Overexpression of the anti-adhesin podocalyxin is an independent predictor of breast cancer progression.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
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Abstract
Podocalyxin is a CD34-related cell surface molecule with anti-adhesive qualities. We probed a tissue microarray (n = 272) linked to long-term outcome data and found that podocalyxin was highly overexpressed in a distinct subset of invasive breast carcinomas (n = 15; 6%). Univariate disease-specific (P < 0.01) and multivariate regression (P < 0.0005) analyses indicated that this overexpression is an independent indicator of poor outcome. Forced podocalyxin expression perturbed cell junctions between MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells, and it caused cell shedding from confluent monolayers. Therefore, podocalyxin overexpression is a novel predictor of breast cancer progression that may contribute to the process by perturbing tumor cell adhesion.
Medical subject headings
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Breast Neoplasms
- Cell Adhesion
- Intercellular Junctions
- Sialoglycoproteins