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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-4
pubmed:abstractText
RET finger protein (RFP), which belongs to the large B-box RING finger protein family, has been reported to be expressed in breast carcinoma cell lines. We conducted this study to evaluate the expression level of RFP in breast carcinomas. Tissue microarrays were constructed from 133 cases of invasive breast carcinoma. Sections obtained from tissue arrays and whole sections from 10 non-neoplastic breast tissues were stained for ER, PR, ErbB2, and RFP using immunohistochemistry, and ErbB2 gene status was evaluated by FISH. The correlation between various immunohistochemical markers was determined. We found nuclear RFP expression in 41.4% of invasive carcinomas and in none of the non-neoplastic breast tissues. We also stained whole sections of 29 cases of invasive breast carcinoma, which included the TMA study, and 10 cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) by RFP. We observed that four (40%) of the DCIS cases were positive with RFP. In statistical analysis, there was a significant, positive association between RFP and ErbB2 status at the protein level (p=0.002) and the gene level (p=0.049). There was no statistically significant association between the expression of RFP and tumor size, LN status, ER, PR, and grade (p>0.05). However, we found a significant association between age and RFP expression. RFP expression was stronger in patients 50 years or older (p=0.048). In our study, the expression of RFP correlated strongly with ErbB2 status. Our study is the first in the literature to show expression of RFP in patients with breast carcinoma. However, the possible role of RFP in breast carcinogenesis needs to be investigated in more detailed clinical and experimental studies.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1618-0631
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
205
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
403-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Carcinoma in Situ, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Neoplasm Staging, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Receptor, erbB-2, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Receptors, Estrogen, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Receptors, Progesterone, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Tissue Array Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:19232840-Tumor Markers, Biological
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
RET finger protein expression in invasive breast carcinoma: relationship between RFP and ErbB2 expression.
pubmed:affiliation
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Sihhiye 06100, Ankara, Turkey. gayejp@hacettepe.edu.tr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article