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Detection of urinary survivin using a magnetic particles‑based chemiluminescence immunoassay for the preliminary diagnosis of bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma combined with LAPTM4B

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    • Yang Yang
    • Jianjun Xu
    • Qingyun Zhang
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  • Published online on: March 22, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8317
  • Pages: 7923-7933
  • Copyright: © Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

The aim of the present study was to establish a simple step magnetic particles (MPs) based chemiluminescence enzyme immunoassay (CLEIA) for the detection of urinary survivin, and to investigate the diagnostic value of urinary survivin and lysosome‑associated protein transmembrane‑4β (LAPTM4B) in bladder cancer (BC) and renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The MPs‑based CLEIA was developed on the basis of a double antibodies sandwich immunoreaction and luminol‑H2O2 chemiluminescence system. The parameters of the method were optimized and evaluated. Urine samples were obtained from 200 BC patients, 81 RCC patients and 114 healthy individuals, and the MPs‑based CLEIA method was employed to detect their urinary survivin. At the same time, the urinary LAPTM4B levels of the BC patients, RCC patients and the healthy controls were measured. The diagnostic efficiency of urinary survivin and LAPTM4B in BC and RCC was evaluated separately and jointly. A one‑step MPs‑based CLEIA for the detection of urinary survivin with good accuracy and precision was established. The signals were dependent on survivin concentrations in the range, 0 to 200 ng/ml, and the detection limit was 0.949 ng/ml. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) were 0.771 in BC and 0.763 in RCC for urinary survivin. Urinary survivin was correlated with the tumor stage (P=0.002), lymph node metastasis (P=0.017), distant metastasis (P=0.005) and tumor size (P=0.02) of BC; however, no association with the clinicopathological parameters in RCC was observed. The AUCs for urinary LAPTM4B were 0.738 in BC and 0.704 in RCC, respectively. The AUCs for them combined were 0.842 in BC and 0.920 in RCC. The MPs‑based CLEIA was performed well in the detection of urinary survivin. Urinary survivin and LAPTM4B could serve as potential biomarkers for the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC, and in combination they a achieved a greater diagnostic performance.

Introduction

Bladder cancer (BC) and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are two of the major tumors in urinary system. BC is the ninth most common cancer for both men and women (1) and kidney cancer is also among the ten most common malignant diseases in both sexes combined (2), of which the histological type is usually RCC. The urinary protein analysis could help discover non-invasive biomarkers for urinary system diseases (3,4).

Urinary BTA and NMP22 are recognized as putative biomarkers for diagnosis of BC (5), but their applications are limited due to the relatively low sensitivity or specificity (6,7). There is no definitively validated biomarker for diagnosis of RCC recommended in clinical practice so far (8).

Survivin is an important member of the Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein family and the overexpression of survivin can be found in various tumors but barely in normal tissues (9). Urinary survivin has been proven to be a diagnostic marker in BC (10) but the diagnostic value of urinary survivin in RCC has not been fully elucidated. For now, the detection of survivin mainly employs quantitative sandwich enzyme immunoassay technique which requires multiple procedures and a relatively long period. Therefore, establishing a simple step method for the detection of urinary survivin is in urgent need.

Lysosome-associated protein transmembrane-4β (LAPTM4B) is a novel oncogene that was initially identified in hepatocellular carcinoma and LAPTM4B-35 protein was found to be overexpressed in various malignant tumors (11). But the expression of the protein in urine has not been studied yet.

In this study, we established a one-step magnetic particles (MPs)-based chemiluminescence enzyme immunoassay (CLEIA) for the detection of urinary survivin and applied it to the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC. The urine LAPTM4B level was also measured in BC and RCC patients. We explored the combined diagnostic value of survivin and LAPTM4B for these two tumors in order to find a novel biological marker for the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC.

Materials and methods

Chemicals, reagents and apparatus

Incomplete freund's adjuvant (IFA), PEG, horseradish peroxidase (HRP; H1759), sodium borohydride (NaBH4; 10H3440), sodium m-periodate (NaIO4) (38F-0860) and (+)-biotin-N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHSB; HMBD0595 V) were from Sigma-Aldrich (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). Hypoxanthine-aminopterin-thymidine and hypoxanthine-thymidine were from Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY, USA). MPs (Dynabeads M-280 Tosylactivated) with a average diameter of 2.8 µm and the DynaMag-96 Side Skirted Magnet were purchased from Invitrogen Dynal AS (Oslo, Norway). Chemiluminescent substrates were purchased from Ke Yue Zhong Kai Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China). Protein-A/G sepharose (HiTrap Protein G HP) was from GE Healthcare Life Sciences (Buckinghamshire, UK). The human LAPTM4B enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit was purchased from Lifespan Biosciences (Seattle, WA, USA). BCA protein assay kit was obtained from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (Waltham, MA, USA). Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) buffer and bovine serum albumin (BSA) were from ZSGB-Bio (Beijing, China). Tween-20, oxalic acid, glucose, vitamin C, galactose, creatinine, urea, albumin were purchased from Solarbio (Beijing, China). Livin peptide was from Bioss (Beijing, China). The washing buffer was 0.01M PBS containing 0.05% (v/v) Tween-20 (PBST). The antibody diluent was 0.1M PBST with 1% BSA and 4% PEG 6000, and it was used to dilute mAb-coated MPs and HRP-labeled mAb. SpectraMax L microplate reader from Molecular Devices, LLC (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) was employed to detect the chemiluminescence. The IKA® MS3 Digital (IKA, Staufen, Germany) was used for the shaking of the microplates. The white opaque 96-well flat-bottomed microplates were from Nunc (Roskilde, Denmark).

Experimental animals

Female Balb/c mice weighing 18–22 g were purchased from the Laboratory Animal Centre of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The animal experiments were approved by the Animal Care Committee of Peking University (Beijing, China). The animal studies were performed in accordance with the Experimental Animal Management Ordinance approved by the Scientific and Technological Committee of China.

Preparation and purification of monoclonal antibody (mAb) against survivin and preparation of standard series of survivin

The immunization and cell fusion procedure were carried out according to the methods described by Chang et al (12). Hybridoma cell lines (C6 and E6) were selected for ascites production in vitro and the details were carried out as described previously (12). Both the mAbs (C6 and E6) against survivin were first purified by the ammonium sulfate precipitation method to remove most of the hybrid protein and then purified by the protein G affinity chromatography columns. The purified mAbs were then subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis and commassie blue staining. Human recombinant sequence survivin protein MS2-survivin was produced by our laboratory (13). The standard series of survivin were prepared by diluting MS2-survivin stock with 0.01M PBS to reach the desired concentration of 200, 100, 50, 25, 12.5, 6.25, 3.125, 0 ng/ml, assigning to S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7 and S0, respectively.

Preparation of HRP-labeled mAb and anti-survivin mAb-coated MPs

The mAb E6 was selected as detecting antibody and the procedure of labeling it with HRP was performed as described previously (12). The MPs were coated with C6 according to the manufacturer's protocols (Dynal Biotech).

Human urine specimens collection

The urine samples were obtained from Peking University Cancer Hospital (Beijing, China) in 2017. All the cancer patients were histopathologically diagnosed as urothelial carcinoma of bladder or RCC. The staging was determined according to the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classification released by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC; 7th edition, 2010). The grading for BC was made in accordance with the 2004 World Health Organization (WHO)/International Society of Urologic Pathology (ISUP) grading system. Healthy controls were chosen at the Medical Examination Center of Peking University Cancer Hospital. A total of 200 BC patients and 81 RCC were enrolled in the study and the urinary survivin levels of them were detected. The urine survivin levels of 114 age- and sex-matched healthy donors were also measured. The urinary LAPTM4B levels of them were detected simultaneously. Clean catch midstream urine samples were obtained and centrifuged immediately at 3,000 rpm for 5 min. The supernatant was aliquoted and stored at −40°C until detection. This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Peking University Cancer Hospital. The entire study was conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. All of the patients and healthy controls provided written informed consent for participation in the study.

MPs-based CLEIA of urinary survivin and the detection of urine LAPTM4B levels

The procedures of the MPs-based CLEIA are displayed in Fig. 1, and the detailed steps were as follows. First, 50 µl C6-coated MPs diluted in the antibody diluent was added into each well of the microplates. Then, a mixture of 50 µl of either survivin standard series or sample and 50 µl of the HRP-labeled E6 (diluted in the antibody diluent) was added into each well of the microplates and incubated in the shaker for 60 min at room temperature with 300 rpm. After that, the MPs which formed sandwich immunocomplexes were magnetically separated for 2 min and the supernatant containing excess HRP-labeled E6 was removed. Subsequently, the MPs were resuspended in 150 µl washing buffer and washing was performed four times. Finally, the chemiluminescent substrate was added into each well and the relative light units (RLU) value was measured.

The detection of urine LAPTM4B was performed using sandwich ELISA following the manufacturer's instructions (Lifespan Biosciences). The detection wavelength of LAPTM4B was 450 nm by microplate reader.

Development of MPs based CLEIA

We optimized different experimental parameters to gain the widest detection range (RLUS1/RLUS0) and the highest sensitivity (RLUS7/RLUS0). The best dilutions of C6-MPs and HRP-labeled E6 were 1:200 and 1:1,200, respectively. The best reaction condition was at room temperature shaking (400 rpm) for 1 h. The optimal substrate volume was 100 µl per well and the maximal RLUs were observed immediately after adding the chemiluminescent substrate (avoiding light).

Statistical analysis

Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS v19.0 software (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The measurement data were expressed in the form of median (interquartile range). Comparisons of different groups were analyzed by Mann-Whitney U-test for continuous variables. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were created to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency. MedCalc statistical software was employed for the comparison of ROC curves. We employed bivariate logistic regression to obtain the predictive P-values and used the P-values to build a new ROC curve for the two biomarkers combined. Cut-off value was determined by the optimal Youden's index (sensitivity + specifcity-1). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Purification of mAbs against survivin

The mAbs (C6, E6) recognizing different isotopes of survivin were purified. This antibody pair has been tested in a sandwiched ELISA assay. C6 was used as capturing antibody and E6 was detecting antibody. The purity of them would affect the sensitivity and specificity of the proposed method. The purification effect is shown in Fig. 2. There were two straps (heavy and light chains) for each mAb and almost all of the other proteins were removed.

Method evaluation
Standard curve and sensitivity

Under the optimal conditions, a standard curve was obtained by four-parameter logistic curve fitting (Fig. 3) with a correlation coefficient of 0.9983. The sum of the average RLU and 2 standard deviations (SDs) of 10 replicates of S0 was considered as the detection limit. According to the standard curve, the concentration of the detection limit was 0.949 ng/ml.

Stability

The stability of the C6-coated MPs was also investigated, C6-coated MPs were stored at 4°C for 14 days. During this period, C6-coated MPs were taken out on day 1, 3, 5, 7, 14 to detect S1 and S0. As shown in Fig. 4A, the RLU value showed no obvious decrease and the proposed method retained more than 90% of its initial response after the storage of C6-coated MPs for 14 days at 4°C. Therefore, the result indicated that the stability of C6-coated MPs was acceptable within 2 weeks.

Hook effect

As the immunoassay was a one-step procedure, the hook effect was studied. A sample spiked with survivin at extremely high concentration (1,000 ng/ml) was tested using the MPs-based CLEIA. The RLU value turned out to exceed the upper detection limit and showed no decline. Thus, the pseudo-negative can be avoided successfully in the case of high concentration urine samples.

Precision

Three different concentrations of the urine samples were measured 8 times in one assay to evaluate the intra-assay precision. The same samples were analyzed on different days (5 days) using the same protocol (3 replicates per run) to obtain the inter-assay precision. The urine samples were patient pools. The results showed that the intra-assay CV was <7% and the inter-assay CV was <10% (Table I).

Table I.

Intra- and inter-assay variability for survivin.

Table I.

Intra- and inter-assay variability for survivin.

Intra-assayInter-assay


Sample no.No. of replicationsConcentration (ng/ml)CV (%)Days of replicationConcentration (ng/ml)CV (%)
187.076.8056.528.28
2833.634.23532.789.84
3886.713.08586.426.48

[i] CV, coefficient of variation.

Recovery

The accuracy was studied through a recovery test. Different amounts of survivin were added to three human urine samples to obtain high, middle and low distributions and these were detected in triplicate. As shown in Table II, the average recoveries were between 95 and 105%, indicating that the accuracy of the proposed method was satisfactory.

Table II.

Recovery of survivin in human urine.

Table II.

Recovery of survivin in human urine.

Survivin concentration in human urine (ng/ml)Amount of survivin added (ng/ml)Mean measured concentration (ng/ml)Mean recovery (%)
1.1255.8995.39
3030.1596.78
8079.5298.00
1.4656.3998.43
3032.96105.00
8082.89101.78
2.4157.48101.50
3031.0095.31
8078.6295.27
Interferences

The interference of potential endogenous interferents was assessed by overloading three urine samples (survivin=10.96, 59.33 and 93.50 ng/ml). And the results showed that the interferences of a final concentration of 1.6 mmol/l oxalic acid, 2.4 mmol/l glucose, 2.3 mmol/l vitamin C, 350 µmol/l galactose, 1,000 µmol/l creatinine, 500 mmol/l urea, and 600 mg/l albumin were all <10% on the survivin MPs-based CLEIA.

Cross-reactivity (CR)

The inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein family shows similar structural features and different degrees of homology. Survivin and livin are both members of the family and the specificity of the proposed method was evaluated using livin peptide. The average CR for livin over 0–100 ng/ml was assessed (Fig. 4B). The CR was calculated as follows: CR=100 × Csurvivin/Ccross-reactant, where Csurvivin refers to the concentration of survivin determined by applying the tested cross-reactant signal to the dose-response curve and the Ccross-reactant refers to the concentration of livin. The results showed that C6 and E6 did not cross-react with livin.

Linearity-dilution effect

The linearity-dilution effect was studied by selecting a human urine sample with a relatively high concentration of 75.14 ng/ml. It was diluted by S0 to obtain a series of concentrations 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 of the original concentration. Each sample was measured in duplicate. The results were shown in Fig. 4C. As can be seen, the relationship between the concentration of the diluted survivin and the dilution ratios had a favorable linear correlation coefficient of 0.9971.

Reference interval

We collected the urine samples from 114 healthy individuals. Reference interval was determined by nonparametric analysis at 95% confidence level and the upper reference limit was 2.73 ng/ml for survivin.

Comparison with ELISA

The ELISA procedure was performed as described previously (12). The proposed method was applied for the determination of survivin in 90 clinical urine samples and the results were compared with those obtained by ELISA (Fig. 4D). There was a good correlation coeffcient of 0.9901.

Sample analysis
Urinary survivin in BC and RCC compared with healthy controls

As can be seen in Fig. 5A, urinary survivin in BC [3.65 ng/ml (3.42 ng/ml), P<0.001] and RCC [4.23 ng/ml (7.07 ng/ml), P<0.001] displayed significantly higher levels than the healthy controls [1.54 ng/ml (3.10 ng/ml)]. ROC curves were constructed for BC and RCC (Fig. 6A and B). The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.771 for BC and 0.763 for RCC, respectively.

Relationships between urine survivin and clinicopathological characteristics

We analyzed urine survivin levels between different clinicopathological parameters in BC and RCC. The results were shown in Tables III and IV. In BC patients, urine survivin levels were related to the tumor stage (P=0.002), lymph node metastasis (P=0.017), distant metastasis (P=0.005) and tumor size (P=0.02). In patients with RCC, urinary survivin showed no correlations with any clinicopathological parameters listed in Table IV, which was probably due to the limited number of RCC patients recruited in this study.

Table III.

Associations between urinary survivin and clinicopathological characteristics in bladder cancer.

Table III.

Associations between urinary survivin and clinicopathological characteristics in bladder cancer.

Clinicopathological characteristicNo. of patientsSurvivin (ng/ml)P-value
Sex
  Male1503.23 (2.91)0.268
  Female503.27 (3.00)
Age (years)
  ≤60813.89 (3.45)0.064
  >601193.14 (2.66)
Stage
  I+II1033.02 (2.81)0.002
  III+IV972.81 (3.00)
Lymph node metastasis
  No1373.14 (2.71)0.017
  Yes634.00 (3.31)
Distant metastasis
  No1443.11 (2.73)0.005
  Yes564.13 (4.52)
Tumor size (cm)
  <2752.83 (2.53)0.020
  ≥21252.53 (2.53)
Grade
  Low grade433.03 (2.50)0.187
  High grade1483.60 (3.16)
Muscle invasion
  No933.49 (2.72)0.612
  Yes972.72 (2.72)
Vascular tumor thrombus
  Invisible323.81 (4.10)0.441
  Visible282.90 (3.57)
NMP22
  −773.14 (2.57)0.493
  +332.57 (3.58)
Urine cytology
  −233.28 (2.18)0.564
  +283.64 (2.50)

[i] Data are presented as the mean (interquartile range). NMP22, nuclear matrix protein 22.

Table IV.

Relationships between urinary survivin and clinicopathological characteristics in renal cell carcinoma.

Table IV.

Relationships between urinary survivin and clinicopathological characteristics in renal cell carcinoma.

Clinicopathological characteristicNo. of patientsSurvivin (ng/ml)P-value
Sex
  Male594.91 (5.60)0.222
  Female223.52 (9.25)
Age (years)
  ≤60464.15 (10.24)0.630
  >60354.90 (4.49)
Stage
  I+II583.97 (6.68)0.530
  III+IV235.84 (7.29)
Lymph node metastasis
  No663.84 (5.09)0.128
  Yes156.33 (12.05)
Distant metastasis
  No703.84 (5.09)0.238
  Yes116.33 (12.05)
Tumor size (cm)
  ≤3333.16 (10.13)0.273
  >3485.02 (5.22)
Fuhrman grade
  1-2564.15 (6.18)0.790
  3-4184.16 (18.29)
Vascular tumor thrombus
  Invisible703.97 (6.81)0.316
  Visible65.88 (7.97)
Depth of infiltration
  T1644.56 (7.58)0.685
  T2-T4173.57 (8.74)

[i] Data are presented as the median (interquartile range).

Urinary survivin and LAPTM4B in BC and RCC

As shown in Fig. 5B, urine LAPTM4B levels were significantly higher in BC [11.20 ng/ml (46.70 ng/ml), P<0.001] and RCC patients [8.08 ng/ml (21.47 ng/ml), P<0.001] than in healthy controls [3.90 ng/ml (7.91 ng/ml)]. Fig. 6C and D displayed the ROC curves of LAPTM4B for BC and RCC. The AUCs were 0.738 for BC and 0.704 for RCC, which showed no significant differences from survivin (P>0.05). There was no significant correlation between urinary survivin and LAPTM4B (P=0.790). We combined urinary survivin with LAPTM4B in the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC. The ROC curves were shown in Fig. 7, of which the AUCs were 0.842 for BC and 0.920 for RCC. There were statistical differences between the AUCs of LAPTM4B and the combined evaluation (P<0.001 for BC, P=0.0017 for RCC, respectively), statistical differences were also found between the combination and survivin (P<0.001 for BC, P=0.0405 for RCC, respectively). Table V gave the sensitivities and specificities of the two markers evaluated separately and jointly. Taken the parameters above into account, the combination of urinary survivin and LAPTM4B could provide a better diagnosis performance for BC and RCC.

Table V.

Cut-off values, sensitivities and specificities of urinary survivin and lysosome-associated protein transmembrane-4β evaluated separately and jointly in BC and RCC.

Table V.

Cut-off values, sensitivities and specificities of urinary survivin and lysosome-associated protein transmembrane-4β evaluated separately and jointly in BC and RCC.

Cut-off value (ng/ml)Sensitivity (%)Specificity (%)



Factor detectedBCRCCBCRCCBCRCC
Survivin1.972.7183.0072.8460.5371.93
LAPTM4B25.696.1640.5062.9697.3771.05
Combined
  Survivin2.396.2687.5085.1969.385.96
  LAPTM4B5.323.39

[i] LAPTM4B, lysosome-associated protein transmembrane-4β; BC, bladder cancer; RCC, renal cell carcinoma.

Discussion

In this study, we presented a simple step MPs-based CLEIA for the detection of urine survivin. As urine has very complex components and the pH of urine varies, the matrix effect would be a thorny problem (14,15). Some commercial ELISA kits employ sample diluent to solve the problem, but it would take a lot of effort to dilute every single sample. Normally, ELISA costs about 3–4 h and requires multiple procedures including dilution, incubation, aspirating and washing while the MPs based CLEIA could be done within one and a half hours. The MPs based CLEIA needs only one-step shaking and the magnetic separation makes solid-liquid phase separation quite convenient. Compared with ELISA, the proposed method provided simplified procedures and rapidity. A recent study by our colleagues presented a streptavidin MPs based immunoassay (12). Though this method has greatly reduced the consuming time of the whole assay, it still needed multiple procedures and the matrix effect of urine remained inevitable. Compared to that, the proposed method in the present study was a one-step process which made the detection of urinary survivin much more convenient. The relatively small proportion of sample in the whole reaction system volume and the higher ionic strength of the antibody diluent which resulted to better buffering capacity greatly lowered the impact of matrix. Consequently, the method evaluation demonstrated its accuracy and precision. One-step immunoassay is normally faced with hook effect (16,17), but the pseudo-negative result did not appear when testing the extremely high concentration of survivin. This is probably due to the sufficient antibodies coated on the large specific surface of MPs (16,17). In addition, because of less spatial hindrance underwent by antibodies on the MPs surface, the antibody's biological activity could be reserved efficiently (18).

Survivin mRNA measurement (19) and immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of survivin (20) demonstrated the higher expression of survivin in BC. The diagnostic value of urine survivin for BC has been validated (2123), which is accorded with the findings of our study. Employing the proposed method, we also found that urinary survivin was related to the tumor stage, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis and tumor size in BC, which indicated that urinary survivin could also monitor the development and metastasis state of BC. These results are partially consistent with the studies of Chang et al (12) and Gogalic et al (21). The expression of survivin in RCC by IHC technique has been investigeted (2426), but there were few researches about the diagnostic value of urinary survivin for RCC. In this study, we proposed the possibility of urine survivin serving as a potential biological marker for the preliminary diagnosis of RCC. Some researches indicated that in RCC survivin expression by IHC staining was associated with tumor stage and grade (25,27), and another study found that survivin expression was also correlated with lymph node metastasis (26). But in our study, no associations were found between urinary survivin and clinicopathological features in RCC patients. One reason might be the limited number of RCC patients enrolled and the very complex urine composition (28) would probably impose serious impacts on the results. In addition, IHC staining is a direct measurement of suvivin expression of the tumor while the urinary survivin is secreted by the tumor and the protein needs to pass through the glomerular filtration barrier. Thus, the relationships between urine survivin and the clinicopathological features would not be the same as the results of IHC staining of RCC. Interestingly, Baytekin et al (29) found no correlation between survivin expression and stage, but they indicated an inverse correlation between survivin expression and tumor grade. Hence, the relationship between survivin and clinicopathological parameters of RCC should be further investigated.

LAPTM4B was found to be overexpressed in various solid tumors and was associated with the prognosis of the tumors (3033). But the potential diagnostic value of LAPTM4B levels in urine has not been studied yet. In this study, we tested the urinary LAPTM4B in BC and RCC. The results showed that the urine LAPTM4B levels were elevated in the patients compared with healthy controls, and the ROC curves demonstrated urinary LAPTM4B was of certain value for the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC. It is the first time to investigate the possibility of urinary LAPTM4B as a potential biomarker for the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC.

We also found that the combination of urinary survivin and LAPTM4B could give a better diagnostic performance. The AUCs of the combined evaluation was bigger than LAPTM4B or survivin alone for both malignant diseases. Thecombined evaluation showed better sensitivities and specificities. A recent study by Sha Li et al (34) demonstrated that nuclear survivin protein expression were linearly correlated with LAPTM4B in breast cancer. We investigated the urinary survivin and LAPTM4B simultaneously in BC and RCC for the first time. But in our study, urinary survivin did not have correlation with LAPTM4B. Survivin is a 16.5 kDa protein and the molecular weight of LAPTM4B is 35 kDa, which makes them small enough to pass through the glomerular filtration barrier and then could be detected in urine. But there are also a lot of exogenous and endogenous interferences along with the process of urine formation and sample collection (3,35). As a result, the urinary survivin and LAPTM4B could not directly reflect the expression of survivin and LAPTM4B in the tumor tissue, which may explain the inconsistency between the study of Sha Li et al (34) and our findings. This inconsistency might also due to the heterogeneity in different organs. For example, another study in human liver cell line did not indicate the relationship between suvivin and LAPTM4B (36). Therefore, the relationships between urinary survivin and LAPTM4B in BC and RCC need further investigation.

There are three major molecular sub-types of urothelial carcinoma: Urobasal, Genomically Unstable and SCC-like (37). Urobasal tumors show frequent expression of FGFR3, CCND1, KRT5, CDH3 (P-cadherin), CDH1 (E-cadherin) and maintain a urothelial differentiation axis consisting of PPARG/RXRA, FOXA1/GATA3 and anterior HOXA and HOXB genes. Genomically Unstable tumors are characterized by RB1 deletions, TP53 mutations and high ERBB2, CDH1 (E-cadherin) expression. SCC-like tumors demonstrate enhanced expression of KRT5, EGFR and CDH3 (P-cadherin). Both Genomically Unstable and SCC-like tumors show increased proliferative activity via the PLK1-FOXM1 axis (37,38). CCND1 could bind to the survivin promoter region and activate it (39,40). The expression levels of CCND1 and survivin have proven to be elevated in various tumors (41,42). Survivin is a downstream target molecule of Wnt/β-catenin signaling and inhibition of CDH3 (P-cadherin) could induce the down-regulation of β-catenin (43), which suggests a positive correlation between CDH3 (P-cadherin) and survivin expression. Previous research showed abberrant CDH1 (E-cadherin) staining was associated with overexpression of survivin in pTa urothelial bladder carcinoma (44). Survivin promoter interferes with the binding of GATA3 and GATA3 might play a role in survivin expression (45). Tumor suppressor protein pRB can repress survivin transcription through interacting with survivin promoter, which indicates RB1 deletions could lead to elevated survivin expression (46). Wild-type p53 is known to repress survivin expression at both mRNA and protein levels while mutant p53 had little effect on survivin repression (47). It has been proven that EGFR could upregulate survivin expression via the PI-3 kinase pathway (48). LAPTM4B overexpression was found to correlate with EGFR activation (49) and LAPTM4B could enhance and prolong EGFR signaling through inhibiting EGF-induced EGFR intraluminal sorting and lysosomal degradation (50). PLK1-FOXM1 axis regulates the expression of survivin which is one of its down-stream targets (51). Thus, survivin and LAPTM4B are closely related to the molecular sub-types of BC.

In conclusion, we established a novel simple step MPs-based CLEIA for the detection of urinary survivin and applied it to the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC. Urinary survivin was proved to be related to the tumor stage, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis and tumor size in BC, which indicated that urinary survivin could monitor the tumor development and metastasis to a certain degree in BC. Our findings also demonstrated that urinary survivin and LAPTM4B could be of certain value for the preliminary diagnosis of BC and RCC. Additionally, the combination of them would present a better diagnostic performance. However, this study is limited by the sample size and the lack of external quality assessment of the proposed method. A larger sample size is needed to further validate our findings.

Acknowledgements

Not applicable.

Funding

The present study was supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 81572910), The Capital Healthy Development Special Fund (grant no. 2011-1009-03) and The Capital Laboratory Medicine Clinical Characteristic Fund (grant no. Z121107005112004).

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Authors' contributions

YY acquired the data and drafted the manuscript. JX analyzed and interpreted the patient data. QYZ was a major contributor in conception and design, and gave final approval of the version to be published. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The animal experiments were approved by the Animal Care Committee of Peking University (Beijing, China). The experiments involving patient samples were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Peking University Cancer Hospital (Beijing, China). All of the patients and healthy controls provided written informed consent for participation in the study.

Consent for publication

All of the patients and healthy controls provided written informed.

Competing interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Yang, Y., Xu, J., & Zhang, Q. (2018). Detection of urinary survivin using a magnetic particles‑based chemiluminescence immunoassay for the preliminary diagnosis of bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma combined with LAPTM4B. Oncology Letters, 15, 7923-7933. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8317
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Yang, Y., Xu, J., Zhang, Q."Detection of urinary survivin using a magnetic particles‑based chemiluminescence immunoassay for the preliminary diagnosis of bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma combined with LAPTM4B". Oncology Letters 15.5 (2018): 7923-7933.
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Yang, Y., Xu, J., Zhang, Q."Detection of urinary survivin using a magnetic particles‑based chemiluminescence immunoassay for the preliminary diagnosis of bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma combined with LAPTM4B". Oncology Letters 15, no. 5 (2018): 7923-7933. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8317