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The role of NPM, p14arf and MDM2 in precursors of bronchial squamous cell carcinoma

¹ Dept of Intensive Care and Thoracic Oncology, ⁴ Dept of Pathology, ⁵ Data Centre, ⁶ Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Institut Jules Bordet, ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), ² Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute for Microbiological Research J-M Wiame, ³ Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux (FUSAGx), and ⁷ Dept of Pneumology, CHU Saint-Pierre, ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Brussels, Belgium.

CORRESPONDENCE: C. Mascaux, Institut Jules Bordet, Rue Héger-Bordet 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. Fax: 32 25343756. E-mail: celine.mascaux{at}bordet.be

Keywords: Carcinogenesis, lung cancer, murine double minute clone 2, nucleophosmin, p14 alternate reading frame

Received: January 17, 2008
Accepted April 30, 2008

Murine double minute clone 2 (MDM2), p14 alternate reading frame (p14arf), and nucleophosmin (NPM) regulate p53 activity.

A total of 200 biopsies, including normal bronchial, pre-invasive and invasive tissues, were examined for changes in NPM, p14arf, MDM2 and p53 expression patterns by immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence with confocal microscopy.

NPM and p14arf displayed a diffuse nuclear staining in most normal bronchial tissue. The fraction of biopsies displaying an increased MDM2 staining or a nucleolar relocalisation of NPM increased at mild and moderate dysplasia, respectively. Two different modifications occurred in p14arf expression, i.e. its loss or its nucleolar relocalisation, both increasing at severe dysplasia and both being associated with high MDM2 expression. In addition, the nucleolar relocalisation of p14arf was associated with that of NPM. Immunofluorescence staining indicated that NPM and p14arf either co-localised in the nucleoplasm or in the nucleoli, before and as a result of severe dysplasia, respectively. MDM2 was not detected in the nucleoli.

Thus, changes occur in murine double minute clone 2, p14 alternate reading frame and nucleophosmin level of expression and/or cellular distribution during early steps of lung carcinogenesis. Their relative localisation as determined by immunofluorescence, supports the hypothesis that p14 alternate reading frame nucleolar relocalisation impairs p14 alternate reading frame–murine double minute clone 2 complex formation and that nucleophosmin might sequester p14 alternate reading frame. The demonstration of this hypothesis requires further functional studies.