Loss of the clock gene PER2 is associated with cancer development and altered expression of important tumor-related genes in oral cancer
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- Published online on: October 31, 2017 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2017.4180
- Pages: 279-287
Abstract
Introduction
Clock genes exist in almost all cells of the human body (1,2). They not only perform important roles in controlling the biological rhythm of the human body, but also affect cellular functions by regulating numerous genes. The downstream genes regulated by clock genes are called clock-controlled genes (CCGs) (3). CCGs are involved in various physiological activities, including cell proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycling, metabolism, endocrine signaling and immunity (4–8). As a result, abnormal expression of clock genes can lead to a variety of diseases, including endocrine disorders, cardiovascular diseases and tumors (9–12).
PER2 gene is an important clock gene. Changes in its expression are closely associated with the occurrence and development of cancers (13–17). Studies have demonstrated that PER2 expression levels are downregulated in multiple types of tumor, including gastric carcinoma, liver cancer, colon cancer, and head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (18–21). Furthermore, in vitro investigations of PER2 overexpression in lung cancer LLC cells, breast cancer EMT6 cells, osteosarcoma MG63 cells, and pancreatic cancer Panc1 and Aspc1 cells have demonstrated significant increases in tumor cell apoptosis and marked decreases in cell proliferation (22–24). Our previous studies have also shown that knockdown of PER2 in OSCC cells can greatly enhance cell proliferation and reduce apoptosis (25,26). The aforementioned studies thus implicate PER2 as an important tumor-suppressor gene.
OSCC accounts for 90% of oral cancers, and is a common malignant tumor (27). At present, there is no clear opinion regarding the associations between PER2 expression changes and the occurrence, development and survival outcomes of OSCC. It has been shown that the development of OSCC is closely related to expression changes of several important tumor-related genes, such as PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 (28–34). However, it is unclear whether there is any correlation between PER2 expression and the aberrant expression of these tumor-related genes.
In the present study, the mRNA and protein expression levels of PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 were assessed and compared between OSCC and cancer-adjacent oral mucosa. In addition, the correlations between PER2 expression and clinicopathological parameters, survival time and expression levels of PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 were analyzed, so as to provide a basis for further study into the function and mechanism of PER2 in cancer development.
Materials and methods
Antibodies
All primary antibodies used in the study were rabbit anti-human antibodies, and details are provided in Table I. Horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG secondary antibodies were purchased from CWBio Biotechnology (Beijing, China).
Patients and specimens
Fresh OSCC tissues and cancer-adjacent tissues were obtained from 8 patients with OSCC who underwent surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (Chongqing, China) between September 2016 and November 2016. The clinicopathological data of these 8 OSCC patients are shown in Table II. In addition, paraffin-embedded tissue sections of 40 OSCC patients were obtained from the Pathology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University for immunohistochemical staining. The 40 patients were in-patients treated at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University between 2007 and 2011; the clinicopathological data of these 40 patients are presented in Table III. From the 40 paraffin-embedded sections, 14 cancer-adjacent oral mucosa specimens were selected and used as the control group. None of the patients underwent radiotherapy or chemotherapy prior to surgery. The study was approved by the Biomedical Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (approval no. 2016-124) and written informed consent was obtained from all patients who participated.
Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR)
A liquid nitrogen grinding method was used to prepare the fresh OSCC and cancer-adjacent oral mucosa tissues from 8 patients. Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent (Takara, Shiga, Japan) according to the manufacturer's instructions. A PrimeScript™ reagent kit with gDNA Eraser (Takara) was used to synthesize cDNA by reverse transcription. The primers for the PER2, PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 genes, as well as GAPDH, were designed with Oligo 7.0. The forward and reverse primer sequences for each gene are shown in Table IV. The reaction system included 12.5 µl 2X SYBR Premix Ex Taq™ II, 1 µl 0.4 µM forward primer and reverse primer, 2 µl 50 ng/µl cDNA and 8.5 µl dH2O, in a total volume of 25 µl. A C-1000™ Thermal Cycler (Bio-Rad, CA, USA) was used for qPCR. The PCR steps included 95°C predegeneration for 90 sec, followed by 40 amplification cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 10 sec and annealing/elongation at 60°C for 30 sec. The transcript level of each gene was normalized to the expression of GAPDH. The comparative threshold cycle method (2−ΔΔCt) was used to calculate relative changes in expression. For every sample, the experiment was repeated three times.
Western blot analysis
OSCC and cancer-adjacent oral mucosa tissues were weighed and ground into tissue powder in liquid nitrogen. Total protein from the OSCC and cancer-adjacent tissues was extracted using RIPA lysate (strong) (CWBio) containing a protease inhibitor cocktail (CWBio). Protein concentrations were measured using a BCA protein assay kit (CWBio). Subsequently, equal amounts of protein (50 µg) were separated by SDS-PAGE and electrophoretically transferred onto PVDF membranes (Solarbio). The PVDF membranes were then blocked with 5% skim milk for 1 h at room temperature, prior to being incubated with primary antibodies at 4°C overnight. Affinity-purified HRP-conjugated IgG secondary antibodies (1:4,500, CWBio) were incubated with the membranes in a 37°C incubator for 1 h. An ECL-Advance Western Blot Detection system (Bio-Rad) was used for detection of the protein bands. Each experiment was repeated three times.
Immunohistochemistry
The 'two-step method' immunohistochemistry method was used to analyze protein expression in the paraffin-embedded sections (thickness, 4 µm). The paraffin-embedded sections were placed in incubators at 60°C for 1 h, then dewaxed and rehydrated by conventional protocols. The sections were then placed in citric acid solution (pH 6.0), heated in an oven until boiling, then heated for 10 min at 95°C for antigen retrieval. The sections were then naturally cooled to the ambient room temperature. To eliminate endogenous peroxidase activity, the sections were incubated in 3% H2O2 deionized water for 10 min. PBS was then used to wash the sections (3×3 min). Blocking was performed with 5% normal goat serum for 20 min, and the sections were subsequently incubated with primary antibodies (Table I) overnight at 4°C. Biotin-labeled secondary antibodies (SP test kit; SP-9000; Beijing Zhongshan Golden Bridge Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China) were incubated with the sections at room temperature for 10 min. Following 3×3-min washes in PBS, Streptavidin-HRP (SP test kit; SP-9000; Beijing Zhongshan Golden Bridge Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) was added to the sections and incubated at room temperature for 15 min. Further 3×3-min washes in PBS were performed. For microscopic examination, DAB developer was added and incubated at room temperature for 3 min. The sections were then stained with hematoxylin, dehydrated, cleared, and observed under a light microscope after mounting with neutral resin. Slides with PBS added instead of primary antibody were used as the negative control. The positive slide provided by the company was used as the positive control. Five high-power fields were examined randomly in each section.
Results were evaluated using semiquantitative method. Intensity of positive staining (no staining, 0; light yellow, 1; brown, 2; dark brown, 3) and the percentage of positive cells (number of positive cells ≤25%, 0; 26–50%, 1; 51–75%, 2; ≥76%, 3) were scored. The sum of the intensity of positive staining scores and the percentage of positive cells scores was used finally to evaluate PER2 expression as follows: 0–1-negative (−), 2–3-weakly positive (+), 4–5-positive (++), and ≥6-strongly positive (+++). Weakly positive (+), positive (++) and strongly positive (+++) were judged as positive expression.
Statistical analysis
All data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The experimental data from the RT-qPCR and western blot analyses were expressed as the mean ± standard deviation (mean ± SD). A Student's t-test was used to make comparisons between two groups. Immunohistochemical data were expressed as the proportion of specimens with positive expression, and a χ2 test was used to analyze the differences in protein expression between OSCC and cancer-adjacent oral mucosa. A Spearman's rank correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between the level of PER2 and of other proteins. Survival curves were drawn using the Kaplan-Meier method, and log-rank was used to compare survival between PER2-positive and PER2-negative cases (α=0.05, two-sided). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
RT-qPCR analysis
To determine the PER2, PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 mRNA expression levels in human OSCC, RT-qPCR was performed on paired OSCC tissues and adjacent non-cancerous tissues from 8 patients. The results revealed that the mRNA expression levels of PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 were reduced significantly in OSCC compared with adjacent non-cancerous tissues (P<0.05), whereas there were no significant differences in the PIK3CA mRNA expression levels, as shown in Table V and Fig. 1.
 | Table VLevels of mRNA expression of each gene in OSCC tissue and cancer-adjacent oral mucosa tissue. |
Western blot analysis
The PER2, PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 protein expression levels were determined by western blotting in paired OSCC and adjacent non-cancerous tissues from 8 patients. The western blot results showed that the protein expression levels of PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 in OSCC were significantly reduced compared with those in non-cancerous tissues (P<0.05), while the PIK3CA protein level was significantly increased (P<0.05), as shown in Table VI, Figs. 2 and 3.
| Table VIResults of protein average grey value in paired OSCC tissues and adjacent non-cancerous tissues. |
Immunohistochemical analysis
The protein expression levels of PER2, PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 were analyzed in 40 OSCC tissues and 14 adjacent noncancerous tissues by immunohistochemical staining. The semi-quantified results of the immunohistochemical staining are presented in Table VII. The rates of positive expression of PER2, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 proteins in OSCC were significantly lower than those in the adjacent non-cancerous tissues (P<0.05), while the rates of positive expression of PIK3CA and P53 proteins in OSCC were markedly higher than those in adjacent non-cancerous tissues (P<0.05). Representative immunohistochemical staining of PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8 proteins is shown in Fig. 4. Additionally, PER2 protein was mainly located in the cytoplasm in adjacent non-cancerous tissues, while it appeared to be expressed in both the cytoplasm and the cell nucleus in OSCC tissues according to subcellular localization analysis. The staining of PER2 in the nuclei of the basal layer of epithelial tissue was more intense than that in the subcutaneous layer of cells, as shown in Fig. 4.
| Table VIIResult of immunohistochemical staining of each protein in OSCC tissues and cancer-adjacent tissues. |
Low expression of PER2 is associated with the clinicopathological parameters of patients with OSCC
There was a clear association between PER2 expression and the clinical stage of OSCC: positive PER2 expression was markedly more frequent in OSCC of stages I/II than in OSCC of stages III/IV (P=0.000). Furthermore, PER2 expression was increased in OSCC of stages T1/T2 compared with that of stages T3/T4 (P=0.020), and was significantly more frequent in patients without lymphatic metastasis than in patients with lymphatic metastasis (P=0.049). There were no significant associations between PER2 and patient age, sex or pathological grade in OSCC (P<0.05), as shown in Table VIII.
| Table VIIIThe expression of PER2 protein and its relationship with clinicopathological features of patients with OSCC. |
Low expression of PER2 is associated with poor prognosis of patients with OSCC
Kaplan-Meier survival curves and log-rank tests demonstrated that OSCC patients with PER2-negative expression had a shorter overall survival time than those with PER2-positive expression (P=0.044 and P<0.05). The median post-operative survival times of patients with positive and negative PER2 expression, respectively, were 62 and 32 months. Furthermore, the 3- and 5-year survival rates of patients with PER2-positive expression were 68.8% and 62.5%, respectively, whereas the 3-year and 5-year survival rates of patients with PER2-negative expression were 41.7% and 29.2%, respectively, as shown in Fig. 5.
PER2 expression is associated with the expression of the tumor-related genes PIK3CA, PTEN, P53, P14ARF and caspase-8
PER2 expression was negatively correlated with the expression of PIK3CA and P53 (P<0.05), and was positively correlated with the expression of PTEN, P14ARF and caspase-8 (P<0.05), as shown in Table IX.
| Table IXSpearman's rank correlation analysis between PER2 protein and tumor related protein in patients with OSCC. |
Discussion
Previous studies have demonstrated that PER2 expression was decreased in gastric carcinoma, liver cancer, colon cancer and HNSCC (18–21). Similarly, this study also revealed that PER2 expression was reduced in OSCC compared with adjacent non-cancerous tissue. Further analysis found that the expression of PER2 was associated with the clinical stage of OSCC, as well as the lymphatic metastasis status and the patient survival time: reduced expression of PER2 could promote the occurrence and metastasis of OSCC and shorten survival time. This seems to be consistent with research results of Zhao et al in gastric carcinoma (18) and of Wang et al in colon cancer (20).
The specific molecular mechanisms by which an abnormal expression level of PER2 promotes the occurrence and development of OSCC has remained unclear until now. P53 and P14ARF are known to play important roles in the occurrence and development of OSCC (32,33). P14ARF can restrain MDM2, thereby relieving the ubiquitination and degradation of P53 and increasing the intracellular level of functional P53 (35). P14ARF can thus positively regulate P53, and can also form a feedback loop (35). Loss of p53 in OSCC may be partly attributed to reduced P14ARF expression. Previous evidence has shown that wild-type P53 (wt-P53) functions as a tumor suppressor, whereas mutant type P53 (mt-P53) does not (36). Gröbe et al and Friedrich et al reported that mt-P53 accounted for 40–60% of all P53 in OSCC (37,38). wt-p53 protein's half-life is very short, its detection is difficult by general experimental methods. However mt-p53 protein is more stable. mt-p53 protein can be detected by immunohistochemistry. Although weaker staining of p53 protein might be detected due to increased stability when cells are in a state of oxidative cellular stress, it is generally believed that oxidative cellular stress had very little influence on the positive rate of p53 when detected by immunohistochemistry. Judging mutation status of p53 according to the result of positive expression detected by immunohistochemistry with highly specificity and sensitivity (39). Our results of immunohistochemistry staining show that the p53-positive expression rate in OSCC was 42.5%, which could be considered roughly representing its mutation status in OSCC. Further analysis show that PER2 was negatively correlated with p53 positive expression, and positively correlated with P14ARF in OSCC.
Studies have revealed that PIK3CA and PTEN have an important role in the occurrence and development of OSCC (23–31). PIK3CA is the key molecule in the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway (40), while PTEN is the most important negative regulatory component in the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway (41). Abnormal activation of PI3K/AKT signaling may be associated with the functional loss of PTEN (42). According to the study by Chen et al, the downregulation of PER2 in cisplatin-resistant lung cancer A549/DDP cells resulted in increased PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activity. Conversely, after upregulating PER2, PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway activity was reduced, thereby promoting apoptosis (43). Wang et al injected a recombinant PER2 plasmid to induce PER2 overexpression in an allograft ovarian cancer nude mouse model, revealing that PIK3CA and AKT protein expression levels could be reduced as a result (44). The present study also indicated that PER2 expression in clinical specimens of OSCC was negatively correlated with PIK3CA expression, but positively correlated with PTEN expression. Therefore, there may be an interaction between PER2 and the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. PER2 could restrain the activity of the PI3K signaling pathway through two modes: firstly, PER2 might restrain PTEN expression, so as to weaken the negative regulatory effect of PTEN on PI3K/AKT signaling, thus indirectly activating PI3K/AKT signaling; secondly, PER2 might interact with the P110 subunits, encoded by PIK3CA, in the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway, so as to restrain the intracellular conduction of extracellular signals. The molecular mechanism by which PER2 regulates PI3K/AKT should be further studied.
Our previous studies found that downregulating PER2 in OSCC cells could markedly reduce cell apoptosis (25,26). Caspase-8 is an important apoptosis-related gene, and its abnormal expression is closely associated with carcinogenesis (45). Previous studies have already demonstrated decreased caspase-8 expression in various types of cancers (34,46). Consistently, the results of the current study also found that caspase-8 mRNA and protein expression levels in OSCC were reduced, and further demonstrated a positive correlation between PER2 and caspase-8. These findings suggest that the abnormally decreased expression of PER2 may reduce apoptosis by regulating caspase-8, thereby leading to carcinogenesis.
In the present study, a subcellular localization analysis was conducted. We found that PER2 staining was mainly present in the cytoplasm in cancer-adjacent oral mucosa cells, while OSCC cells exhibited both cytoplasmic and nuclear PER2 staining. We also found that PER2 staining in the nuclei of stratum basale cells was more intense than that in the nuclei of stratum spinosum and granular layer cells. Ectopic expression of PER2 in cancer cells may promote cell proliferation, and this may be one of the causes of tumor occurrence and development.
In conclusion, the expression of PER2 is reduced in OSCC. Reduced expression of PER2 is closely associated with the occurrence and development of OSCC, and may therefore be an important biological marker to predict OSCC prognosis. PER2 may exert its antitumor effect via the P53/P14ARF, PIK3CA/AKT and caspase-8 pathways. These findings suggest that PER2 may be an important target for cancer therapy; however, the exact role of PER2 must be further verified. Future studies should explore the key molecules that interact with PER2 in the aforementioned pathways, and investigate their molecular mechanisms.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the Program for Graduate Student Research Innovation in Chongqing (CYS16168).
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