The Role of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition Markers in Thyroid Carcinoma Progression

Adenoma Adult Male Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Adolescent anaplastic thyroid carcinoma; E-Cadherin; Smad7; Thyroid carcinoma; ZEB1 Thyroid Gland Cell Line 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Adenocarcinoma, Follicular Biomarkers, Tumor Humans Thyroid Neoplasms Aged Aged, 80 and over Homeodomain Proteins Middle Aged Cadherins Carcinoma, Papillary 3. Good health Disease Progression Female Transcription Factors
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-013-9272-9 Publication Date: 2013-10-14T07:06:35Z
ABSTRACT
Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in thyroid cancer progression may provide targets for more effective treatment of aggressive thyroid cancers. Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a major pathologic mechanism in tumor progression and is linked to the acquisition of stem-like properties of cancer cells. We examined expression of ZEB1 which activates EMT by binding to the E-box elements in the E-cadherin promoter, and expression of E-cadherin in normal and neoplastic thyroid tissues in a tissue microarray which included 127 neoplasms and 10 normal thyroid specimens. Thyroid follicular adenomas (n = 32), follicular thyroid carcinomas (n = 28), and papillary thyroid carcinomas (n = 57) all expressed E-cadherin and were mostly negative for ZEB1 while most anaplastic thyroid carcinomas (ATC, n = 10) were negative for E-cadherin, but positive for ZEB1. A validation set of 10 whole sections of ATCs showed 90 % of cases positive for ZEB1 and all cases were negative for E-cadherin. Analysis of three cell lines (normal thyroid, NTHY-OR13-1; PTC, TPC-1, and ATC, THJ-21T) showed that the ATC cell line expressed the highest levels of ZEB1 while the normal thyroid cell line expressed the highest levels of E-Cadherin. Quantitative RT-PCR analyses showed that Smad7 mRNA was significantly higher in ATC than in any other group (p < 0.05). These results indicate that ATCs show evidence of EMT including decreased expression of E-cadherin and increased expression of ZEB1 compared to well-differentiated thyroid carcinomas and that increased expression of Smad7 may be associated with thyroid tumor progression.
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