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Expression of the Laminin-5γ2 Chain Is Associated With Acquisition of Malignant Traits in Ovarian Serous and Mucinous Tumors.


 BackgroundOvarian tumors are predominantly of epithelial origin and are currently divided into three groups: Adenoma, borderline tumor, and adenocarcinoma by the presence or absence of invasion and cellular atypia. However, it is difficult to assess invasion, so a more objective biomarker would be desirable. Laminin-5 (Lam5) is a protein that constitutes the extracellular matrix of the basement membrane, and it is composed of three short-chain subunits. One of them, the Lam5γ2 chain (Lam5γ2), has been reported to be expressed in some malignant tumors and is suggested to be related to tumor cell invasion. Against this background, we investigated immunohistologically whether the Lam5γ2 would be useful as a marker to predict invasion in ovarian serous and mucinous tumors.MethodsImmunohistochemistry for Lam5γ2 was performed on a total of 80 cases of serous and mucinous tumor adenomas, borderline tumors, and adenocarcinomas, and the differences in the localization of Lam5γ2 expression were observed.ResultsThe basement membrane expression of Lam5γ2 tended to be preserved or had disappeared in half of the adenomas and borderline serous tumors. In all cases of adenocarcinoma, the expression on the basement membrane had disappeared. The frequency of expression in tumor cells increased in the order of adenoma, borderline tumor, adenocarcinoma. In particular, in most adenocarcinoma cases a cytoplasmic expression was observed. The same tendency was noted in mucinous tumors, and the basement membrane expression tended to disappear in the order of adenoma, borderline tumor and adenocarcinoma. Many cases of adenocarcinoma were observed among the tumor cells. In adenocarcinoma cases of both types of tumor, many tumor cells showed prominent cytoplasmic expression particularly in the microinvasive foci and in the invasive front.ConclusionsThe disappearance of Lam5γ2 from the basement membrane and its aberrant expression in serous and mucinous tumor cells may serve as a phenotype for invasiveness.