Furuya Mitsuko, Tanaka Reiko, Okudela Koji, Nakamura Satoko, Yoshioka Hiromu, Tsuzuki Toyonori, Shibuya Ryo, Yatera Kazuhiro, Shirasaki Hiroki, Sudo Yoshiko, Kimura Naoko, Yamada Kazuaki, Uematsu Shugo, Kunimura Toshiaki, Kato Ikuma, Nakatani Yukio
Department of Molecular Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
PLoS One. 2016 Mar 14;11(3):e0151476. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151476. eCollection 2016.
Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHD) is an inherited disorder caused by genetic mutations in the folliculin (FLCN) gene. Individuals with BHD have multiple pulmonary cysts and are at a high risk for developing renal cell carcinomas (RCCs). Currently, little information is available about whether pulmonary cysts are absolutely benign or if the lungs are at an increased risk for developing neoplasms. Herein, we describe 14 pulmonary neoplastic lesions in 7 patients with BHD. All patients were confirmed to have germline FLCN mutations. Neoplasm histologies included adenocarcinoma in situ (n = 2), minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (n = 1), papillary adenocarcinoma (n = 1), micropapillary adenocarcinoma (n = 1), atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (n = 8), and micronodular pneumocyte hyperplasia (MPH)-like lesion (n = 1). Five of the six adenocarcinoma/MPH-like lesions (83.3%) demonstrated a loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of FLCN. All of these lesions lacked mutant alleles and preserved wild-type alleles. Three invasive adenocarcinomas possessed additional somatic events: 2 had a somatic mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene (EGFR) and another had a somatic mutation in KRAS. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that most of the lesions were immunostained for phospho-mammalian target of rapamycin (p-mTOR) and phospho-S6. Collective data indicated that pulmonary neoplasms of peripheral adenocarcinomatous lineage in BHD patients frequently exhibit LOH of FLCN with mTOR pathway signaling. Additional driver gene mutations were detected only in invasive cases, suggesting that FLCN LOH may be an underlying abnormality that cooperates with major driver gene mutations in the progression of pulmonary adenocarcinomas in BHD patients.
Birt-Hogg-Dubé综合征(BHD)是一种由卵泡抑素(FLCN)基因突变引起的遗传性疾病。患有BHD的个体有多个肺囊肿,患肾细胞癌(RCC)的风险很高。目前,关于肺囊肿是否绝对良性或肺部发生肿瘤的风险是否增加,可用信息很少。在此,我们描述了7例BHD患者中的14个肺肿瘤性病变。所有患者均被证实存在FLCN基因种系突变。肿瘤组织学类型包括原位腺癌(n = 2)、微浸润腺癌(n = 1)、乳头状腺癌(n = 1)、微乳头腺癌(n = 1)、非典型腺瘤样增生(n = 8)和微小结节性肺细胞增生(MPH)样病变(n = 1)。6个腺癌/MPH样病变中的5个(83.3%)显示FLCN杂合性缺失(LOH)。所有这些病变均缺乏突变等位基因并保留野生型等位基因。3例浸润性腺癌有额外的体细胞事件:2例在表皮生长因子受体基因(EGFR)中有体细胞突变,另1例在KRAS中有体细胞突变。免疫组织化学分析显示,大多数病变对磷酸化哺乳动物雷帕霉素靶蛋白(p-mTOR)和磷酸化S6呈免疫染色阳性。汇总数据表明,BHD患者外周腺癌谱系的肺肿瘤经常表现出FLCN的LOH及mTOR信号通路激活。仅在浸润性病例中检测到其他驱动基因突变,这表明FLCN LOH可能是一种潜在异常,在BHD患者肺腺癌进展过程中与主要驱动基因突变协同作用。