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A Novel Survival-Based Tissue Microarray Of Pancreatic Cancer Validates Muc1 And Mesothelin As Biomarkers., Jordan M Winter, Laura H Tang, David S Klimstra, Murray F Brennan, Jonathan R Brody, Flavio G Rocha, Xiaoyu Jia, Li-Xuan Qin, Michael I D'Angelica, Ronald P Dematteo, Yuman Fong, William R Jarnagin, Eileen M O'Reilly, Peter J Allen Jan 2012

A Novel Survival-Based Tissue Microarray Of Pancreatic Cancer Validates Muc1 And Mesothelin As Biomarkers., Jordan M Winter, Laura H Tang, David S Klimstra, Murray F Brennan, Jonathan R Brody, Flavio G Rocha, Xiaoyu Jia, Li-Xuan Qin, Michael I D'Angelica, Ronald P Dematteo, Yuman Fong, William R Jarnagin, Eileen M O'Reilly, Peter J Allen

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: One-fifth of patients with seemingly 'curable' pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) experience an early recurrence and death, receiving no definable benefit from a major operation. Some patients with advanced stage tumors are deemed 'unresectable' by conventional staging criteria (e.g. liver metastasis), yet progress slowly. Effective biomarkers that stratify PDA based on biologic behavior are needed. To help researchers sort through the maze of biomarker data, a compendium of ∼2500 published candidate biomarkers in PDA was compiled (PLoS Med, 2009. 6(4) p. e1000046).

METHODS AND FINDINGS: Building on this compendium, we constructed a survival tissue microarray (termed s-TMA) comprised of short-term …


Pp32 (Anp32a) Expression Inhibits Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth And Induces Gemcitabine Resistance By Disrupting Hur Binding To Mrnas., Timothy K Williams, Christina L Costantino, Nikolai A Bildzukewicz, Nathan G Richards, David W Rittenhouse, Lisa Einstein, Joseph A Cozzitorto, Judith C Keen, Abhijit Dasgupta, Myriam Gorospe, Gregory E Gonye, Charles J Yeo, Agnieszka K Witkiewicz, Jonathan R Brody Nov 2010

Pp32 (Anp32a) Expression Inhibits Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth And Induces Gemcitabine Resistance By Disrupting Hur Binding To Mrnas., Timothy K Williams, Christina L Costantino, Nikolai A Bildzukewicz, Nathan G Richards, David W Rittenhouse, Lisa Einstein, Joseph A Cozzitorto, Judith C Keen, Abhijit Dasgupta, Myriam Gorospe, Gregory E Gonye, Charles J Yeo, Agnieszka K Witkiewicz, Jonathan R Brody

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

The expression of protein phosphatase 32 (PP32, ANP32A) is low in poorly differentiated pancreatic cancers and is linked to the levels of HuR (ELAV1), a predictive marker for gemcitabine response. In pancreatic cancer cells, exogenous overexpression of pp32 inhibited cell growth, supporting its long-recognized role as a tumor suppressor in pancreatic cancer. In chemotherapeutic sensitivity screening assays, cells overexpressing pp32 were selectively resistant to the nucleoside analogs gemcitabine and cytarabine (ARA-C), but were sensitized to 5-fluorouracil; conversely, silencing pp32 in pancreatic cancer cells enhanced gemcitabine sensitivity. The cytoplasmic levels of pp32 increased after cancer cells are treated with certain stressors, …