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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
Phosphorylation of fascin at serine 39 (phospho-S39-fascin) could inhibit its actin-binding and actin-bundling activities and decrease filopodia formation. However, the relationship between phospho-S39-fascin expression and clinicopathological parameters in tumors is still unknown. Here, Western blot analysis and IHC applied to tissue microarray technology were performed to examine the expression status of non-phosphorylated fascin (fascin) and phospho-S39-fascin and their impacts on the prognosis of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Fascin and phospho-S39-fascin expressions were tested by cytoplasmic staining. Among the 254 patients, 90 cases showed high expression of fascin and 87 cases showed high expression of phospho-S39-fascin. Survival analysis showed that high expression of fascin was significantly associated with a poor prognosis of the patients with ESCC (p=0.004). In contrast, high expression of phospho-S39-fascin correlated significantly with an improved outcome of patients (p=0.020). Multivariate analysis showed that both fascin and phospho-S39-fascin were independent prognostic factors. In a combined analysis, the patients with high expression of fascin and low expression of phospho-S39-fascin tumors had a shorter overall survival than those with high expression of both fascin and phospho-S39-fascin tumors (5-year overall survival rate: 28.7% vs 48.3%, p=0.068). Our results suggest that high expression of fascin correlates with poor outcome and that high expression of phospho-S39-fascin decreases the risk of poor prognosis in ESCC. This manuscript contains online supplemental material at http://www.jhc.org. Please visit this article online to view these materials.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1551-5044
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
979-88
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Antibody Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Esophageal Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Microfilament Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Risk, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Serine, pubmed-meshheading:20713986-Survival Analysis
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Phosphorylation of fascin decreases the risk of poor survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Oncologic Pathology, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't