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Close correlation between mutations of E2F4 and hMSH3 genes in colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability.

Defects in mismatch repair function can lead to the microsatellite instability (MI+; replication error) phenotype in certain human cancers. We previously reported that MI+ tumor-specific repeat number alteration at 13 consecutive trinucleotide (CAG) repeats within a coding exon of the E2F4 gene is a possible target of the defective repair pathway. Additional investigations revealed that E2F4 mutations are common (11 of 17 cases, 65%, mostly deletions) in a subset of human colorectal cancers with extensive MI+ phenotype, with respect to the proportion of loci affected and that most of these E2F4-mutated tumors (9 of 11, 82%) were accompanied by frameshift mutations in a polyadenine stretch within the seventh exon of the hMSH3 gene, a known mismatch repair gene that is responsible for repair of mismatch loops of two to four nucleotides. However, neither of these mutations was detected in 15 tumors with a lower incidence of MI+ loci. Similar repeat number alterations were less frequent in CAG repeats from other genes in all of the MI+ tumors we examined. These results indicate the presence of a novel cascade of mutational events that may be involved in acquisition of the malignant phenotype of human colorectal cancers with genetic instability.