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Expression of Sialyl 6-Sulfo Lewis X Is Inversely Correlated with Conventional Sialyl Lewis X Expression in Human Colorectal Cancer¹

Program of Experimental Pathology [M. I., K. K., C. M., A. K., R. K.] and Laboratory for Clinical Pathology [H. I., S. N.], Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, 464-8681; Central Clinical Laboratory, Kyoto University Hospital, Sakyoku, Kyoto 606-8501 [K. O.]; and Tokyo Research Laboratories, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo 194-8533 [K. K-M., K. S., T. N.], Japan

Sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X determinant has been described recently as a major ligand for L-selectin on high endothelial venules of human peripheral lymph nodes. From our investigation of its distribution in human colorectal cancer tissues and cultured colon cancer cells, the sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X determinant was preferentially expressed in the nonmalignant colonic epithelia rather than cancer cells (P < 0.001; n = 23). This was in contrast to the distribution of conventional sialyl Lewis X, which was preferentially expressed in cancer tissues rather than nonmalignant epithelia (P = 0.007; n = 23), indicating that 6-sulfation predominantly occurs in nonmalignant tissues and is suppressed upon malignant transformation. In confirmation of this, a nonsialylated determinant 6-sulfo Lewis X was also found to be preferentially localized in the nonmalignant epithelia. Significant expression of sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X was observed in only 2 lines, whereas 8 were positive for conventional sialyl Lewis X, among 13 cultured colon cancer cell lines. Transfection of cells with fucosyltransferase (Fuc-T) VI induced expression of sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X, whereas transfection of Fuc-T III did not, suggesting that the determinant was synthesized mainly by Fuc-T VI in colonic epithelia. Members of the sialic acid cyclase pathway, the de-N-acetyl sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X and cyclic sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X determinants, were also preferentially expressed in the nonmalignant epithelia rather than colonic cancer cells (P < 0.001; n = 23). Stimulation of the sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X-positive colon cancer cell line with a calcium ionophore ionomycin markedly reduced sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X and induced cyclic sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X expression. These results suggested that the metabolic conversion of sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X into cyclic sialyl 6-sulfo Lewis X by a calcium-dependent enzyme, sialic acid cyclase, as we hypothesized for human leukocytes previously (C. Mitsuoka et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96: 1597–1602, 1999), also occurs in nonmalignant colonic epithelia.

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