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[Cancer Research 62, 3663-3666, July 1, 2002]
© 2002 American Association for Cancer Research

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Methylation of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Endometrial Cancer Occurs More Frequently in Tumors with Microsatellite Instability Phenotype1

Michele Zysman, Asantha Saka, Anna Millar, Julia Knight, William Chapman and Bharati Bapat2

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute [M. Z., A. S., A. M., J. K., B. B.], Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine [M. Z., A. S., A. M., B. B.], Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X5; University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4 [W. C.]; and Department of Public Health Sciences [J. K.], and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine [M. Z., A. M., W. C., B. B.], University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 Canada


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Differential methylation is an important epigenetic control mechanism, which has been implicated in the development of a variety of cancers. Methylation of promoter regions of normally unmethylated tumor suppressor genes leads to transcriptional inactivation and ultimately to tumor formation. We hypothesized that epigenetic inactivation of adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), a key player in the suppressor pathway, may contribute to the development of endometrial cancer. We investigated APC methylation in endometrial adenocarcinoma specimens obtained from a series of patients (n = 114) and compared methylation profiles with microsatellite instability (MSI+) status. DNA microdissected from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded matched normal and tumor specimens, and a subset of associated endometrial hyperplasia was subjected to methylation-specific PCR of the APC promoter 1A region. Tumor-specific hypermethylation of APC with corresponding unmethylated normal endometrial tissue occurred in 43% (17 of 40) of MSI+ cases (P = 0.0007) and 16% (12 of 74) of microsatellite stable cases (P = 0.04). Interestingly, tumor tissue was unmethylated with normal tissue displaying APC methylation in 4% (5 of 114, 2MSI+ and 3 microsatellite stable) of cases. Endometrial cell lines AN3CA, RL95–2, and HEC-1B all displayed exclusive methylation of promoter 1A, and treatment of the AN3CA cell line with the demethylating agent 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine exhibited re-expression of APC as confirmed by RT-PCR analysis. Our results demonstrate APC methylation in endometrial cancer for the first time and show that APC hypermethylation occurs at an increased frequency in MSI+ endometrial tumors (P = 0.01).


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The Wnt cell-signaling pathway is among the key cellular developmental pathways. Dysregulation of this pathway has been implicated in the initiation and progression of cancer. APC3 is an important tumor suppressor gene of the Wnt signaling pathway. APC is located on chromosome 5q21 and consists of 8535 bp of coding sequence spanning a total of 21 exons (1) . Two promoters, 1A and 1B, have been identified for APC (2) . Promoter 1A is shown to regulate synthesis of the most common isoform of APC, which is encoded by exons 1–15. Mutations of APC predominantly occur in both inherited and sporadic colorectal cancers. Somatic APC mutations have been described in a number of extracolonic cancers, including gastric, pancreatic, thyroid, and ovarian (3) but rarely, if any, in ECs (4) .

The APC protein carries diverse functions, including regulation of ß-catenin, a key component of the Wnt signaling pathway. In the absence of growth and differentiation signals, ß-catenin forms a complex with APC, axin, and glycogen synthase kinase-3ß. APC regulates ß-catenin stability and turnover by mediating ß-catenin degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Either mutation of ß-catenin or loss of APC function results in the stabilization and subsequent nuclear accumulation of ß-catenin, which leads to the activation of several downstream target genes such as c-myc, cyclin D1, and matrilysin (5) . ß-catenin mutations occur in ECs and are described more frequently in MSS tumors (6 , 7) . Although the majority of endometrial tumors are MSS, a subset (~20%) is recognized by the MSI+ phenotype resulting from mismatch repair deficiency (8) . Occurrence of ß-catenin mutations implicates the Wnt signaling pathway in endometrial tumorigenesis, however, these mutations are seen at a low frequency, suggesting that alternative mechanisms may also contribute to the dysregulation of the Wnt pathway. One possible mechanism is functional inactivation of APC caused by mutations, allelic deletions, or via promoter hypermethylation.

Methylation of normally unmethylated genes, particularly tumor suppressors, has been shown to result in gene silencing and may ultimately lead to the development of cancer. Although there has been no evidence of APC promoter 1B methylation, methylation of promoter 1A and the accompanying loss of the APC transcript have been shown to occur in colorectal (9) , breast, lung (10) , esophageal, and pancreatic cancers (11) . In this study, we investigated whether inactivation of APC via promoter hypermethylation contributes to the development of EC. We report that APC hypermethylation is significantly associated with the MSI+ phenotype in endometrial tumors.


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Cell Lines.
EC cell lines AN3CA, HEC-1B, RL95–2, KLE, and colon cell line HT-29 were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA) and were maintained as described previously (12) , with the exception of KLE, which was maintained in a 1:1 mixture of Ham’s F-12 and DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS (Invitrogen Corp., Carlsbad, CA). DNA was extracted from cells using the DNeasy Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada).

Clinical Samples.
Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections of endometrial adenocarcinomas, as well as their associated hyperplasias and matched normal specimens (n = 114), were obtained from patients diagnosed at <50 years of age, according to a protocol approved by the Human Ethics Committee, University of Toronto. Five-µm H&E-stained sections were examined by a pathologist (W. C.) with expertise in gynecological oncology for confirmation of histology and cellularity. To minimize the field effect of APC methylation, every effort was made to obtain normal tissue (endometrium and/or myometrium) from a site completely separate from tumor tissue. Microsatellite status was determined as part of a previous study (13) . Genomic DNA was obtained as described previously (12) .

MSP.
Genomic DNA was modified using the sodium bisulfite method as described elsewhere (12) . APC promoter 1A (GenBank accession no. U02509) was amplified with the following primers: unmethylated primers APC-1A-UF, 5'-TGTGAGGGTATATTTTTGAGGGGTAT-3' and APC-1A-UR, 5'-CTTCTCTCTCCACTTCCCAACCCA-3', which amplified a 109-bp product (nucleotides 629–737); and methylated primers APC-1A-MF, 5'-GGTATATTTTCGAGGGGTACG-3' and APC-1A-MR, 5'-TTCCCGACCCGCACTCCGC-3', which amplified a 90-bp product (nucleotides 635–724). PCR was carried out at an annealing temperature of 65°C (unmethylated primers) or 57°C (methylated primers).

For promoter 1B, the unmethylated and methylated primers used were described previously (11) . Normal lymphocyte DNA supermethylated with SssI methyltransferase (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA) and subsequently treated with sodium metabisulfite served as the methylated control. Normal lymphocyte DNA treated with sodium metabisulfite alone was included as an unmethylated control. Untreated genomic DNA was also included as a negative control.

5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine Assay.
AN3CA cells (106 cells/plate) were treated with culture medium containing the demethylating agent 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (2 µg/ml; Sigma-Aldrich, Oakville, Ontario, Canada) for 0, 2, and 4 days with media changed every 2 days. Cells were harvested for DNA using trypsinization and for RNA using the GenElute Mammalian Total RNA Kit (Sigma-Aldrich).

RT-PCR.
After extraction, RNA was treated with DNase I (1 unit/µg RNA; Sigma-Aldrich) to eliminate any contaminating DNA, followed by first-strand cDNA synthesis (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ). RT-PCR of APC gene transcripts spanning exons 1A, 1B, 1, 3, 5, and 9 was performed on 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine-treated and -untreated AN3CA cDNA. Forward primers were designed as follows: 1A-RT-F, 5'-GAGACAGAATGGAGGTGCTGC-3' (11) ; and 1B-RT-F, 5'-GCGAGCAGGAGCTGCGT-3' (14) . Reverse primers for exons 1, 3, 5, and 9 were designed as follows: 1-RT-R, 5'-GTAAGATGATTGGAATTATCTTCTA-3' (11) ; 3-RT-R, 5'-GAACCCATAGGAACAGGACTG-3'; 5-RT-R, 5'-TCGCTGTGCTCGTTTTTCC-3'; and 9-RT-R, 5'-AGCCTCTTTACTGCCCCG-3'. All reactions were carried out at an annealing temperature of 59°C. As a control, RT-PCR of the housekeeping gene ß-actin was performed as described previously (15) .

Statistical Analysis.
Statistical analysis was performed using McNemar’s test for paired normal and tumor samples. A matched analysis was used as each tumor sample was compared with normal tissue from the same patient. The association between methylation and MSI+ status in tumor samples was analyzed using Fisher’s exact test. Ps <0.05 were considered statistically significant.


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We examined the methylation status of APC promoter 1A in a panel of endometrial cell lines, primary endometrial adenocarcinomas, corresponding hyperplasia, and normal endometrial tissue. Twenty-five percent (29 of 114) of all endometrial tumors were methylated with corresponding unmethylated normal tissue (i.e., hypermethylation; Table 1Citation ). Using McNemar’s test, this degree of tumor hypermethylation was found to be extremely significant (P < 0.0001). The role of APC in endometrial tumorigenesis is poorly understood. Previous studies have described a low frequency of loss of heterozygosity at the APC locus (16 , 17) while somatic APC mutations have never been reported in EC (4) . Our results, taken together with these observations, suggest the epigenetic mechanism of promoter methylation rather than somatic mutation is responsible for APC inactivation in EC.


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  		Table 1 APC methylation frequency in MSI+ versus MSS tumors

 
In our study, 43% (17 of 40) of MSI+ tumors with corresponding unmethylated normal tissue showed hypermethylation compared with 16% (12 of 74) of MSS tumors. Using Fisher’s exact test, APC methylation was found to be more significantly associated with MSI+ status compared with MSS (P = 0.01). In both groups, the tumor tissue was more likely to show APC methylation than the corresponding normal tissue (P = 0.0007 in MSI+ cases and P = 0.04 in MSS cases). These results suggest the existence of distinct subtypes of ECs that is recognized by a combination of mismatch repair deficiency and APC methylation status. Among the panel of endometrial cell lines examined, AN3CA, HEC-1B, and RL95-2 displayed exclusive methylation of promoter 1A (Fig. 1)Citation , whereas the endometrial cell line KLE and colon cell line HT-29 were exclusively unmethylated for both APC promoters. Interestingly, all endometrial cell lines with APC methylation also display the MSI+ phenotype (18) , whereas the KLE cell line with the MSS phenotype (19) was not methylated. Therefore, the endometrial cell line data also reflects our findings of increased APC methylation in MSI+ tumors compared with those that are MSS. Previous studies have shown MLH1 hypermethylation to be the principal mechanism underlying development of MSI+ in EC (20) . In MSI+ colorectal cancers, a "hypermethylator" phenotype has been proposed, characterized by an increased frequency of global methylation of several candidate genes (21) . Our observation of an increased frequency of APC methylation in MSI+ EC is consistent with these findings. Alternatively, increased hypermethylation of APC in MSI+ EC may constitute a molecular mechanism parallel to ß-catenin mutations seen in MSS tumors, both genetic alterations resulting in aberrant activation of the Wnt pathway in a subset of EC. Interestingly, of 114 cases, 5 showed methylation of normal tissue with corresponding unmethylated tumors and 4 exhibited identical methylation profiles of both the tumor and the corresponding normal tissue (Table 1)Citation . The significance of APC methylation in normal endometrium, as well as sustained methylation status (i.e., hypomethylation or hypermethylation) among matched normal and tumor pairs, and its implication in EC is not yet known.



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  		Fig. 1. In A, representative cases normal, hyperplasia, and tumor are shown for MSP of APC promoter 1A. Methylation was apparent as early as simple hyperplasia. In B, MSP results for APC promoter 1A and 1B are shown in cell lines and control NL DNA. NL DNA treated with SssI methyltransferase was used as a methylated positive control, whereas untreated NL DNA was an unmethylated control. U, unmethylated; M, methylated; NL, normal lymphocyte DNA; N, normal; SH, simple hyperplasia; T, tumor.

 
Endometrial hyperplasia, specifically atypical hyperplasia, is a premalignant lesion, which may progress to EC in some cases. This progression requires certain genetic changes that occur early and confer a growth advantage during hyperplasia to neoplasia transition. For example, mutations of PTEN, a "gatekeeper" of the endometrium, have been reported in endometrial adenocarcinomas and associated simple, atypical, and complex hyperplastic lesions (22) . Of the 29 cases with tumor methylation of APC in our study, endometrial hyperplasia adjacent to tumors was available for 8 MSI+ cases. In 7 of 8 cases, we observed sustained APC promoter 1A methylation in the hyperplasia-carcinoma sequence (Fig. 1)Citation . Two cases manifested simple hyperplasia alone, 4 cases showed atypical hyperplasia alone, and there was both simple and atypical hyperplasia in 2 cases. Both simple and atypical endometrial hyperplastic lesions displayed methylation, except in 1 case with atypical hyperplasia alone and in 1 case of both simple and atypical hyperplasia with only the atypical hyperplasia displaying methylation. Our observations of APC methylation in the early precursor lesions suggest that APC methylation may contribute to the development of endometrial tumorigenesis.

APC promoter methylation has been associated with a lack of APC expression in colorectal and pancreatic cancers (11) . We treated the endometrial cell line AN3CA, which is exclusively methylated at APC promoter 1A, with the demethylating agent 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine to determine whether expression of a functional APC protein could be restored. As early as 2 days after treatment with the demethylating agent, MSP analysis indicated an unmethylated APC product (Fig. 2)Citation , whereas RT-PCR analysis demonstrated APC transcripts initiated from promoter 1A and spanning exons 1, 3, 5, and 9. As expected, MSP analysis of APC promoter 1B in endometrial cell lines and in a subset of endometrial tumors revealed an absence of methylation (data not shown). These results are consistent with published reports of a lack of promoter 1B methylation in colon, breast, and lung tumors (11) .



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  		Fig. 2. Results for the cell line AN3CA are shown after treatment with the demethylating agent 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. As early as 2 days after treatment, following MSP, an unmethylated band can be seen (top panel) showing that expression of APC is restored. Representative RT-PCR results are shown (middle and bottom panels) for the promoter 1A-exon 1 region and promoter 1B-exon 1 region of APC. Expression of the APC 1A transcript is not seen in the control because AN3CA is exclusively methylated at the 1A promoter. APC transcript initiated from promoter 1B is seen in all lanes. The housekeeping gene ß-actin is shown as a control.

 
In EC, despite relative paucity of ß-catenin and APC mutations, aberrant Wnt signaling is observed as increased nuclear accumulation of ß-catenin (23) . Regulation of ß-catenin is mediated either by members of the Wnt pathway or via functional interactions with key candidates implicated in other cell signaling pathways. In this context, a recently described role of PTEN in the regulation of ß-catenin is particularly intriguing (24) . PTEN is shown to induce glycogen synthase kinase-3ß activity, leading to increased phosphorylation of ß-catenin and its subsequent degradation. It has also been suggested that PTEN may regulate the translocation of ß-catenin from the nucleus but additional studies are necessary to verify this. Furthermore, the frequency and mutational spectra of PTEN alterations are similar in sporadic MSI+ versus MSS ECs (25) . Taken together with our observations of APC methylation in both MSI+ and MSS ECs, as well as its occurrence in premalignant lesions, suggest that aberrant Wnt signaling may occur in the early stages of EC.

In summary, we have shown APC methylation in a significant proportion of endometrial tumors and cell lines. Hypermethylation of APC in endometrial tumors is frequently associated with the MSI+ phenotype. Methylation of APC is also observed at the earliest stages of endometrial tumorigenesis, including simple, complex, and atypical hyperplasias. We believe that these findings are significant and suggest that methylation of APC contributes to the development of EC.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We thank Dr. Eric Holowaty for assistance with patient accrual, Dr. Peter Laird for the bisulfite-modification protocol, and Adam Firestone for assistance with preparation of figures.


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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 a grant from Concern Foundation (to B. B.) and American Institute for Cancer Research Grant 99BO55 (to B. B., J. K.). M. Z. is a recipient of a University of Toronto Open Fellowship. Back

2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada. Phone: (416) 586-5175; Fax: (416) 586-8844; E-mail: bapat{at}mshri.on.ca Back

3 The abbreviations used are: APC, adenomatous polyposis coli; EC, endometrial cancer; MSS, microsatellite stable; MSI+, microsatellite instability; MSP, methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR. Back

Received 4/ 5/02. Accepted 5/15/02.


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