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Prognostic significance of KN motif and ankyrin repeat domains 1 (KANK1) in invasive breast cancer

verfasst von: Yousif A. Kariri, Chitra Joseph, Sasagu Kurozumi, Michael S. Toss, Mansour Alsaleem, Sara Raafat, Nigel P. Mongan, Mohammed A. Aleskandarany, Andrew R. Green, Emad A. Rakha

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | Ausgabe 2/2020

Abstract

Background

KN motif and ankyrin repeat domains 1 (KANK1) plays an important role in cytoskeleton maintenance and contributes to the regulation of cell proliferation, adhesion and apoptosis. KANK1 is involved in progression of a variety of solid tumours; however, its role in invasive breast cancer (BC) remains unknown. This study aims to evaluate the clinicopathological and prognostic value of KANK1 expression in operable BC.

Methods

KANK1 expression was assessed at the transcriptomic level using multiple BC cohorts; the Molecular Taxonomy of BC International Consortium cohort (METABRIC; n = 1980), The Cancer Genome Atlas BC cohort (TCGA; n = 949) and the publicly available BC transcriptomic data hosted by BC Gene-Expression Miner (bc-GenExMiner v4.0) and Kaplan–Meier plotter?. The Nottingham BC cohort (n = 1500) prepared as tissue microarrays was used to assess KANK1 protein expression using immunohistochemistry (IHC). The association between clinicopathological variables and patient outcome was investigated.

Results

In the METABRIC cohort, high expression of KANK1 mRNA was associated with characteristics of good prognosis including lower grade, absence of lymphovascular invasion and HER2 negativity (all; p < 0.001) and with better outcome [p = 0.006, Hazards ratio, (HR) 0.70, 95% CI 0.54–0.91]. High KANK1 protein expression was correlated with smaller tumour size and HER2 negativity, and better outcome in terms of longer breast cancer-specific survival [p = 0.013, HR 0.7, 95% CI 0.536–0.893] and time to distant metastasis [p = 0.033, HR 0.65, 95% CI 0.51–0.819].

Conclusion

These results supported that upregulation of KANK1 works as a tumour suppressor gene in BC and is associated with improved patients’ outcomes.

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Background

Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease associated with a variety of morphological, molecular features, outcomes and response to therapy [1]. Although BC outcome has improved over the years, 20–30% of patients develop distant metastasis with subsequent poor outcome [2]. Several mechanisms are involved in BC metastasis; however, the key molecular factors driving metastasis remain to be defined.

KN motif and ankyrin repeat domains 1 gene (KANK1) is located at chromosome 9p24 [3] and is composed of KANK N-terminal (KN) motif, the central coiled-coil domains and the C-terminal ankyrin (ANK) repeats [4]. Notably, KANK1 protein interacts with other associated proteins via the coiled-coil and the ankyrin repeat domains, respectively [4]. KANK1 has an essential role in cytoskeleton maintenance via regulating the rate of cytoskeleton proteins production and controlling actin polymerisation [4]. KANK1 plays an important role in the down-regulation of the Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) pathway [5], which is recognised to be involved in various cellular functions such as proliferation, adhesion, cell differentiations and apoptosis [6]. This allow KANK1 to integrate alongside with β-catenin aiming to regulate its distribution in the nucleus and concentrate its transcription, therefore, affecting the development of cancer [7]. Importantly, several in vivo studies revealed a link between the ROCK pathway and tumour cell metastasis [8, 9] and indicated its role in multiple human cancers including BC [6].

The signalling processes controlled by KANK1 expression are also involved in the regulation of epithelial mesenchymal transmission (EMT) by cooperating with transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) to induce the cytoskeletal reorganisation [10]. KANK1 plays an important role in the development of many malignant tumours. For instance, in vivo KANK1 overexpression reduces the tumorigenicity in lung cancer [11]. Further, in vivo and in vitro studies confirm that KANK1 upregulation in gastric cancer leads to a decrease in the metastatic ability of tumour cells [12]. However, the prognostic significance of KANK1 expression in BC remains unclear. This study aimed to assess the biological and clinical significance of KANK1 mRNA and KANK1 protein expression in BC and the association between KANK1 mRNA expressions with EMT-related genes.

Materials and methods

Study cohorts

KANK1 transcriptomic data

The molecular taxonomy of breast cancer international consortium (METABRIC) dataset (n = 1980) [13] was used to evaluate KANK1 mRNA expression. In the METABRIC, mRNA extracted from primary tumour samples was assayed using the Illumina Human HT-12 v3 platforms (Illumina, Inc., San Diego, USA). Gene-expression data were prepared and normalised as described previously [14]. Furthermore, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) BC dataset (n = 895) [15] was used to evaluate KANK1 mRNA expression. In the TCGA cohort, RNASeqV2 data and clinicopathological information provided by cBioPortal were used [16, 17]. The prognostic value of KANK1 mRNA expression was further evaluated using the online Breast Cancer Gene-Expression Miner v4.0 (bc-GenExMiner v4.0) database (n = 3871) [18] and the Kaplan–Meier plotter (n = 1402) [19].

KANK1 protein expression

KANK1 protein cohort

A well-characterised cohort of primary operable BC was incorporated in this study, in which the cases were collected from patients presented to Nottingham City Hospital, NHS Trust between 1998 and 2006 (Supplementary Table 1). The Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) and oestrogen receptor (ER) status were used to classify patients into clinically relevant groups for management purposes. Based on the NPI, patients were sub-classified into two groups; patients with NPI > 3.4 received tamoxifen if ER status was positive and chemotherapy if ER was negative; however, patients who had NPI ≤ 3.4 received no adjuvant therapy. Patients lacking ER expression (ER) and eligible to receive chemotherapy were treated with classical cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-flurouacil (CMF). Neoadjuvant therapy or anti-Her2-targeted therapy was not used to treat patients in this study. Information of therapy, clinical history and outcomes are prospectively maintained. Outcome data included development and time to distant metastasis (TTDM) and breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) [20]. BCSS was defined as the duration (in months) from the date of primary surgery to the time of death because of BC. Distant metastasis-free interval was defined as the duration (in months) from primary surgical treatment to the occurrence of first distant recurrence. The distribution of clinicopathological parameters between the discovery cohort (METABRIC) and the validation cohort (Nottingham) presented no statistical differences (all correlation coefficients (r) = 0.80, all p < 0.001).

Immunohistochemistry (IHC)

KANK1 antibody (rabbit polyclonal SAB500862; SIGMA Company, USA) specificity was assessed by western blot using human BC cell lysates from MCF7 and SKBR3 (obtained from the American Type culture Collection; Rockville, MD, USA). KANK1 antibody (1:500 dilution) was incubated overnight and showed a single band at the expected molecular weight – 90 kDa and mouse β-actin (A5441, Sigma-Aldrich; Clone AC-15; Sigma, UK) at 1:5000 was used as a house-keeping protein (Fig. 1a).

To evaluate the pattern and distribution of KANK1 protein expression, full-face tissue sections (n = 14), representative of different BC molecular subtypes and tumour grades, were stained. Tumour samples were arrayed onto TMAs as previously described using the TMA Grand Master® (3D HISTECH®, Budapest, Hungary) [21]. The Novolink Max Polymer Detection system (Leica, Newcastle, UK) was used to detect the immunoreactivity of KANK1. Heat-induced retrieval of antigen epitopes was performed in citrate solution (pH 6.0). KANK1 antibody was incubated at room temperature for 1 h (dilution 1:1500).

Scoring of KANK1 protein expression

The stained slides were scanned into high-resolution digital images at ×20 magnification using a Nanozoomer scanner (Hamamatsu Photonics, Welwyn Garden City, UK). KANK1 cytoplasmic immunoreactivity was evaluated using the modified H-score taking the staining intensity and percentage of positivity into account. Staining intensity (0–3) was multiplied by the proportion of tumour cells (0–100) stained with each intensity and final scores were obtained, giving a range of 0–300 [22]. Double scoring was assessed blindly by two researchers to evaluate the inter-observer concordance. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) concordance between both observers was 0.9.

Statistical analysis

SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistic, Version 24.0) was used in statistical analysis. Pearson correlation test was used to evaluate the relationship of KANK1 mRNA expression with the expression of a set of genes known to be associated with EMT and cancer cell migration (CDH1, CDH2, TGFB, TWIST2, TWIST1, ZEB2, ZEB1 SLUG, SNAIL, NFKB1, LLGL2, GSK3B, CRUMBS and CTNNB1). The correlation between KANK1 expression and clinicopathological factors was analysed using Chi-square test. Kaplan–Meier survival curves using the log-rank test were used to assess the prognostic significance of KANK1 expression. Cox proportional hazard method was employed for the multivariate survival analysis. KANK1 mRNA/protein expression did not follow a normal distribution and was dichotomised using median cut-off values (95). The p value < 0.05 (two-tailed) was considered statistically significant for clinicopathological parameters and survival. This work was preformed according to REMARK guidelines or tumour prognostic study [23], and approved ethically approval by the North West–Greater Manchester Central Research Ethics Committee under the title: Nottingham Health Science Biobank (NHSB), reference number 15/NW/0685.

Results

Clinicopathological significance of KANK1 mRNA expression

High KANK1 mRNA expression was significantly indicative of good prognosis as cases with high KANK1 mRNA expression had better BCSS outcome compared to low KANK1 mRNA expression (p = 0.036; Fig. 2a). Similar associations were observed in the bc-GenExMiner v4.0 and KM plotter BC datasets (Supplementary Fig. 1a, b). High KANK1 mRNA expression was also associated with improved outcome when restricting the analysis to subgroups including ER negativity (METABRIC: p = 0.007; TCGA: p < 0.001), HER2 negativity (METABRIC: p < 0.001; TCGA: p < 0.001) and LVI negativity (METABRIC: p = 0.005; TCGA: p = 0.003; Table 1).

Table 1

Association of KANK1 mRNA expression with clinicopathological characteristics in the METABRIC (n = 1980) and TCGA (n = 895) datasets

Parameters	METABRIC cohort			TCGA cohort
	Low KANK1	High KANK1	p value	Low KANK1	High KANK1	p value
	N (%)	N (%)	p value	N (%)	N (%)	p value
Tumour size
≤ 2.0 cm	407 (47)	452 (53)	0.033	112 (47)	127 (53)	0.29
>2.0 cm	575 (52)	526 (48)	0.033	315 (51)	300 (49)	0.29
Nodal stage
Negative	502 (49)	533 (519)	0.14	193 (45)	233 (55)	0.007
Positive	487 (52)	451 (48)	0.14	231 (55)	192 (45)	0.007
Lymphovascular invasion
Negative	437 (47)	493 (53)	0.005	258 (46)	301 (54)	0.002
Positive	344 (54)	291 (45)	0.005	169 (57)	126 (43)	0.002
Histological grade
Grade 1 and 2	433 (46)	507 (54)	0.001	229 (49)	235 (51)	0.62
Grade 3	513 (54)	439 (46)	0.001	180 (51)	172 (49)	0.62
Oestrogen receptor
Negative	211 (44)	263 (56)	0.007	66 (35)	119 (65)	< 0.001
Positive	779 (52)	727 (48)	0.007	345 (54)	294 (46)	< 0.001
Progesterone receptor
Negative	482 (51)	458 (49)	0.3	119 (44)	153 (56)	0.018
Positive	508 (49)	532 (51)	0.3	288 (53)	258 (47)	0.018
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
Negative	817 (47)	916 (53)	< 0.001	254 (45)	313 (55)	< 0.001
Positive	173 (70)	74 (30)	< 0.001	94 (71)	39 (29)	< 0.001

METABRIC the molecular taxonomy of breast cancer international consortium, TCGA the cancer genome atlas

KANK1 mRNA overexpression was associated with higher expression of CDH1 (METABRIC: p = 0.022; TCGA: p < 0.001), CTNNB1 (METABRIC: p < 0.001; TCGA: p < 0.001); however, KANK1 mRNA overexpression was correlated with lower LLGL2 (METABRIC: p = 0.002; TCGA: p < 0.001) (Table 2).

Table 2

Correlation of KANK1 mRNA expression with mRNA expression of EMT-related genes

Gene names	METABRIC cohort		TCGA cohort
Gene names	Correlation value	p value	Correlation value	p value
CDH1	0.052	0.022	0.147	< 0.001
CDH2	− 0.074	0.001	− 0.035	0.31
TGFB1	− 0.043	0.054	− 0.157	< 0.001
TWIST2	0.146	< 0.001	− 0.004	0.9
TWIST1	0.024	0.29	− 0.44	0.2
ZEB2	0.146	< 0.001	0.061	0.075
ZEB1	0.008	0.73	0.016	0.65
SLUG	0.193	< 0.001	0.143	< 0.001
SNAIL	0.014	0.54	0.061	0.075
NFKB1	0.069	0.002	0.057	0.095
LLGL2	− 0.237	0.002	− 0.118	< 0.001
GSK3B	− 0.193	< 0.001	0.094	0.006
CRUMBS	− 0.092	< 0.001	61	0.075
CTNNB1	0.206	< 0.001	0.222	< 0.001

METABRIC the molecular taxonomy of breast cancer international consortium, TCGA the cancer genome atlas

KANK1 protein expression

BC full-face sections showed homogenous cytoplasmic expression of KANK1. KANK1 expression in normal glandular epithelium was uniformly strong (Fig. 1b). KANK1 immunoreactivity of myoepithelial cells was lower than those of glandular epithelial cells (Fig. 1c). In contrast, invasive cancer cells exhibited weaker expression of KANK1 compared to the normal mammary epithelial cells present in some TMA cores (Fig. 1d).

Using the median H-score (95) as a cut-off point, high KANK1 expression was observed in 599/1500 (40%) of tumours (Fig. 1e, f). High KANK1 protein expression was associated with smaller tumour size (p = 0.012) and HER2 positivity (p = 0.007; Table 3).

Table 3

Statistical association between KANK1 protein expression and clinicopathological characteristics of the studies cohort

Parameters	KANK1 protein expression
	Low	High	p value
	N (%)	N (%)	p value
Tumour size
≤ 2.0 cm	382 (47.9)	415 (52.1)	0.012
> 2.0 cm	290 (55.0)	237 (45.0)	0.012
Nodal stage
Negative	408 (50.0)	408 (50.0)	0.46
Positive	263 (52.1)	242 (47.9)	0.46
Lymphovascular invasion
Negative	461 (49.5)	471 (50.5)	0.15
Positive	211 (53.8)	181 (46.2)	0.15
Histological grade
Grade 1 and 2	360 (51.6)	337 (48.4)	0.49
Grade 3	312 (49.8)	315 (50.2)	0.49
Nottingham Prognostic Index
Good prognostic group	198 (47.4)	220 (52.6)	0.22
Moderate prognostic group	361 (52.8)	323 (47.2)
Poor prognostic group	112 (51.4)	106 (48.6)
Oestrogen receptor
Negative	133 (47.3)	148 (52.7)	0.2
Positive	540 (51.7)	505 (48.3)	0.2
Progesterone receptor
Negative	276 (49.6)	281 (50.4)	0.47
Positive	393 (51.6)	369 (48.4)	0.47
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
Negative	599 (52.6)	539 (47.4)	0.00074
Positive	74 (39.4)	114 (60.6)	0.00074
Triple negative breast cancer
Negative	571 (51)	549 (49)
Positive	102 (49)	104 (51)	0.699

Those patients with tumours showing high KANK1 protein expression had significantly better 10 years BCSS (p = 0.024; Fig. 2b) and longer TTDM (p = 0.048; Fig. 2c) compared with those patients showing low/reduced KANK1 expression. Multivariate analyses indicated that high KANK1 expression is correlated (< 0.05) with better outcome in terms of longer BCSS and TTDM, independent of other established prognostic variables including tumour size, Nottingham grade, nodal stage, LVI, ER status, PR status and HER2 status (Table 4).

Table 4

Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis for predictors of BCSS and time to distant metastasis (TTDM) in the Nottingham BC cohort

Factors	BCSS			TDDM
Factors	Hazard Ratio	95% CI	p value (< 0.05)	Hazard ratio	95% CI	p value (< 0.05)
KANK1 expression	1.4	1.072–1.786	0.0013	1.3	1.02–1.64	0.033
Tumour size	0.78	0.59–1.02	0.065	0.68	0.53–0.88	0.003
Tumour grade	1.62	1.26–2.08	< 0.0001	1.35	1.08–1.68	0.008
Tumour stage	1.78	1.50–2.13	< 0.0001	1.65	1.40–2.00	< 0.0001
Lymophvascular invasion	0.54	0.41–0.71	< 0.0001	0.55	0.43–0.88	< 0.0001
ER status	1.11	0.79–1.57	0.544	0.99	0.71–1.38	0.95
PR status	0.57	0.42–0.78	< 0.0001	0.68	0.50–0.88	0.004
HER2 expression	0.76	0.56–1.04	0.09	0.67	0.50–0.90	0.007

When we stratified our BC cohort based on hormonal receptor and HER2 expression, overexpression of KANK1 protein was predictive of longer BCSS in the receptor-negative subgroups (p = 0.024, p = 0.038 and p = 0.014 for ER−, PR− and HER2− tumours, respectively; Fig. 3a–c). TTDM showed similar association in both ER and HER2-negative BC (p = 0.027 and p = 0.014) (Fig. 3d, e). Importantly, when exploring the value of KANK1 protein expression in TNBC (n = 203), high KANK1 expression was also associated with prolonged survival (BCSS: p = 0.036 and TTDM p = 0.025; Fig. 4).

Discussion

This study has robustly demonstrated that high KANK1 expression is associated with good prognostic characteristics and improved BC patients’ outcomes, which is in agreement with other cancers including gastric [11], nerve [24] and lung [25]. Our study also showed that high KANK1 mRNA expression showed improved survival time in the aggressive and clinically relevant subgroups of BC, namely ER, PR and HER2-negative tumours. It was also strongly associated with clinicopathological variables characteristic of good prognosis including LVI negativity and lower grade, highlighting a potential tumour suppressive role in BC.

In the current study, high KANK1 mRNA expression was associated with ER, PR and HER2 negativity. This is consistent with KANK1 protein, except for HER2. This discrepancy in KANK1:HER2 expression between the protein and transcript levels may be attributable to the nature of the cohort, complicated post-transcriptional mechanisms and proteins may differ substantially in their in vivo half-lives [24, 25]. However, due to the relatively small sample size of the HER2-positive subgroup, further confirmation in larger cohorts of both HER2-positive and HER2-negative cases is required to determine the exact role of KANK1 in HER2-positive BC.

Nonetheless, when investigating the role of KANK1 mRNA expression with well-established EMT transcription factors, our data showed a negative correlation between KANK1 mRNA expression and other EMT genes (TGFB1, CDH2, LLGL2 and CTNNB1). On the other hand, high KANK1 mRNA expression showed a significant positive association with E-cadherin gene (CDH1), and these findings suggest that high KANK1 expression is involved in reducing tumour cell migration and influencing the LVI process through reducing the RhoA/ROCK pathway, which has a well-known role in controlling cancer cell migration [7]. TGFB1 acts as an oncogene in tumour progression by inducing cell invasion, dissemination to distant sites and augmenting angiogenesis. CDH2 and LLGL2, which play an important role in EMT activation, were negatively correlated with KANK1 high expression. This suggested that the EMT activation is prohibited by the presence of TGFB1, CDH2 and LLGL2. Chen et al. showed in gastric cancer, increased KANK1 expression was associated with smaller tumour size; results in agreement with our study results in both mRNA and protein levels, implying its role in decreasing cellular proliferation. Similarly, KANK1 may regulate the cell proliferation through inhibiting the phosphorylation of PI3 K/AKT proteins [26]. Smaller tumour size and negative association with TGFB1, CDH2 and LLGL2 strengthen the tumour suppressive role of KANK1.

In the whole BC cohort, high KANK1 protein expression was an independent prognostic marker for improved patients’ outcomes in terms of both BCSS and TTDM. Among subgroups, high expression of KANK1 protein appears to play the most significant survival role in TNBC. As TNBCs are highly resistance to chemotherapy compared to other BC types and strongly associated with worse clinical outcome, our results may indicate the promising role of KANK1 in this aggressive subtype regarding benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy and improved overall survival [27].

Our results suggest that loss of expression of KANK1 promotes BC progression. This is in concordance with previous reports indicating that reduced expression of KANK1 facilitates metastasis in different types of cancer and further reinforces its role as a prognostic indicator [11, 24, 25].

In summary, high KANK1 expression in BC is associated with favourable prognostic parameters and is an independent prognostic factor with prolonged patient survival. KANK1 appears to play a role in inhibiting tumour cells proliferation, migration, invasion and metastasis. Further functional studies to decipher the role of KANK1 and its mechanism of action as a tumour suppressive driver of invasive BC is warranted.

Acknowledgments

Yousif Kariri is supported and funded by Shaqra University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We thank Innovate UK for funding (ISCF bid Ref 18181).

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Conflict of interest

All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

This work obtained ethics approval to use the human tissue samples by the North West–Greater Manchester Central Research Ethics Committee under the title: Nottingham Health Science Biobank (NHSB), reference number 15/NW/0685. Informed consent was obtained from all individuals prior to surgery to use their tissue materials in research. This study was performed according to the REMARK guidelines for tumour prognostic studies.

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Titel: Prognostic significance of KN motif and ankyrin repeat domains 1 (KANK1) in invasive breast cancer
verfasst von: Yousif A. Kariri
Chitra Joseph
Sasagu Kurozumi
Michael S. Toss
Mansour Alsaleem
Sara Raafat
Nigel P. Mongan
Mohammed A. Aleskandarany
Andrew R. Green
Emad A. Rakha
Publikationsdatum: 02.11.2019
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment / Ausgabe 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0167-6806
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-019-05466-8

Springer Medizin

Prognostic significance of KN motif and ankyrin repeat domains 1 (KANK1) in invasive breast cancer

Abstract

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Electronic supplementary material

Publisher's Note

Background

Materials and methods

Study cohorts

KANK1 transcriptomic data

KANK1 protein expression

KANK1 protein cohort

Immunohistochemistry (IHC)

Scoring of KANK1 protein expression

Statistical analysis

Results

Clinicopathological significance of KANK1 mRNA expression

KANK1 protein expression

Discussion

Acknowledgments

Compliance with ethical standards

Conflict of interest

Research involving human participants and/or animals

Publisher's Note

Unsere Produktempfehlungen

e.Med Interdisziplinär

e.Med Gynäkologie

Electronic supplementary material

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Springer Medizin

Abstract

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Electronic supplementary material

Publisher's Note

Background

Materials and methods

Study cohorts

KANK1 transcriptomic data

KANK1 protein expression

KANK1 protein cohort

Immunohistochemistry (IHC)

Scoring of KANK1 protein expression

Statistical analysis

Results

Clinicopathological significance of KANK1 mRNA expression

KANK1 protein expression

Discussion

Acknowledgments

Compliance with ethical standards

Conflict of interest

Informed consent

Research involving human participants and/or animals

Publisher's Note

Unsere Produktempfehlungen

e.Med Interdisziplinär

e.Med Gynäkologie

Electronic supplementary material

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