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Functionally Impaired TR Mutants Are Present in Thyroid Papillary Cancer

Department of Endocrinology, Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences (M.P.-K., A.K., A.M., J.N.), and Department of Biochemistry, Medical Center of Postgraduate Education (M.P.-K.), 02-097 Warsaw, Poland; and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (S.-Y.C.), Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Monika Puzianowska-Kuznicka, Department of Endocrinology, Medical Research Center, 1a Banacha Street, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: . monika{at}amwaw.edu.pl

Abstract

TRs are transcription factors that regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. They are cellular homologs of the transcriptionally inactive viral oncogene v-erbA. We tested the hypothesis that the functions of TRs could be impaired in cancer tissues as a result of aberrant expression and/or somatic mutations. As a model system, we selected human thyroid papillary cancer, in which the most common abnormalities, RET/papillary thyroid cancer rearrangements (fusion of RET kinase domain to the activating domains of other genes), were found in 40–45% of cases. We found that the mean expression levels of TRß mRNA and TR mRNA were significantly lower, whereas the protein levels of TRß1 and TR1 were higher in cancer tissues than in healthy thyroid. Sequencing of TRß1 and TR1 cDNAs, cloned from 16 papillary cancers, revealed that mutations affected receptor amino acid sequences in 93.75% and 62.5% of cases, respectively. In contrast, no mutations were found in healthy thyroid controls, and only 11.11% and 22.22% of thyroid adenomas had such TRß1 or TR1 mutations, respectively. The majority of the mutated TRs lost their trans-activation function and exhibited dominant negative activity. These findings suggest a possible role for mutated thyroid hormone receptors in the tumorigenesis of human papillary thyroid carcinoma.

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