Anti-FIRs (PUF60) auto-antibodies are detected in the sera of early-stage colon cancer patients

Sohei Kobayashi, Tyuji Hoshino, Takaki Hiwasa, Mamoru Satoh, Bahityar Rahmutulla, Sachio Tsuchida, Yuji Komukai, Tomoaki Tanaka, Hisahiro Matsubara, Hideaki Shimada, Fumio Nomura, Kazuyuki Matsushita

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Abstract

Anti-PUF60, poly(U)-binding-splicing factor, autoantibodies are reported to be detected in the sera of dermatomyositis and Sjogren's syndrome that occasionally associated with malignancies. PUF60 is identical with far-upstream element-binding protein-interacting repressor (FIR) that is a transcriptional repressor of c-myc gene. In colorectal cancers, a splicing variant of FIR that lacks exon2 (FIRΔexon2) is overexpressed as a dominant negative form of FIR. In this study, to reveal the presence and the significance of anti-FIRs (FIR/FIRΔexon2) antibodies in cancers were explored in the sera of colorectal and other cancer patients. Anti-FIRs antibodies were surely detected in the preoperative sera of 28 colorectal cancer patients (32.2% of positive rates), and the detection rate was significantly higher than that in healthy control sera (Mann-Whitney U test, p < 0.01). The level of anti-FIRs antibodies significantly decreased after the operation (p < 0.01). Anti-FIRs antibodies were detected in the sera of early-stage and/or recurrent colon cancer patients in which anti-p53 antibodies, CEA, and CA19-9 were not detected as well as in the sera of other cancer patients. Furthermore, the area under the curve of receiver operating characteristic for anti-FIRs antibodies was significantly larger (0.85) than that for anti-p53 antibodies or CA19-9. In conclusions, the combination of anti-FIRs antibodies with other clinically available tumor markers further improved the specificity and accuracy of cancer diagnosis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)82493-82503
Number of pages11
JournalOncotarget
Volume7
Issue number50
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Auto-antibodies
  • Cancer biomarker
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Far-upstream element-binding protein-interacting repressor (FIR) = poly(U)-binding-splicing factor (PUF60)

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