Cui Yazhou, Li Tianliang, Zhang Denglu, Han Jinxiang
Shandong Medicinal Biotechnology Center, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Health for Biotech-Drug, Key Laboratory for Modern Medicine and Technology of Shandong Province, Jinan, China.
Cancer Invest. 2010 Mar;28(3):242-7. doi: 10.3109/07357900903124498.
It has been suggested that ezrin activation plays a key role in the regulation of cancer metastasis. In this study, we immunohistochemically investigated the expression patterns of total ezrin and its two phosphorylated forms, pEzrin(- Thr567) and pEzrin(- Tyr353), in 66 samples of invasive pancreatic carcinomas and 11 samples of normal pancreas tissues. Positive expressions of ezrin and pEzrin(- Thr567) were detected in most PDAC tissues, significantly higher than that of pEzrin(- Tyr353). Furthermore, overexpression of pEzrin(- Tyr353) in pancreatic cancers was associated with positive lymph node metastasis, less differentiation, pAkt overexpression, and shorter survival times. pEzrin(- Tyr353) may be a potent prognosis predictor for pancreatic cancer.
有人提出埃兹蛋白激活在癌症转移调控中起关键作用。在本研究中,我们采用免疫组织化学方法调查了66例浸润性胰腺癌样本和11例正常胰腺组织样本中总埃兹蛋白及其两种磷酸化形式pEzrin(-Thr567)和pEzrin(-Tyr353)的表达模式。在大多数胰腺癌组织中检测到埃兹蛋白和pEzrin(-Thr567)的阳性表达,显著高于pEzrin(-Tyr353)。此外,胰腺癌中pEzrin(-Tyr353)的过表达与阳性淋巴结转移、低分化、pAkt过表达及较短生存时间相关。pEzrin(-Tyr353)可能是胰腺癌的一个有力预后预测指标。