NDLI: High levels of class III β-tubulin expression are associated with aggressive tumor features in breast cancer

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Author	Patrick, Lebok ÖztÜrk, Melike HeilenkÖtter, Uwe Jaenicke, Fritz Volkmar, MÜller Paluchowski, Peter Geist, Stefan Wilke, Christian Burandt, Eicke Lebeau, Annette Wilczak, Waldemar Krech, Till Simon, Ronald Sauter, Guido Quaas, Alexander
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Overexpression of class III β-tubulin (TUBB3), a factor that confers dynamic properties to microtubules, is a candidate biomarker for resistance to microtubule-targeting chemotherapeutics in breast and other types of solid cancer. Discrepant results from previous studies, with respect to the association of TUBB3 expression levels with breast cancer phenotype and patient prognosis, prompted the present study to investigate TUBB3 expression in a large cohort of breast cancer cases, with available clinical follow-up data. A preexisting breast cancer prognosis tissue microarray, containing a single 0.6 mm tissue core from each of 2,197 individual patients with breast cancer, was analyzed for TUBB3 expression by immunohistochemistry. The results of the present study revealed that TUBB3 expression was less frequent in lobular breast cancer cases (34%), compared with that of cancer cases of alternative histologies, including breast cancer of no special type (60%; P<0.0001). High TUBB3 positivity was associated with high tumor grade (P<0.0001), negativity for estrogen (P<0.0001) and progesterone receptors (P<0.004), as well as the presence of human epidermal growth factor 2 amplification (P<0.0001) and a triple-negative phenotype (P<0.0001). TUBB3 overexpression was additionally associated with reduced patient survival if all breast cancer cases of any histology were jointly analyzed (P=0.0088); however this link was not evident in the subset of breast cancer cases of no special type, or in a multivariate analysis including the established prognostic factors of tumor stage, grade and nodal stage. In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that TUBB3 overexpression was associated with adverse features of breast cancer, and that TUBB3 may possess a distinct role in lobular breast cancer cases, compared with alternative histological subtypes. The results of the present study do not support a clinically relevant role for TUBB3 as a prognostic marker in breast cancer.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.4206
Starting Page	1987
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ISSN	17921074
e-ISSN	17921082
Journal	Oncology Letters
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	D.A. Spandidos
Publisher Date	2016-02-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	D.A. Spandidos
Subject Keyword	Cancer Research Oncology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cancer Research Oncology

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