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Amplification of chromosomal segment 4q12 in non-small cell lung cancer

Alex H. Ramos, Amit Dutt, Craig Mermel, Sven Perner, Jeonghee Cho, Christopher J. Lafargue, Laura A. Johnson, Ann Cathrin Stiedl, Kumiko E. Tanaka, Adam J. Bass, Jordi Barretina, Barbara A. Weir, Rameen Beroukhim, Roman K. Thomas, John D. Minna, Lucian R. Chirieac, Neal I. Lindeman, Thomas Giordano, David G. Beer, Patrick WagnerIgnacio I. Wistuba, Mark A. Rubin, Matthew Meyerson*

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit

Abstract

In cancer, proto-oncogenes are often altered by genomic amplification. Here we report recurrent focal amplifications of chromosomal segment 4q12 overlapping the proto-oncogenes PDGFRA and KIT in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCscLCc). Ssingle nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis indicate that 4q12 is amplified in 3-7% of lung adenocarcinomas and 8-10% of lung squamous cell carcinomas. In addition, we demonstrate that the NSCLC cell line NCI-H1703 exhibits focal amplification of PDGFRA and is dependent on PDGFR? activity for cell growth. Treatment of NCI-H1703 cells with PDGFRA-specific shRNAs or with the PDGFR?/KIT small molecule inhibitors imatinib or sunitinib leads to cell growth inhibition. However, these observations do not extend to NSCLC cell lines with lower-amplitude and broader gains of chromosome 4q. Together these observations implicate PDGFRA and KIT as potential oncogenes in NSCLC, but further study is needed to define the specific characteristics of those tumors that could respond to PDGFR?/KIT inhibitors.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftCancer Biology and Therapy
Jahrgang8
Ausgabenummer21
Seiten (von - bis)2042-2050
Seitenumfang9
ISSN1538-4047
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 01.11.2009

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We thank Shantanu Banerji for critical reading of the manuscript and Christopher A. French for providing microscopy support. A.D. is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship #PBZHB-106297. This work was supported by National Cancer Institute grants 5R01CA109038 and 5P20CA90578 (M.M.).

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