS7924 (30)55 (70)0.263
 RC8834 (39)54 (61)
Lymph node
 N016058 (36)102 (64)0.047
 N1,N270 (0)7 (100)

[i] BS, bladder-sparing; RC, radical cystectomy.

Univariate and multivariate analyses for prognosis of bladder cancer patients

Univariate and multivariate data analyses were carried out using the Cox proportional hazards regression model to investigate the prognostic value of NMHC IIA expression (Table III and Fig. 4). Grade, clinical T stage and high NMHC IIA expression were the prognostic factors to predict a poor prognosis in univariate analysis (P=0.014, 0.008, and 0.004, respectively), however, there was no statistical difference between the overall survival of patients treated with bladder-sparing and those treated with radical cystectomy (P=0.406) (Table III and Fig. 4A-D). By multivariate analysis of the prognostic factors, we confirmed that high NMHC IIA expression was an independent prognostic factor (95% confidence interval: 0.115–0.985; P=0.047), grade and clinical T stage were also two independent and significant prognostic factors for overall survival (P=0.02 and 0.049)(Table III). The survival rate was higher in patients with lower grade and clinical T stage (Fig. 4).

Table III

Univariate and multivariate analysis of potential factors in cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

Table III

Univariate and multivariate analysis of potential factors in cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer.

95% CI for Exp(B)

FactorsCategoryUnivariateMultivariateLowerUpper
GroupBS/RC0.4060.4220.2981.660
T-StageT1/T20.0140.0490.1380.994
Grade(G1+G2)/30.0080.0200.1280.840
Age (years)≤65/>650.2750.1820.7983.278
No.≤3/>30.4430.6600.4973.020
Size (cm)≤3/>30.1610.7140.4962.785
GenderMale/Female0.7670.5890.1982.509
NMHC IIALow/High0.0040.0470.1150.985

[i] BS, bladder-sparing; RC, radical cystectomy.

Correlation of clinicopathological variables and NMHC IIA expression with patient survival in bladder cancer

With a median follow-up of 40 months (3–91 months), salvage cystectomy was performed in 8 patients and 2 died in 19 and 37 months after initial bladder-sparing treatment. The median time after completing bladder-sparing treatment was 24 months (range 4–37 months). The 3- and 5-year overall survival rates of patients who underwent bladder-sparing treatment, assessed by the Kaplan-Meier method, were 81 and 61%, respectively; those of the patients who completed radical cystectomy were 72 and 54% (P=0.406). The association between overall survival and clinical characteristics is shown in Table III and Fig. 4. There was a significantly higher 5-year survival rate in the NMHC IIA protein-low group than in the NMHC IIA protein-high group (P=0.004) (Fig. 4D). In addition, we also analyzed the cancer-specific survival (CSS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) between the two NMHC IIA expression groups in bladder cancer. The CSS of the high NMHC IIA expression group was significantly lower than that of the low NMHC IIA expression group (P=0.03) (Fig. 4E); there was no significant difference between the two NMHC IIA expression groups of the RFS in bladder cancer (P=0.268) (Fig. 4F). Furthermore, we divided the patients into two groups according to the treatment in bladder cancer. For patients treated with the bladder-sparing approach, the overall survival of the NMHC IIA protein-low group was significantly higher than that of the NMHC IIA protein-high group (P=0.046) (Fig. 5A), and the cancer-specific survival of the NMHC IIA protein-low group also showed a higher trend compared to that of the NMHC IIA protein-high group (P=0.063) (Fig. 5C). Recurrence-free survival of the two groups was not significantly different (P=0.648) (Fig. 5E). For patients treated with radical cystectomy, the overall survival of the NMHC IIA protein-high group was significantly lower than that of the NMHC IIA protein-low group (P=0.031) (Fig. 5B), and there was no statistical difference between the cancer-specific survival of the NMHC IIA protein-high group and that of the NMHC IIA protein-low group (P=0.212) (Fig. 5D). Recurrence-free survival of the two groups showed no statistical difference (P=0.413) (Fig. 5E).

Discussion

Bladder cancer carries among the highest costs of all types of cancer, from diagnosis until mortality (18). Patients with the same clinicopathological stage of bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy exhibit considerable variability in survival (19,20). Particularly for cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer, bladder-sparing treatment is a viable alternative. Therefore, there is an urgent need for new factors that can distinguish between patients with an unfavorable prognosis and those with a better prognosis, and optimize individual management.

This study demonstrated that there was a significant increase of NMHC IIA expression at mRNA levels between bladder cancer cells and the adjacent normal bladder tissue. This result was similar to those of previous studies of other human cancers (12,14). Furthermore, intense expression of NMHC IIA in bladder cancer was correlated with its clinicopathological features including histopathological classification and lymph node metastasis. Our results provide a basic concept that upregulated expression of NMHC IIA in human bladder cancer may be important in the acquisition of a poor prognostic phenotype. Of note, the high expression of NMHC IIA is an independent molecular marker for shortened survival time of patients, who were cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer, and it might be a helpful criterion to optimize individual therapy management.

In this study, there was a significantly lower 5-year survival rate in the NMHC IIA protein-high group than in the NMHC IIA protein-low group (P<0.05). The CSS of the low NMHC IIA expression group was significantly higher than that of the high NMHC IIA expression group (P=0.03), however, there were no significant differences between the two NMHC IIA expression groups of the RFS in bladder cancer (P=0.268). For patients treated with the bladder-sparing approach or radical cystectomy, the overall survival of the NMHC IIA protein-high group was significantly lower than that of the NMHC IIA protein-low group (P<0.05), and there was no statistical difference between the cancer-specific survival of the NMHC IIA protein-high group and that of the NMHC IIA protein-low group (P>0.05). Recurrence-free survival of the two groups was also not significantly different (P>0.05). These results suggest that overexpression of NMHC IIA might not affect the initiation of tumor recurrence, but might induce disease progression after recurrence. Therefore, investigation of the molecular and biological changes associated with NMHC IIA expression in course to carcinogenesis and progression can provide new insight into the pathology of the disease and may provide biological factors as new prognostic markers.

NMHC IIA is a major subunit of the actomyosin cytoskeleton and is generally considered to attribute to the contraction of the cell posterior during migration (21). Previous studies have shown that NMHC IIA plays a key role in tumor cell invasiveness, and the EGF-dependent phosphorylation of the myosin IIA heavy chain has a direct function in mediating motility and chemotaxis in human breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 (22). Also, it was reported as a target of SRF, which contributes to invasion and metastasis in breast cancer (23). A recent report suggested that overexpression of let-7f in gastric cancer could inhibit invasion and migration of gastric cancer cells through directly targeting the tumor metastasis-associated gene MYH9/NMHC IIA (24). NMHC IIA has been reported as a decisive protein for cells to invade, indicating that this molecule is a candidate for targeted anti-invasive treatment (25). Our study demonstrated that NMHC IIA had increased expression in lymph node metastasis positive tumors compared with lymph node non-metastasis tumors, although the cases of lymph node metastasis positive tumors were very few. This molecule might reflect the cellular functions of metastasis. Therefore, the exact function of NMHC IIA in bladder cancer, such as metastasis, needs further exploration.

To our knowledge, this is the first report on the overexpression of NMHC IIA in bladder cancer, and it is an independent predictor of overall survival for cystectomy candidates with early-stage bladder cancer. However, as the cystectomy candidates with clinical stage T1 and T2 disease represented a specific and small number of the patients with bladder cancer, the correlation between NMHC IIA and bladder cancer requires more detailed investigation. Moreover, the number of patients with lymph node metastasis in this study was few, therefore the findings require further investigation.

Acknowledgements

This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81072101, 81025014 and 91019015).

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