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Allelic loss and reduced expression of the ING3, a candidate tumor suppressor gene at 7q31, in human head and neck cancers

Oncogene volume 21, pages 4462–4470 (2002)Cite this article

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Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) has been frequently detected at chromosome 7q31 region in human head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) and many other cancers, suggesting the existence of tumor suppressor genes (TSG). We analysed LOH at 7q31 region in 49 HNSCC by using six polymorphic microsatellite markers and found allelic deletion in 48% (22/46) of the informative cases. We detected two preferentially deleted regions, one is around D7S643 and the other around D7S486. When we redefined the map of 7q31 region according to the contiguous sequences, a recently identified gene, ING3, was found in the proximity of D7S643. ING3 protein harbors the PHD domain highly homologous among ING family proteins, in which we previously found mutations in a related gene, ING1. As only one missense mutation of the ING3 gene was found in HNSCC, we examined the expression level. Reverse-transcription-PCR analysis demonstrated decreased or no expression of ING3 mRNA in 50% of primary tumors as compared with that of matched normal samples. Especially, about 63% of tongue and larynx tumors showed the decrease and a tendency of higher mortality was observed in cases with decreased ING3 expression. All these findings suggest a possibility that the ING3 gene functions as a TSG in a subset of HNSCC.

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We would like to thank cell depositors, Drs M Urade, T Okabe and M Miyake for their kind approval for the cell distribution through cell bank. We thank T Fujiwara, A Sakai and H Hanafusa for technical support and the surgeons in the Department of Otolaryngology of our Medical School for providing fresh specimens. This work was supported by grants-in-aids from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to K Shimizu.

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, Shikata 2-5-1, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan

    Mehmet Gunduz, Kunihiro Fukushima, Tomoko Nakashima & Kazunori Nishizaki

  2. Department of Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, Shikata 2-5-1, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan

    Mamoru Ouchida, Sachio Ito, Yoshimi Jitsumori & Kenji Shimizu

  3. Department of Oral Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, Shikata 2-5-1, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan

    Mehmet Gunduz & Noriyuki Nagai

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Gunduz, M., Ouchida, M., Fukushima, K. et al. Allelic loss and reduced expression of the ING3, a candidate tumor suppressor gene at 7q31, in human head and neck cancers. Oncogene 21, 4462–4470 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1205540

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