Frequent β-catenin abnormalities in bone and soft-tissue tumors

Japanese Journal of Cancer Research

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-209

  Iwao, Kyoko ^a   Miyoshi, Yasuo ^a   Nawa, Gen ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^b   Ochi, Takahiro ^a   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone tumor; Mutation; Soft tissue tumor; Catenin

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BETA CATENIN; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CODON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MISSENSE MUTATION; OSTEOSARCOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0033052527     PISSN: 09105050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1999.tb00734.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Enzinger, F. M., Lattes, R. and Torloni, R. Histologic typing of soft-tissue tumors. In "International Classification of Tumors 3" (1969). WHO, Geneva.
2. Toguchida, J., Yamaguchi, T., Ritchie, B., Beauchamp, R. L., Dayton, S. H. and Herrera, G. E. Mutation spectrum of the p53 gene in bone and soft-tissue sarcomas. Cancer Res., 52, 6194-6199 (1992).
3. Reissmann, P. T., Simon, M. A., Lee, W. H. and Slamon, D. J. Studies of the retinoblastoma gene in human sarcomas. Oncogene, 4, 839-843 (1989).
4. Miller, C. W., Aslo, A., Won, A., Tan, M., Lampkin, B. and Koeffler, H. P. Alterations of the p53, Rb and MDM2 genes in osteosarcoma. J. Cancer Res. Clin. Oncol., 122, 559-565 (1996).
5. Barrios, C., Castresana, J. S., Ruiz, J. and Kreicbergs, A. Amplification of the c-myc proto-oncogene in soft tissue sarcomas. Oncology, 51, 13-17 (1994).
6. Ozaki, T., Ikeda, S., Kawai, A., Inoue, H. and Oda, T. Alterations of retinoblastoma susceptible gene accompanied by c-myc amplification in human bone and soft tissue tumors. Cell Mol. Biol. (Noisy-le-grand), 39, 235-242 (1993).
7. Leach, F. S., Tokino, T., Meltzer, P., Burrell, M., Oliner, J. D., Smith, S., Hill, D. E., Sidransky, D., Kinzler, K. W. and Vogelstein, B. p53 mutation and MDM2 amplification in human soft tissue sarcomas. Cancer Res., 53, 2231-2234 (1993).
8. Wilke, W., Maillet, M. and Robinson, R. H-ras-1 point mutations in soft tissue sarcomas. Mod. Pathol., 6, 129-132 (1993).
9. Bohle, R. M., Brettreich, S., Repp, R., Borkhardt, A., Kosmehl, H. and Altmannsberger, H. M. Single somatic ras gene point mutation in soft tissue malignant fibrous histiocytomas. Am. J. Pathol., 148, 731-738 (1996).
10. Sen-Gupta, S., Van der Luijt, R. B., Bowles, L. V., Meera Khan, P. and Delhanty, J. D. Somatic mutation of APC gene in desmoid tumour in familial adenomatous polyposis. Lancet, 342, 552-553 (1993).
11. Palmirotta, R., Curia, M. C., Esposito, D. L., Valanzano, R., Messerini, L., Ficari, F., Brandi, M. L., Tonelli, F., Mariani-Costantini, R., Battista, P. and Came, A. Novel mutations and inactivation of both alleles of the APC gene in desmoid tumors. Hum. Mol. Genet., 4, 1979-1981 (1995).
12. Alman, B. A., Li, C., Pajerski, M. E., Diaz-Cano, S. and Wolfe, H. J. Increased β-catenin protein and somatic APC mutations in sporadic aggressive fibromatoses (desmoid tumors). Am. J. Pathol., 151, 329-334 (1997).
13. Miyaki, M., Konishi, M., Kikuchi-Yanoshita, R., Enomoto, M., Tanaka, K., Takahashi, H., Muraoka, M., Mori, T., Konishi, F. and Iwama, T. Coexistence of somatic and germ-line mutations of APC gene in desmoid tumors. Cancer Res., 53, 5079-5082 (1993).
14. Gurbuz, A. K., Giardiello, F. M., Petersen, G. M., Krush, A. J., Offerhaus, G. J., Booker, S. V., Kerr, M. C. and Hamilton, S. R. Desmoid tumours in familial adenomatous polyposis. Gut, 35, 377-381 (1994).
15. Munemitsu, S., Albert, I., Souza, B., Rubinfeld, B. and Polakis, P. Regulation of intracellular β-catenin levels by the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor-suppressor protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 92, 3046-3050 (1995).
16. Morin, P. J., Sparks, A. B., Korinek, V., Barker, N., Clevers, H., Vogelstein, B. and Kinzler, K. W. Activation of β-catenin-Tcf signaling in colon cancer by mutations in β-catenin or APC. Science, 275, 1787-1790 (1997).
17. Soler, A. P., Johnson, K. R., Wheelock, M. J. and Knudsen, K. A. Rhabdomyosarcoma-derived cell lines exhibit aberrant expression of the cell-cell adhesion molecules N-CAM, N-cadherin, and cadherin-associated proteins. Exp. Cell Res., 208, 84-93 (1993).
18. Iwao, K., Nakamori, S., Kameyama, M., Imaoka, S., Kinoshita, M., Fukui, T., Ishiguro, S., Nakamura, Y. and Miyoshi, Y. Activation of the β-catenin gene by interstitial deletions involving exon 3 in primary colorectal carcinomas without adenomatous polyposis coli mutations. Cancer Res., 58, 1021-1026 (1998).
19. Molenaar, M., Wetering, M., Oosterwegel, M., Peterson-Maduro, J., Goldsave, S., Korinek, V., Roose, J., Destree, O. and Clevers, H. XTcf-3 transcription factor mediates β-calenin-induced axis formation in Xenopus embryos. Cell, 86, 391-399 (1996).
20. Behrens, J., Kries, J. P., Kühl, M., Bruhn, L., Wedlich, D., Grosschedl, R. and Birchmeier, W. Functional interaction of β-catenin with the transcription factor LEF-1. Nature, 382, 638-642 (1996).
21. Whitehead, I., Kirk, H. and Kay, R. Expression cloning of oncogenes by retroviral transfer of cDNA libraries. Mol. Cell. Biol., 15, 704-710 (1995).
22. Young, C. S., Kitamura, M., Hardy, S. and Kitajewski, J. Wnt-1 induces growth, cytosolic beta-catenin, and Tcf/Lef transcriptional activation in Rat-1 fibroblasts. Mol. Cell. Biol., 18, 2474-2485 (1998).
23. Kitaeva, M. N., Grogan, L., Williams, J. P., Dimond, E., Nakahara, K., Hausner, P., DeNobile, J. W., Soballe, P. W. and Kirsch, I. R. Mutations in β-catenin are uncommon in colorectal cancer occurring in occasional replication error-positive tumors. Cancer Res., 57, 4478-4481 (1997).
24. Rubinfeld, B., Robbins, P., El-Gamil, M., Albert, I., Porfiri, E. and Polakis, P. Stabilization of β-catenin by genetic defects in melanoma cell lines. Science, 275, 1790-1792 (1997).
25. Korinek, V., Barker, N., Morin, P. J., Wichen, D., Weger, R., Kinzler, K. W., Vogelstein, B. and Clevers, H. Constitutive transcriptional activation by a β-catenin-Tcf complex in APC -/-colon carcinoma. Science, 275, 1784-1787 (1997).
26. Yost, C., Torres, M., Miller, J. R., Huang, E., Kimelman, D. and Moon, R. T. The axis-inducing activity, stability, and subcellular distribution of β-catenin is regulated in Xenopus embryos by glycogen synthase kinase 3. Genes Dev., 10, 1443-1454 (1996).
27. Miyoshi, Y., Nagase, H., Ando, H., Horii, A., Ichii, S., Nakatsuru, S., Aoki, T., Miki, Y., Mori, T. and Nakamura, Y. Somatic mutations of the APC gene in colorectal tumors: mutation cluster region in the APC gene. Hum. Mol. Genet., 1, 229-233 (1992).
28. Palacios, J. and Gamallo. C. Mutations in the beta-catenin gene (CTNNB1) in endometrioid ovarian carcinomas. Cancer Res., 58, 1344-1347 (1998).