TY - JOUR
T1 - Gene expression signature of cigarette smoking and its role in lung adenocarcinoma development and survival
AU - Landi, Maria Teresa
AU - Dracheva, Tatiana
AU - Rotunno, Melissa
AU - Figueroa, Jonine D.
AU - Liu, Huaitian
AU - Dasgupta, Abhijit
AU - Mann, Felecia E.
AU - Fukuoka, Junya
AU - Hames, Megan
AU - Bergen, Andrew W.
AU - Murphy, Sharon E.
AU - Yang, Ping
AU - Pesatori, Angela C.
AU - Consonni, Dario
AU - Bertazzi, Pier Alberto
AU - Wacholder, Sholom
AU - Shih, Joanna H.
AU - Caporaso, Neil E.
AU - Jen, Jin
PY - 2008/2/20
Y1 - 2008/2/20
N2 - Background: Tobacco smoking is responsbile for over 90% of lung cancer cases, and yet the precise molecular alterations induced by smoking in lung that develop into cancer and impact survival have remained obscure. Methodology/Principal Findings: We performed gene expression analysis using HG-U133A affymetrix chips on 135 fresh frozen tissue samples of adenocarcinoma and paired noninvolved lung tissue from current, former and never smokers, with biochemically validated smoking information, ANOVA analysis adjusted for potential confounders, multiple testing procedure, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, and GO-functional classification were conducted for gene selection. Results were confirmed in independent adenocarcinoma and non-tumor tissues from two studies. We identified a gene expression signature characteristic of smoking that includes cell cycly genes, particularly those involved in the mitotic spindle formation (e.g., NEK2, TTK, PRC1). Expression of these genes strongly differentiated both smokers in lung tumors and early stage tumor tissue from non-tumor tissue (p<0.001 and fold-change > 1.5, for each comparison), consistent with an important role for this pathway in lung carcinogenesis induced by smoking. These changes persisted many years after smoking cessation NEK2 (p<0.001) and TTK ( p = 0.002) expression in the noninvolved lung tissue was also associated with a 3-fold increased risk of mortality from lung adenocarcinoma in smokers. Conclusion/Significance: Our work provides insight into the smoking-related mechanisms of lung neoplasia, and shows that the very mitotic genes known to be involved in cancer development are induced by smoking and affect survival. These genes are candidate targets for chemoprevention and treatment of lung cancer in smokers.
AB - Background: Tobacco smoking is responsbile for over 90% of lung cancer cases, and yet the precise molecular alterations induced by smoking in lung that develop into cancer and impact survival have remained obscure. Methodology/Principal Findings: We performed gene expression analysis using HG-U133A affymetrix chips on 135 fresh frozen tissue samples of adenocarcinoma and paired noninvolved lung tissue from current, former and never smokers, with biochemically validated smoking information, ANOVA analysis adjusted for potential confounders, multiple testing procedure, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, and GO-functional classification were conducted for gene selection. Results were confirmed in independent adenocarcinoma and non-tumor tissues from two studies. We identified a gene expression signature characteristic of smoking that includes cell cycly genes, particularly those involved in the mitotic spindle formation (e.g., NEK2, TTK, PRC1). Expression of these genes strongly differentiated both smokers in lung tumors and early stage tumor tissue from non-tumor tissue (p<0.001 and fold-change > 1.5, for each comparison), consistent with an important role for this pathway in lung carcinogenesis induced by smoking. These changes persisted many years after smoking cessation NEK2 (p<0.001) and TTK ( p = 0.002) expression in the noninvolved lung tissue was also associated with a 3-fold increased risk of mortality from lung adenocarcinoma in smokers. Conclusion/Significance: Our work provides insight into the smoking-related mechanisms of lung neoplasia, and shows that the very mitotic genes known to be involved in cancer development are induced by smoking and affect survival. These genes are candidate targets for chemoprevention and treatment of lung cancer in smokers.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0001651
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0001651
M3 - Article
C2 - 18297132
AN - SCOPUS:45749140422
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 3
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 2
M1 - e1651
ER -