Abstract
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and the TNF receptor (TNFR) superfamily play very important roles for cell death as well as normal immune regulation. Dysregulation of TNF-TNFR superfamily gene expression will influence many biological processes, and contributes to human diseases, including cancer. We investigated the genetic alterations of the TNF-TNFR superfamily genes in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Several genetic alterations were detected in the 44 TNF-TNFR superfamily genes by sequencing hepatocellular carcinoma DNA samples. In particular, we found that the TNFR1 promoter -329G/T polymorphism was strongly associated with primary HCC (odds ratio [OR] = 5.22, p = 0.0007). We also observed frequent loss of heterozygosity at the polymorphic TNFR1 -329G/T site in the primary tumor tissues, indicating that the polymorphic TNFR1 -329G/T site is very susceptible to genetic alterations in HCC. Furthermore, in the polymorphic TNFR1 -329G/T site, the T allele resulted in the repression of TNFR1 expression. Therefore, our results suggest that TNFR1 -329G/T polymorphism may play an important role in the development of HCC.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 395-401 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
Volume | 368 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 4 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are grateful to Dr. A. Fujiyama (RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Japan) for the provision of sample supplies (chimpanzee DNA). This work was supported in part by a Grant (#0720200) of the National R&D Program for Cancer Control, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea and a Grant (#07-419) from the Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea.
Keywords
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Promoter
- Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
- TNFR1