title: Somatic mutation of the Caspase-5 gene in human lung cancer.
abstract: Using cDNA array-based gene expression profiling, we previously found reduced expression of the Caspase-5 gene in highly metastatic subpopulations of a lung cancer cell line. The Caspase-5 gene contained poly(A) repeats in its coding region, an area that has been reported to be mutated in both endometrial and gastrointestinal tumors displaying evidence of microsatellite instability. In order to determine the contribution of Caspase-5 gene inactivation to lung cancer development and progression, the mutational status of the Caspase-5 poly(A) tract in 30 primary lung cancers with distant metastasis and 30 lung cancer cell lines was determined by polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) analysis and direct sequencing. Three somatic mutations of the Caspase-5 gene were found in two out of 30 lung cancer tissues, although no mutations were found in other genes that also contain small nucleotide repeats, such as hMSH3, hMSH6 and BAX. The results of the present study, combined with our prior cDNA array-based gene expression profiling data, suggest that Caspase-5 might be a suppressor gene of highly metastatic potential in lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hosomi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gemma
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hosoya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takenaka
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kudoh
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D020169:Caspases / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011061:Poly A; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D018807:Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011061:Poly A; C099217:CASP5 protein, human; D020169:Caspases