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Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 1/2019

22.01.2019 | Preclinical Study

The combined expression of solute carriers is associated with a poor prognosis in highly proliferative ER+ breast cancer

verfasst von: Rokaya El-Ansari, Madeleine L. Craze, Lutfi Alfarsi, Daniele Soria, Maria Diez-Rodriguez, Christopher C. Nolan, Ian O. Ellis, Emad A. Rakha, Andrew R. Green

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | Ausgabe 1/2019

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Abstract

Purpose

Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease characterised by variant biology, metabolic activity, and patient outcome. Glutamine availability for growth and progression of BC is important in several BC subtypes. This study aimed to evaluate the biological and prognostic role of the combined expression of key glutamine transporters, SLC1A5, SLC7A5, and SLC3A2 in BC with emphasis on the intrinsic molecular subtypes.

Methods

SLC1A5, SLC7A5, and SLC3A2 were assessed at the protein level, using immunohistochemistry on tissue microarrays constructed from a large well-characterised BC cohort (n = 2248). Patients were stratified into accredited clusters based on protein expression and correlated with clinicopathological parameters, molecular subtypes, and patient outcome.

Results

Clustering analysis of SLC1A5, SLC7A5, and SLC3A2 identified three clusters low SLCs (SLC1A5−/SLC7A5−/SLC3A2−), high SLC1A5 (SLC1A5+/SLC7A5−/SLC3A2−), and high SLCs (SLC1A5+/SLC7A5+/SLC3A2+) which had distinct correlations to known prognostic factors and patient outcome (p < 0.001). The key regulator of tumour cell metabolism, c-MYC, was significantly expressed in tumours in the high SLC cluster (p < 0.001). When different BC subtypes were considered, the association with the poor outcome was observed in the ER+ high proliferation/luminal B class only (p = 0.003). In multivariate analysis, SLC clusters were independent risk factor for shorter BC-specific survival (p = 0.001).

Conclusion

The co-operative expression of SLC1A5, SLC7A5, and SLC3A2 appears to play a role in the aggressive subclass of ER+ high proliferation/luminal BC, driven by c-MYC, and therefore have the potential to act as therapeutic targets, particularly in synergism.
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Metadaten
Titel
The combined expression of solute carriers is associated with a poor prognosis in highly proliferative ER+ breast cancer
verfasst von
Rokaya El-Ansari
Madeleine L. Craze
Lutfi Alfarsi
Daniele Soria
Maria Diez-Rodriguez
Christopher C. Nolan
Ian O. Ellis
Emad A. Rakha
Andrew R. Green
Publikationsdatum
22.01.2019
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0167-6806
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7217
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-05111-w

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