Background: The positive response and the clinical usefulness of 14 serum antibodies in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) were examined in this study. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) was used to investigate the frequency of gene expressions, mutations, and amplification of these 14 antigens and also the possible effects of antibody induction.
Methods: Blood serum derived from 85 patients with ESCC was collected and analyzed for the 14 antibodies using ELISA. The prognosis between positive and negative antibodies were then compared. The antibody panel included LGALS1, HCA25a, HCC-22-5, and HSP70.
Results: Patient serum was positive for all antibodies, except VEGF, with the positive rates ranging from 1.18 to 10.59%. Positive rates for LGALS1, HCA25a, HCC-22-5, and HSP70 were > 10%. TCGA data revealed that all antigen-related genes had little or no mutation or amplification, and hence an increase in gene expression affected antibody induction. The positive results from the panel accounted for the positive rate comparable to the combination of CEA and SCC. No significant association was observed between the presence of antibodies and disease prognosis.
Conclusions: The detection rates of LGALS1, HCA25a, HCC-22-5, and HSP70 were 10% higher in patients with ESCC. Gene overexpression may be involved in such antibody production. These four antibodies were applied as a panel in comparison with conventional tumor markers. Moreover, it was confirmed that the combination of this panel and the conventional tumor markers significantly improved the positive rate.
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Cancer Sci
May 2021
Department of Clinical Oncology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Because the production of tumor-associated antibodies (TAA) is a humoral immune response in cancer patients, serum autoantibodies may be detected even in patients with early-stage tumors. Seventeen recombinant proteins with tags in Escherichia coli (p53, RalA, p90, NY-ESO-1, HSP70, c-myc, galectin-1, Sui1, KN-HN-1, HSP40, PrxVI, p62, cyclin B1, HCC-22-5, annexin II, HCA25a, and HER2) were applied as capturing antigens in sandwich ELISA to measure serum IgG levels. Sera from 73 healthy donors and 386 patients with breast cancer, including 182 stage 0/I patients, were evaluated using cutoff values for each TAA equal to the mean +3 SD of the serum levels of healthy controls.
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October 2020
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery and Clinical Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Toho University, 6-11-1 Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8541, Japan.
Background: The positive response and the clinical usefulness of 14 serum antibodies in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) were examined in this study. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) was used to investigate the frequency of gene expressions, mutations, and amplification of these 14 antigens and also the possible effects of antibody induction.
Methods: Blood serum derived from 85 patients with ESCC was collected and analyzed for the 14 antibodies using ELISA.
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