机构：[1]Laboratory of Genetics, West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [2]Laboratory of Cell and Gene Therapy, West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [3]Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [4]Key Laboratory of Obstetric and Gynecologic and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education, Chengdu 610041, China. [5]Department of Pathology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, #37 Guoxue street, 610041 Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 四川大学华西医院[6]Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan 450003 China. [7]Department of Gynecological Oncology, Second People's Hospital of Sichuan (Sichuan Cancer Hospital), Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.四川省肿瘤医院
Background: Ubiquitination is a reversible process of posttranslational protein modification through the action of the family of deubiquitylating enzymes which contain ubiquitin-specific protease 9x (USP9X). Recent evidence indicates that USP9X is involved in the progression of various human cancers. The aim was to detect the expression of USP9X in the progression from normal epithelium to invasive esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) and evaluate the relevance of USP9X expression to the tumor progression and prognosis. Methods: In this study, USP9X immunohistochemical analysis was performed on tissues constructed from ESCC combined with either normal epithelium or adjacent precursor tissues of 102 patients. All analyses were performed by SPSS 13.0 software. Results: We observed that the level of high USP9X expression increased gradually in the transformation from normal epithelium (4.0%), to low grade intraepithelial neoplasia (10.5%), then to high grade intraepithelial neoplasia (28.6%), and finally to invasive ESCC (40.2%). The expression of USP9X was found to be significantly different between the normal mucosa and ESCC (P < 0.001), and between low grade intraepithelial neoplasia and high grade intraepithelial neoplasia (p = 0.012). However, no difference was observed between the high expression of USP9X in normal mucosa and low grade intraepithelial neoplasia (P = 0.369), nor between high grade intraepithelial neoplasia and ESCC (p = 0.115). Interestingly, the most intensive staining for USP9X was usually observed in the basal and lower spinous layers of the esophageal epithelium with precursor lesions which often resulted in the earliest malignant lesion. USP9X expression status was positively associated with both depth of invasion (p = 0.046) and lymph node metastasis (p = 0.032). Increased USP9X expression was significantly correlated to poorer survival rate in ESCC patients (p = 0.001). When adjusted by multivariate analysis, USP9X expression (HR 2.066, P = 0.005), together with TNM stage (HR 1.702, P = 0.042) was an independent predictor for overall survival. Conclusions: Up-regulation of USP9X plays an important role in formation and progression of precancerous lesions in ESCC and USP9X expression levels were significantly correlated with the survival of ESCC patients. Thus, USP9X could be considered as a potential biomarker and prognostic predictor for ESCC.
基金：
Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province, China [2012SZ0136]; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China [81270660]; Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province, China [2011JTD0005]
第一作者机构：[1]Laboratory of Genetics, West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [2]Laboratory of Cell and Gene Therapy, West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [3]Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [4]Key Laboratory of Obstetric and Gynecologic and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education, Chengdu 610041, China.
通讯作者：
通讯机构：[1]Laboratory of Genetics, West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [2]Laboratory of Cell and Gene Therapy, West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [3]Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. [4]Key Laboratory of Obstetric and Gynecologic and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defects of Ministry of Education, Chengdu 610041, China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714)：
Jing Peng,Qian Hu,Weiping Liu,et al.USP9X expression correlates with tumor progression and poor prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma[J].DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY.2013,8:doi:10.1186/1746-1596-8-177.
APA：
Jing Peng,Qian Hu,Weiping Liu,Xiaoli He,Ling Cui...&He Wang.(2013).USP9X expression correlates with tumor progression and poor prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY,8,
MLA：
Jing Peng,et al."USP9X expression correlates with tumor progression and poor prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma".DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY 8.(2013)
