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[Cancer Research 61, 6996-7001, October 1, 2001]
© 2001 American Association for Cancer Research

Advances in Brief

Secreted and Cell Surface Genes Expressed in Benign and Malignant Colorectal Tumors1

Phillip Buckhaults, Carlo Rago, Brad St. Croix, Katharine E. Romans, Saurabh Saha, Lin Zhang, Bert Vogelstein and Kenneth W. Kinzler2

Howard Hughes Medical Institute [P. B., C. R., B. V.] and Johns Hopkins Oncology Center [B. S. C., K. E. R., S. S., L. Z., B. V., K. W. K.], Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21231


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Serial analysis of gene expression was used to identify transcripts encoding secreted or cell surface proteins that were expressed in benign and malignant tumors of the colorectum. A total of 290,394 tags were analyzed from normal, adenomatous, and cancerous colonic epithelium. Of the 21,343 different transcripts observed, 957 were found to be differentially expressed between normal tissue and adenoma or between normal tissue and cancer. Forty-nine transcripts were elevated >=20-fold in adenomas, 40 transcripts were elevated >=20-fold in cancers, and 9 transcripts were elevated >=20-fold in both. Products of six of these nine transcripts (TGFBI, LYS, RDP, MIC-1, REGA, and DEHL) were predicted to be secreted or to reside on the cell surface, and these were analyzed in more detail. The abnormal expression levels predicted by serial analysis of gene expression were confirmed by quantitative PCR analyses of each of these six genes. Moreover, the cell types responsible for the elevated expression were identified by in situ hybridization and by PCR analyses of epithelial cells immunoaffinity purified from primary tumors. This study extends knowledge of the differences in gene expression that underlie various stages of neoplasia and suggests specific diagnostic approaches that may be useful for the early detection of colorectal neoplasia.


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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, with ~135,000 patients diagnosed each year and ~55,000 ultimately succumbing to the disease (1) . Most colorectal cancers develop slowly, beginning as small benign colorectal adenomas that progress over several decades to larger and more dysplastic lesions that eventually become malignant. This gradual progression provides multiple opportunities for prevention and intervention. Indeed, benign adenomas can be detected and removed by simple colonoscopy and polypectomy, precluding the need for radical surgical and adjuvant treatments. It is therefore believed that early detection and removal of these benign neoplasms provide the best hope for minimizing morbidity and mortality from colorectal cancer. Various screening methods for detecting early colorectal tumors are available, such as fecal occult blood testing, sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy (reviewed in Ref. 2 ). However, none of these methods are optimal, and new approaches are needed. In an effort to identify potential molecular markers of early colorectal tumors, we have here analyzed gene expression in benign and malignant colorectal tumors in an unbiased and comprehensive fashion. Our results, which are reported below, demonstrate that several genes are expressed at markedly higher levels in both benign and malignant tumors compared with normal colonic epithelium. Furthermore, several of the most differentially expressed genes are extracellular, thereby providing opportunities for clinical application.


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SAGE.3
For the initial SAGE of benign tumors, fresh adenomas were obtained from surgical specimens derived from familial adenomatous polyposis patients. Adenomas from familial adenomatous polyposis patients were used because of the ready availability of small lesions and the certainty of inactivation of the adenomatous polyposis coli pathway that initiates the formation of the majority of sporadic tumors. After histopathological verification of the neoplastic nature of the lesion (>70% neoplastic cells), total RNA was isolated by solubilizing the tissue in RNAgents Lysis Buffer (Promega, Madison, WI) followed by ultracentrifugation over a cesium chloride gradient. mRNA selection was performed from the purified total RNA using oligo(dT) cellulose (Life Technologies, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD). Two adenoma SAGE libraries were prepared as described previously (3 , 4) and sequenced to a total depth of over 90,000 transcript tags. For SAGE of normal and malignant tissues, four previously described normal (NC-1 and NC-2) and primary cancer (Tu-98 and Tu-102) SAGE libraries were used (4) . In collaboration with the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (5) , the analyses of these libraries were extended from a total of 123,046 transcripts in the previously published work to 195,160 transcripts in the current work. Tags were extracted from the raw sequence data, and after excluding repeated ditags, linker sequences, and tags from the polymorphic major histocompatibility loci, the resulting tag libraries were compared, and statistical analysis was performed using SAGE software, version 4.0. Data from the libraries are publicly available,4 as are detailed SAGE protocols.5

Quantitative PCR.
Tumors were collected, snap frozen, and stored at -80°C. They were verified to be composed predominantly of neoplastic cells by histopathological analysis. mRNA was isolated from tumors and patient-matched normal colonic mucosa using QuickPrep reagents (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech UK, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), and single-stranded cDNA was synthesized using Superscript II (Life Technologies, Inc.). Quantitative PCR was performed using an iCycler (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA), and threshold cycle numbers were determined using iCycler software, version 2.1. Reactions were performed in triplicate, and threshold cycle numbers were averaged. All genes examined were normalized to a control gene (ß-amyloid precursor protein, shown by SAGE to be expressed at equivalent levels in all colorectal samples), and fold induction was calculated according to the formula 2(Rt-Et)/2(Rn-En) where Rt is the threshold cycle number for the reference gene observed in the tumor, Et is the threshold cycle number for the experimental gene observed in the tumor, Rn is the threshold cycle number for the reference gene observed in the normal tissue, and En is the threshold cycle number for the experimental gene observed in the normal tissue. The primers used for quantitative PCR were obtained from GeneLink (Hawthorne, NY), and their sequences are available on request.

Epithelial Cell Immunoaffinity Purification.
Tumor epithelial cells were purified using a modification of the procedure developed previously for the isolation of tumor endothelial cells (6) . In brief, fresh surgical specimens of tumor and matched normal tissue were obtained and digested with collagenase, and the resulting material was filtered through a nylon mesh to obtain single cell suspensions. The cells were then bound to a mixture of anti-CD14 and anti-CD45 immunomagnetic beads (Dynal, Oslo, Norway) to deplete the population of hematopoietic cells (negative selection). The remaining cell suspension was then incubated with anti-Ber-EP4 immunomagnetic beads to isolate epithelial cells (positive selection). Purified cells were lysed directly on the beads, and mRNA was purified using QuickPrep reagents (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech UK).

In Situ Hybridization.
Nonradioactive in situ hybridization was performed as described previously (6) . For each gene analyzed, a mixture of antisense probes made through in vitro transcription was used to increase sensitivity. The primers used to generate templates for the synthesis of the in situ riboprobes were obtained from GeneLink, and their sequences are available on request.


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We used SAGE to analyze global gene expression in normal, benign, and malignant colorectal tissue. SAGE is a gene expression profiling method that associates individual mRNA transcripts with 15-base tags derived from specific positions near their 3' termini (3) . The abundance of each tag provides a quantitative measure of the transcript level present within the mRNA population studied. SAGE is not dependent on preexisting databases of expressed genes and therefore provides an unbiased view of gene expression profiles. For the current study, SAGE libraries derived from two samples of normal colonic epithelium, two colorectal adenomas, and two colorectal cancers were analyzed. These libraries contained a combined total of 290,394 transcript tags representing 21,343 different transcripts (Table 1)Citation .


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  		Table 1 Summary of SAGE data

 
Two comparisons were performed, one between the adenoma and normal samples, and one between the cancer and normal samples. These comparisons revealed 957 transcript tags that were differentially expressed >2-fold between normal and tumor tissue (Table 2)Citation . A comparison of the fold change in adenomas versus cancers revealed that many transcripts were similarly elevated or repressed in both adenomas and cancers, although the magnitude often varied (Fig. 1A)Citation . Indeed, the majority (79%) of tags were in quadrants of the plot indicative of concordant elevation or repression.


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  		Table 2 Differentially expressed transcripts in benign and malignant tumor colorectal tissue

 


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  		Fig. 1. A, distribution of the fold changes of differentially expressed transcript tags. Transcripts in which the significance criterion was met (P < 0.05, a total of 957 tags) in the comparisons between normal tissue and adenoma or normal tissue and cancer are plotted in the figure. The ratios of adenoma to normal and cancer to normal were plotted on a log scale. The shaded box shown in A and enlarged in B encloses the transcript tags detailed in Table 3Citation . The two unlabeled dots in B correspond to tags whose differential expression could not be confirmed by quantitative PCR, suggesting that the tags were derived from different transcripts than the ones indicated in Table 3Citation .

 
From both practical and biological perspectives, those changes showing the greatest magnitude were deemed the most interesting. In this regard, 49 tags were identified to be elevated by >=20-fold in the adenomas, and 40 were elevated by >=20-fold in the cancers (Table 2)Citation . Conversely, there were 72 transcripts that were decreased by >=20-fold in adenomas, and 52 transcripts were decreased by >=20-fold in the cancers (Table 2)Citation .

There were 9 transcripts that were elevated by >=20-fold in both adenomas and cancers (Fig. 1BCitation and Table 3Citation ) and 23 that were repressed by >=20-fold (Table 4)Citation . We were especially interested in genes whose products were predicted to be secreted or displayed on the cell surface because these would be particularly suitable for the development of serologic or imaging tests for presymptomatic neoplasia, respectively. We were able to identify six such genes (TGFBI, LYS, RDP, MIC-1, REGA, and DEHL) from among those whose transcript tags were elevated in both adenoma and carcinoma SAGE libraries. These genes were analyzed further, as described below.


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  		Table 3 Transcripts most elevated in adenomas and cancersa

 

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  		Table 4 Transcripts most repressed in adenomas and cancersa

 
To verify the increased expression of these six genes, we used quantitative reverse transcription-PCR techniques to analyze the expression in seven colorectal neoplasms (three sporadic adenomas and four sporadic cancers) and matched normal colonic mucosa. For these assays, specific primers were developed that resulted in amplification from cDNA but not genomic DNA. Controls were provided by similar quantitative PCR assays of a gene whose expression was found to be very similar in the SAGE libraries of normal and neoplastic colon (ß-amyloid precursor protein). The quantitative PCR experiments verified that five of the six selected genes (TGFBI, LYS, RDP, MIC-1, and REGA) were expressed at significantly higher levels in every neoplastic sample analyzed compared with patient-matched normal mucosa (Fig. 2)Citation . Several tumors exhibited >=20-fold higher levels of the studied transcripts compared with their patient-matched normal colonic mucosa, as predicted by SAGE. Another control was provided by the quantitative PCR analysis of four genes whose expression was observed to be reduced in the SAGE libraries prepared from adenomas and cancers compared with those from normal colonic mucosa. As shown in Fig. 3Citation , the quantitative PCR confirmed the lower levels of expression of each of these genes, emphasizing that the dramatic elevations in expression observed in Fig. 2Citation represented gene-specific phenomena.



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  		Fig. 2. Quantitative PCR analysis of genes elevated in both adenomas and cancers. Quantitation of expression of genes in tumors and matched normal tissues from five patients (Pt) is shown as fold elevation over that in matched normal colonic mucosa. Each bar represents the average of three independent measurements. TGFBI, LYS, RDP, MIC-1, REGA, and DEHL are as described in Table 3Citation .

 


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  		Fig. 3. Quantitative PCR analysis of genes decreased in both adenomas and cancers. Quantitation of expression of genes in tumors and matched normal tissue from five patients (Pt) is shown as a fraction of matched normal. Each bar represents the average of three independent measurements. CA2 and DRA are described in Table 4Citation . Dual specificity phosphatase (DUSP1) and acid sphingomylenase-like phosphodiesterase (ASML3a) represent transcripts that were repressed but did not meet the stringent criteria required for inclusion in Table 4Citation . SAGE data indicated that DUSP1 was 5- and 76-fold repressed in adenomas and cancers, respectively. ASML3a was 15-fold repressed in both adenoma and cancer.

 
The quantitative PCR data obtained from mRNA isolated from whole tumors provided independent evidence that SAGE provided an accurate indication of gene expression changes in colorectal neoplasia. However, neither analysis identified the cell types responsible for the increased expression. Nonneoplastic stromal cells within tumors may be considerably different than those in normal colonic mucosa (6) , and the epithelial derivation of gene expression differences cannot reliably be concluded without direct supporting evidence. We therefore sought to determine whether the epithelial cells of cancers express elevated levels of the six genes depicted in Fig. 2Citation . First, we affinity-purified cancerous and patient-matched normal epithelial cells from fresh surgical specimens using immunomagnetic beads directed to the panepithelial marker Ber-EP4, prepared cDNA, and performed quantitative PCR analysis to determine the expression levels of the elevated genes as described above. Elevated expression was observed in the purified tumor epithelial cells for each of the six genes examined (Fig. 4)Citation , demonstrating that at least some of the increased expression was derived from epithelial cells. However, relative expression of LYS was not as prominent or reproducible in the purified epithelial cells as it was in the mRNA from the unfractionated tumors, suggesting that other cell types might have contributed transcripts from this gene.



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  		Fig. 4. Quantitative PCR analysis of mRNA from purified epithelial cells of genes elevated in both adenomas and cancers. Quantitation of expression of genes in the purified normal (N) or cancer (Ca) epithelial cells taken from two patients is shown as fold elevation over matched normal. Genes examined were the same as those in Fig. 2Citation .

 
Second, we performed in situ hybridization to RNA in frozen sections of tumors for five of the genes showing the most consistent elevation. DEHL was found to be elevated in only five of the nine tumors examined and was not investigated further. To increase the sensitivity of detection, we generated several RNA probes for each tested gene using in vitro transcription techniques. The results obtained are discussed below in conjunction with brief overviews of each of the five genes of interest.

Regenerating islet-derived pancreatic stone protein, encoded by the REGA gene, is a secreted polypeptide first found in pancreatic precipitates and stones from patients suffering from chronic pancreatitis (7) . The cDNA encoding this protein was isolated from a random screen of genes highly expressed in a regenerating islet-derived cDNA library (8) and subsequently shown to be elevated in colorectal cancers (9) . More recently, REGA was isolated in a hybridization-based screen for genes elevated in colorectal cancers and shown to be elevated in many colorectal adenocarcinomas (10) . Consistent with these published observations, we observed a strong elevation in expression of REGA in unpurified tumors and a similar elevation in one purified tumor. In situ hybridization experiments demonstrated REGA to be strongly expressed in the epithelial cells of the tumors, with no expression evident in the stroma (Fig. 5A)Citation .



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  		Fig. 5. In situ hybridization analyses of elevated genes. Genes examined were REGA (A), TGFBI (B), LYS (C), RDP (D), and MIC-1 (E). Positive cells appear red, arrows point to clusters of malignant epithelial cells, and arrowheads point to macrophages.

 
TGF-ß-induced gene (TGFBI) encodes a small polypeptide of unknown function initially isolated through a differential display screen for genes induced in response to treatment with TGF-ß (11) . The protein is expressed in the keratinocytes of the cornea, (12) and, interestingly, germ-line mutations of this gene cause familial corneal dystrophies (13) . TGFBI was previously shown to be among the most significantly elevated genes in colorectal cancers (4) , and our new data show that it is expressed at high levels in adenomas as well. Quantitative PCR results demonstrated strong elevation in both unpurified tumors and purified tumor epithelial cells. Accordingly, in situ hybridization experiments revealed TGFBI to be expressed in many cell types, in both the stromal and epithelial compartments (Fig. 5B)Citation .

Lysozyme (LYS, 1,4-ß-N-acetylmuramidase; EC 3.2.1.17) is an enzyme with bacteriolytic activity (14) capable of cleaving ß1,4 glycosidic bonds found in the cell walls of Gram-positive bacteria. The enzyme is expressed in the secretory granules of monocytes, macrophages, and leukocytes, as well as in the Paneth cells of the gastrointestinal tract. Fecal lysozyme levels are dramatically elevated in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (15 , 16) , and serum lysozyme activity is significantly elevated in patients with sarcoidosis (17) , both of which are diseases characterized by aberrant chronic inflammation. Furthermore, lysozyme immunoreactivity has been observed in the epithelial cells of both adenomas and carcinomas of the large intestine (18) . In our study, the degree of elevation of expression of LYS varied from 4-fold to 55-fold in the unpurified samples. In contrast, the degree of elevation of expression of LYS observed in purified epithelial cells was only 2–5 fold. This suggested that a substantial portion of the expression for this gene in the tumors could have been derived from nonepithelial cells. Consistent with this hypothesis, in situ hybridization experiments revealed that the majority of LYS mRNA was present in a stromal component that appeared to be macrophages (Fig. 5C)Citation . The expression of LYS in the macrophage compartment of colorectal tumors was also supported by its high representation in a SAGE library constructed from hematopoietic cells (CD45+, CD64+, and CD14+) purified from colorectal tumors (602 LYS tags/56,643 total tags; Ref. 6 ).

One interesting gene identified in the current study is renal dipeptidase (RDP). RDP is a glycosylphosphatidyl inositol-anchored enzyme whose major site of expression is the epithelial cells of the proximal tubules of the kidney (reviewed in Ref. 19 ). The enzyme has been extensively analyzed with respect to its catalytic mechanism and inhibition kinetics by a variety of synthetic inhibitors. RDP is unique among the dipeptidases in that it can cleave amide bonds in which the COOH-terminal partner is a D-amino acid, providing an excellent opportunity for the development of specific probes for its detection in vivo. Quantitative PCR revealed RDP to be markedly elevated in both unpurified and purified tumor epithelial cells, and in situ hybridization experiments showed that RDP was localized exclusively to epithelial cells of colorectal tumors (Fig. 5D)Citation .

Macrophage inhibitory cytokine (MIC-1) is a small polypeptide of Mr 16,000 first isolated from a differential screen for genes that were induced on macrophage activation (20) . Concurrently, it was identified by a search for molecules homologous to the bone morphogenic protein/TGF-ß family of growth and differentiation factors (21) . In addition to being highly expressed in activated macrophages, MIC-1 has been noted to be highly expressed in placenta and the epithelial cells of normal prostate. In the current study, we found MIC-1 expression to be elevated between 7- and 133-fold in the unpurified tumors. As observed for LYS, the purified tumor cells demonstrated significant but less elevation of expression of MIC-1 (5–7-fold), indirectly implicating stromal expression to be partly responsible for the dramatic elevation seen in some tumors. Consistent with this hypothesis, in situ hybridization experiments revealed expression in both the epithelium of the tumor and a cell type resembling infiltrating macrophages (Fig. 5E)Citation .

The results summarized above show that although a large number of tags are observed in the colorectal tissues analyzed, only a small fraction (957 of 21,343; <5%) were expressed differentially in benign or malignant neoplastic tissues. A similarly small fraction of genes [66 of 4000 (1.7%)] were found to be aberrantly expressed in colorectal neoplasms using oligonucleotide arrays (22) . Analysis of these differentially expressed genes not only has the potential to provide insights into the biology of human neoplasia but may also have clinically useful applications. One of the most exciting potential applications concerns the identification of genes whose products provide cellular and serum markers for colorectal neoplasia. The ideal tumor marker would be expected to have several characteristics. First, it should be expressed at high levels in tumors and at greatly reduced levels in normal tissues. Second, the elevated expression should occur early and remain elevated during the neoplastic process. Third, such a marker should be elevated in the majority of clinical samples. Fourth, the marker should be expressed on the cell surface or secreted to facilitate its detection. Previous application of a subset of these criteria led to the identification of a marker that was elevated in the serum of patients with pancreatic cancer (23) . In the current study, we identified several genes that appeared to meet all of these criteria and may therefore be especially useful for the development of diagnostic tools for the early detection of presymptomatic colorectal neoplasia. Indeed, the product of one of these genes (MIC-1) has recently been found to be elevated in the serum of patients with colorectal and other cancers, providing further validation of this approach.6


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The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

1 Supported by NIH Grants CA43460, CA57345, and CA62924. K. W. K. received research funding from Genzyme Molecular Oncology (Genzyme), and K. W. K. and B. V. are consultants to Genzyme. Under a licensing agreement between the Johns Hopkins University and Genzyme, the SAGE technology was licensed to Genzyme, and K. W. K. and B. V. are entitled to a share of royalty received by the Johns Hopkins University from sales of the licensed technology. The SAGE technology is freely available to academia for research purposes. The Johns Hopkins University, K. W. K., and B. V. own Genzyme stock, which is subject to certain restrictions under university policy. The terms of this arrangement are being managed by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. Back

2 To whom correspondence should be addressed, at The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Cancer Research Building Room 588, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. Phone: (410) 955-2928; Fax: (410) 955-0548; E-mail: kinzlke{at}jhmi.edu Back

3 The abbreviations used are: SAGE, serial analysis of gene expression; TGF, transforming growth factor. Back

4 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sage. Back

5 www.sagenet.org/sage_protocol.htm. Back

6 D. A. Brown, T. Liu, R. L. Ward, N. J. Hawkins, W. D. Fairlie, A. R. Bauskin, P. J. Russell, D. I. Quinn, J. J. Grygiel, A. G. Moore, R. L. Sutherland, J. Turner, E. A. Kingsley, and S. N. Breit. Macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1) in epithelial neoplasia, submitted for publication. Back

Received 6/22/01. Accepted 8/ 2/01.


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