AIM To detect the expression of Raf kinase inhibitory protein(RKIP) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs) and to analyze its relationship with clinicopatholgical characteristics and prognosis of this disease.METHO...AIM To detect the expression of Raf kinase inhibitory protein(RKIP) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs) and to analyze its relationship with clinicopatholgical characteristics and prognosis of this disease.METHODS Sixty-three patients with pathologically diagnosed GISTs who underwent surgical resection at the Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University from January 2011 to January 2015 and had complete clinical,pathological,and follow-up data were included. Immunohistochemical method was used to detect the expression of RKIP in GIST tissue samples from these patients. KaplanMeier method was used to calculate the survival rate of 60 patients with complete follow-up data,and Cox regression analysis was performed to identify factors affecting the prognosis of patients GISTs to evaluate further the diagnostic and prognostic value of RKIP in GISTs.RESULTS In GIST tissues,RKIP positive signals,manifesting as brownish yellow or brown granules,were located in the cytoplasm or on the membrane. Of 63 tissue samplesincluded in this study,34(54%) were positive and 29(46%) were negative for RKIP expression. Statistical analysis showed that RKIP expression in GISTs was significantly associated with tumor size,National Institutes of Health(NIH) risk grade,and mucosal invasion,but had no significant association with age,gender,tumor location,or the number of mitotic figures. Univariate Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that the 1-,3-,and 5-year survival rates were 94.4%,89.2%,and 80.5% for patients with positive RKIP expression,and 88.6%,68.2%,and 48.2% for patients with negative RKIP expression,suggesting that patients with high RKIP expression had significantly higher survival rates than those with low expression(Log-rank test,P = 0.0015). Cox regression analysis demonstrated that NIH risk grade was significantly associated with the prognosis of GISTs(P = 0.037),suggesting that NIH risk grade is a significant predictor of the prognosis of GISTs. RKIP expression had a tendency to predict the survival of GISTs(P = 0.122),suggesting that RKIP expression may have appreciated value to predict the prognosis of GISTs.CONCLUSION This study demonstrated that:(1) RKIP expression in GISTs is associated with tumor size,NIH risk grade,and mucosal invasion,and low or no expression of RKIP predicts a high malignancy potential;(2) high RKIP correlates positively with the survival of patients with GISTs; and(3) RKIP expression has appreciated value for predicting the survival of patients with GISTs,although it is not an independent prognostic factor in GISTs.展开更多
Objective: The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of up-regulation of Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) on the chemosensitivity of cervical cancer Hela cells. Methods: Eukaryotic expression plasm...Objective: The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of up-regulation of Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) on the chemosensitivity of cervical cancer Hela cells. Methods: Eukaryotic expression plasmid pcDNA3.1(±)-ssRKIP containing human overall length RKIPcDNA was transfected into cervical cancer Hela cell by lipofectin assay, establishing a stable cell line containing a target gene by G418. Expression of RKIP in Hela cells was measured by Western blot analysis. After treatment with cisplatin of different concentrations and intervals of time, the effect of RKIP on the proliferation of Hela cells was evaluated by MTT method. The flow cytometry was used to investigate whether the RKIP could inhibit apoptosis in Hela cells induced by cisplatin. Results: The expression of RKIP in Hela cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP was increased obviously. After different concentrations of cisplatin treatment cells for 24, 48 and 72 h, the growth inhibition rate in Hela cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP was significantly higher than in control cells (P 〈 0.05). With 5 pg/mL cisplatin treatment for 24 h, pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP-transfected Hela cells had an obviously higher percentage of apoptosis (23.2 ± 0.24)% than non-transfected cells (12.4 ± 0.31)% and empty vector-transfected cells (13.4 ± 0.47)%. Without treatment of cisplatin, the percentage of apoptosis for Hela cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP was (5.7 ± 0.12)%, which was still higher than those of the non-transfected cells (2.9 ± 0.21)% and empty vector-transfected cells (3 ± 0.08)%. Conclusion: Higher expres- sion of RKIP gene can improve chemosensitivitv of cervical cancer Hela cells to cisplatin.展开更多
BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs)are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.Tyrosine kinase inhibitors,such as imatinib,have been used as first-line therapy for the treatment ...BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs)are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.Tyrosine kinase inhibitors,such as imatinib,have been used as first-line therapy for the treatment of GISTs.Although these drugs have achieved considerable efficacy in some patients,reports of resistance and recurrence have emerged.Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2(ERK1/2)protein,as a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase(MAPK)family,is a core molecule of this signaling pathway.Nowadays,research reports on the important clinical and prognostic value of phosphorylated-ERK(P-ERK)and phosphorylated-MAPK/ERK kinase(P-MEK)proteins closely related to raf kinase inhibitor protein(RKIP)have gradually emerged in digestive tract tumors such as gastric cancer,colon cancer,and pancreatic cancer.However,literature on the expression of these downstream proteins combined with RKIP in GIST is scarce.This study will focus on this aspect and search for answers to the problem.AIM To detect the expression of RKIP,P-ERK,and P-MEK protein in GIST and to analyze their relationship with clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of this disease.Try to establish a new prognosis evaluation model using RKIP and PERK in combination with analysis and its prognosis evaluation efficacy.METHODS The research object of our experiment was 66 pathologically diagnosed GIST patients with complete clinical and follow-up information.These patients received surgical treatment at China Medical University Affiliated Hospital from January 2015 to January 2020.Immunohistochemical method was used to detect the expression of RKIP,PERK,and P-MEK proteins in GIST tissue samples from these patients.Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate the survival rate of 63 patients with complete follow-up data.A Nomogram was used to represent the new prognostic evaluation model.The Cox multivariate regression analysis was conducted separately for each set of risk evaluation factors,based on two risk classification systems[the new risk grade model vs the modified National Institutes of Health(NIH)2008 risk classification system].Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curves were used for evaluating the accuracy and efficiency of the two prognostic evaluation systems.RESULTS In GIST tissues,RKIP protein showed positive expression in the cytoplasm and cell membrane,appearing as brownish-yellow or brown granules.The expression of RKIP was related to GIST tumor size,NIH grade,and mucosal invasion.P-ERK protein exhibited heterogeneous distribution in GIST cells,mainly in the cytoplasm,with occasional presence in the nucleus,and appeared as brownish-yellow granules,and the expression of P-ERK protein was associated with GIST tumor size,mitotic count,mucosal invasion,and NIH grade.Meanwhile,RKIP protein expression was negatively correlated with P-ERK expression.The results in COX multivariate regression analysis showed that RKIP protein expression was not an independent risk factor for tumor prognosis.However,RKIP combined with P-ERK protein expression were identified as independent risk factors for prognosis with statistical significance.Furthermore,we establish a new prognosis evaluation model using RKIP and P-ERK in combination and obtained the nomogram of the new prognosis evaluation model.ROC curve analysis also showed that the new evaluation model had better prognostic performance than the modified NIH 2008 risk classification system.CONCLUSION Our experimental results showed that the expression of RKIP and P-ERK proteins in GIST was associated with tumor size,NIH 2008 staging,and tumor invasion,and P-ERK expression was also related to mitotic count.The expression of the two proteins had a certain negative correlation.The combined expression of RKIP and P-ERK proteins can serve as an independent risk factor for predicting the prognosis of GIST patients.The new risk assessment model incorporating RKIP and P-ERK has superior evaluation efficacy and is worth further practical application to validate.展开更多
目的:探讨RKIP在Ⅱ期结直肠癌中的表达及其与患者预后的关系。方法:收集130例Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者的术后组织标本,采用免疫组织化学SP法检测RKIP在原发肿瘤组织及癌旁组织中的表达,结合患者临床病理特征分析RKIP的表达水平与Ⅱ期结直肠癌...目的:探讨RKIP在Ⅱ期结直肠癌中的表达及其与患者预后的关系。方法:收集130例Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者的术后组织标本,采用免疫组织化学SP法检测RKIP在原发肿瘤组织及癌旁组织中的表达,结合患者临床病理特征分析RKIP的表达水平与Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者预后的关系。结果:结直肠癌组织中RKIP的表达水平显著低于相应癌旁组织(P<0.001)。与无复发转移患者相比,复发转移患者癌组织中RKIP的表达明显降低(P=0.034)。RKIP高表达组的10年无疾病进展生存率明显优于RKIP低/中表达组(89% vs 75%,P=0.032);与RKIP低/中表达组相比,RKIP高表达组的10年总生存期有延长趋势,但无统计学意义(71%vs88%,P=0.058)。RKIP表达下降(HR 0.37;95%CI:0.13~0.99;P=0.040)和术前CEA水平升高(HR 3.50;95%CI:1.30~9.37;P=0.013)是Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者术后复发转移的危险因素。结论:RKIP在Ⅱ期结直肠癌原发肿瘤组织中表达下调,高表达患者无疾病进展生存期明显延长,提示RKIP表达水平是Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者术后复发转移的重要预后因素。展开更多
文摘AIM To detect the expression of Raf kinase inhibitory protein(RKIP) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs) and to analyze its relationship with clinicopatholgical characteristics and prognosis of this disease.METHODS Sixty-three patients with pathologically diagnosed GISTs who underwent surgical resection at the Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University from January 2011 to January 2015 and had complete clinical,pathological,and follow-up data were included. Immunohistochemical method was used to detect the expression of RKIP in GIST tissue samples from these patients. KaplanMeier method was used to calculate the survival rate of 60 patients with complete follow-up data,and Cox regression analysis was performed to identify factors affecting the prognosis of patients GISTs to evaluate further the diagnostic and prognostic value of RKIP in GISTs.RESULTS In GIST tissues,RKIP positive signals,manifesting as brownish yellow or brown granules,were located in the cytoplasm or on the membrane. Of 63 tissue samplesincluded in this study,34(54%) were positive and 29(46%) were negative for RKIP expression. Statistical analysis showed that RKIP expression in GISTs was significantly associated with tumor size,National Institutes of Health(NIH) risk grade,and mucosal invasion,but had no significant association with age,gender,tumor location,or the number of mitotic figures. Univariate Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that the 1-,3-,and 5-year survival rates were 94.4%,89.2%,and 80.5% for patients with positive RKIP expression,and 88.6%,68.2%,and 48.2% for patients with negative RKIP expression,suggesting that patients with high RKIP expression had significantly higher survival rates than those with low expression(Log-rank test,P = 0.0015). Cox regression analysis demonstrated that NIH risk grade was significantly associated with the prognosis of GISTs(P = 0.037),suggesting that NIH risk grade is a significant predictor of the prognosis of GISTs. RKIP expression had a tendency to predict the survival of GISTs(P = 0.122),suggesting that RKIP expression may have appreciated value to predict the prognosis of GISTs.CONCLUSION This study demonstrated that:(1) RKIP expression in GISTs is associated with tumor size,NIH risk grade,and mucosal invasion,and low or no expression of RKIP predicts a high malignancy potential;(2) high RKIP correlates positively with the survival of patients with GISTs; and(3) RKIP expression has appreciated value for predicting the survival of patients with GISTs,although it is not an independent prognostic factor in GISTs.
基金Supported by a grant from the Qingdao Public Sphere Sci-technical Support Project(No.09-1-1-13-nsh)
文摘Objective: The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of up-regulation of Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) on the chemosensitivity of cervical cancer Hela cells. Methods: Eukaryotic expression plasmid pcDNA3.1(±)-ssRKIP containing human overall length RKIPcDNA was transfected into cervical cancer Hela cell by lipofectin assay, establishing a stable cell line containing a target gene by G418. Expression of RKIP in Hela cells was measured by Western blot analysis. After treatment with cisplatin of different concentrations and intervals of time, the effect of RKIP on the proliferation of Hela cells was evaluated by MTT method. The flow cytometry was used to investigate whether the RKIP could inhibit apoptosis in Hela cells induced by cisplatin. Results: The expression of RKIP in Hela cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP was increased obviously. After different concentrations of cisplatin treatment cells for 24, 48 and 72 h, the growth inhibition rate in Hela cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP was significantly higher than in control cells (P 〈 0.05). With 5 pg/mL cisplatin treatment for 24 h, pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP-transfected Hela cells had an obviously higher percentage of apoptosis (23.2 ± 0.24)% than non-transfected cells (12.4 ± 0.31)% and empty vector-transfected cells (13.4 ± 0.47)%. Without treatment of cisplatin, the percentage of apoptosis for Hela cells transfected with pcDNA3.1-ssRKIP was (5.7 ± 0.12)%, which was still higher than those of the non-transfected cells (2.9 ± 0.21)% and empty vector-transfected cells (3 ± 0.08)%. Conclusion: Higher expres- sion of RKIP gene can improve chemosensitivitv of cervical cancer Hela cells to cisplatin.
基金Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province,No.2020-MS-148。
文摘BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GISTs)are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.Tyrosine kinase inhibitors,such as imatinib,have been used as first-line therapy for the treatment of GISTs.Although these drugs have achieved considerable efficacy in some patients,reports of resistance and recurrence have emerged.Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2(ERK1/2)protein,as a member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase(MAPK)family,is a core molecule of this signaling pathway.Nowadays,research reports on the important clinical and prognostic value of phosphorylated-ERK(P-ERK)and phosphorylated-MAPK/ERK kinase(P-MEK)proteins closely related to raf kinase inhibitor protein(RKIP)have gradually emerged in digestive tract tumors such as gastric cancer,colon cancer,and pancreatic cancer.However,literature on the expression of these downstream proteins combined with RKIP in GIST is scarce.This study will focus on this aspect and search for answers to the problem.AIM To detect the expression of RKIP,P-ERK,and P-MEK protein in GIST and to analyze their relationship with clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of this disease.Try to establish a new prognosis evaluation model using RKIP and PERK in combination with analysis and its prognosis evaluation efficacy.METHODS The research object of our experiment was 66 pathologically diagnosed GIST patients with complete clinical and follow-up information.These patients received surgical treatment at China Medical University Affiliated Hospital from January 2015 to January 2020.Immunohistochemical method was used to detect the expression of RKIP,PERK,and P-MEK proteins in GIST tissue samples from these patients.Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate the survival rate of 63 patients with complete follow-up data.A Nomogram was used to represent the new prognostic evaluation model.The Cox multivariate regression analysis was conducted separately for each set of risk evaluation factors,based on two risk classification systems[the new risk grade model vs the modified National Institutes of Health(NIH)2008 risk classification system].Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curves were used for evaluating the accuracy and efficiency of the two prognostic evaluation systems.RESULTS In GIST tissues,RKIP protein showed positive expression in the cytoplasm and cell membrane,appearing as brownish-yellow or brown granules.The expression of RKIP was related to GIST tumor size,NIH grade,and mucosal invasion.P-ERK protein exhibited heterogeneous distribution in GIST cells,mainly in the cytoplasm,with occasional presence in the nucleus,and appeared as brownish-yellow granules,and the expression of P-ERK protein was associated with GIST tumor size,mitotic count,mucosal invasion,and NIH grade.Meanwhile,RKIP protein expression was negatively correlated with P-ERK expression.The results in COX multivariate regression analysis showed that RKIP protein expression was not an independent risk factor for tumor prognosis.However,RKIP combined with P-ERK protein expression were identified as independent risk factors for prognosis with statistical significance.Furthermore,we establish a new prognosis evaluation model using RKIP and P-ERK in combination and obtained the nomogram of the new prognosis evaluation model.ROC curve analysis also showed that the new evaluation model had better prognostic performance than the modified NIH 2008 risk classification system.CONCLUSION Our experimental results showed that the expression of RKIP and P-ERK proteins in GIST was associated with tumor size,NIH 2008 staging,and tumor invasion,and P-ERK expression was also related to mitotic count.The expression of the two proteins had a certain negative correlation.The combined expression of RKIP and P-ERK proteins can serve as an independent risk factor for predicting the prognosis of GIST patients.The new risk assessment model incorporating RKIP and P-ERK has superior evaluation efficacy and is worth further practical application to validate.
文摘目的:探讨RKIP在Ⅱ期结直肠癌中的表达及其与患者预后的关系。方法:收集130例Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者的术后组织标本,采用免疫组织化学SP法检测RKIP在原发肿瘤组织及癌旁组织中的表达,结合患者临床病理特征分析RKIP的表达水平与Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者预后的关系。结果:结直肠癌组织中RKIP的表达水平显著低于相应癌旁组织(P<0.001)。与无复发转移患者相比,复发转移患者癌组织中RKIP的表达明显降低(P=0.034)。RKIP高表达组的10年无疾病进展生存率明显优于RKIP低/中表达组(89% vs 75%,P=0.032);与RKIP低/中表达组相比,RKIP高表达组的10年总生存期有延长趋势,但无统计学意义(71%vs88%,P=0.058)。RKIP表达下降(HR 0.37;95%CI:0.13~0.99;P=0.040)和术前CEA水平升高(HR 3.50;95%CI:1.30~9.37;P=0.013)是Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者术后复发转移的危险因素。结论:RKIP在Ⅱ期结直肠癌原发肿瘤组织中表达下调,高表达患者无疾病进展生存期明显延长,提示RKIP表达水平是Ⅱ期结直肠癌患者术后复发转移的重要预后因素。