%0 Journal Article
%A Gayarre, Javier
%A Kamieniak, Marta M
%A Cazorla-Jiménez, Alicia
%A Muñoz-Repeto, Ivan
%A Borrego, Salud
%A García-Donas, Jesús
%A Hernando, Susana
%A Robles-Díaz, Luis
%A García-Bueno, José M
%A Ramón Y Cajal, Teresa
%A Hernández-Agudo, Elena
%A Heredia Soto, Victoria
%A Márquez-Rodas, Ivan
%A Echarri, María José
%A Lacambra-Calvet, Carmen
%A Sáez, Raquel
%A Cusidó, Maite
%A Redondo, Andrés
%A Paz-Ares, Luis
%A Hardisson, David
%A Mendiola, Marta
%A Palacios, José
%A Benítez, Javier
%A García, María José
%T The NER-related gene GTF2H5 predicts survival in high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients.
%D 2015
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/10405
%X We aimed to evaluate the prognostic and predictive value of the nucleotide excision repair-related gene GTF2H5, which is localized at the 6q24.2-26 deletion previously reported by our group to predict longer survival of high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients. In order to test if protein levels of GTF2H5 are associated with patients' outcome, we performed GTF2H5 immunohistochemical staining in 139 high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas included in tissue microarrays. Upon stratification of cases into high- and low-GTF2H5 staining categories (> and ≤ median staining, respectively) Kaplan-Meier and log-rank test were used to estimate patients' survival and assess statistical differences. We also evaluated the association of GTF2H5 with survival at the transcriptional level by using the on-line Kaplan-Meier plotter tool, which includes gene expression and survival data of 855 high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients from 13 different datasets. Finally, we determined whether stable short hairpin RNA-mediated GTF2H5 downregulation modulates cisplatin sensitivity in the SKOV3 and COV504 cell lines by using cytotoxicity assays. Low expression of GTF2H5 was associated with longer 5-year survival of patients at the protein (hazard ratio [HR], 0.52; 95% CI, 0.29 to 0.93; p=0.024) and transcriptional level (HR, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.65 to 0.97; p=0.023) in high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients. We confirmed the association with 5-year overall survival (HR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.38 to 0.78; p=0.0007) and also found an association with progression-free survival (HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.54 to 0.96; p=0.026) in a homogenous group of 388 high-stage (stages III-IV using the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging system), optimally debulked high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients. GTF2H5-silencing induced a decrease of the half maximal inhibitory concentration upon cisplatin treatment in GTF2H5-silenced ovarian cancer cells. Low levels of GTF2H5 are associated with enhanced prognosis in high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients and may contribute to cisplatin sensitization.
%K 6q24-26 Deletion
%K Cisplatin-Sensitivity
%K DNA Repair
%K GTF2H5
%K Ovarian Epithelial Cancer
%K Survival
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