Acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein-32A (ANP32A) association with lymph node metastasispredicts poor survivalinoral squamous cell carcinoma patients

作者：Velmurugan Bharath Kumar; Yeh Kun Tu; Lee Chien Hung; Lin Shu Hui; Chin Mei Chung; Chiang Shang Lun; Wang Zhi Hong; Hua Chun Hung; Tsai Ming Hsui; Chang Jan Gowth; Ko Ying Chin

来源：Oncotarget, 2016, 7(10): 10879-10890.

DOI：10.18632/oncotarget.7681

• OSCC
• Claudlin-1
• ANP32A
• Slug
• EMT
• slug
• E-cadherin
• vimentin

Acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein-32A (ANP32A) is a multifunctional protein aberrantly expressed in various types of cancers. However, its expression pattern and clinical significance in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) remains unclear. In this study, we immunohistochemically investigated the expression pattern of ANP32A in 259 OSCC patients and the results were correlated with clinicopathological factors using Allred, Klein and Immunoreactive scoring (IRS) system. Our data indicated that high expression of ANP32A was significantly associated with N stage and tumor differentiation status in OSCC patients. High ANP32A expression with N2/N3 stage had an increased mortality risk than low ANP32A expressing OSCC patients with N0/N1 stage. Functional studies revealed that knockdown of ANP32A significantly decreased the migration and invasion ability thereby concomitantly increasing E-cadherin and decreasing Slug, Claudin-1 and Vimentin expression in vitro. These results suggest that ANP32A is commonly increased in oral squamous cell carcinoma and ANP32A protein could act as a potential biomarker for prognosis assessment of oral cancer patients with lymph node metastasis.

• 出版日期2016-3-8
• 单位中国医科大学