Background/aims: Immunohistochemical reactivity for p53 protein is common in various human malignancies and often related to p53 gene mutation. However, in some tumor types, accumulation of wild-type p53 has been shown. Previously, we analyzed 96 European hepatocellular carcinomas using immunohistochemistry and found that 31% of these tumors overexpressed p53 in the cell nucleus. The aim of the present study was to establish whether p53 positivity correlates with the presence of structural p53 gene abnormalities in European hepatocellular carcinoma.
Methods: DNA from 20 tumors, 10 with strong immunostaining and 10 with undetectable staining for p53, was extracted from frozen sections, and the entire coding portion of the p53 gene was sequenced.
Results: Five of the 10 tumors containing high levels of p53 protein showed missense point mutations. The remaining 5 tumors with high p53 levels showed the wild-type coding sequence. One of the 10 tumors containing undetectable levels of p53 protein had a 1-base pair deletion in the splice acceptor site of intron 4.
Conclusions: The results strongly suggest that, in European hepatocellular carcinomas, stabilization of the p53 protein depends on factors other than p53 gene mutation, such as binding to other molecules of cellular or viral origin.
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