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[Aspirin suppresses microsatellite instability].

S Wallinger1, W Dietmaier, K Beyser

  • 1Institut für Pathologie, Universität Regensburg.

Verhandlungen Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fur Pathologie
|March 14, 2000
PubMed
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduce microsatellite instability in mismatch repair-deficient cells. This suggests NSAIDs like aspirin and sulindac may offer a prophylactic therapy for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer.

Area of Science:

  • Oncology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

Context:

  • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) show promise in cancer prevention, including regression of adenomas in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) patients.
  • The underlying mechanisms of NSAID-mediated cancer prevention, particularly their effect on DNA repair pathways, require further elucidation.

Purpose:

  • To investigate the impact of NSAIDs (Aspirin and Sulindac) on microsatellite instability (MSI) in colorectal cancer cell lines with varying mismatch repair (MMR) gene deficiencies.
  • To explore the relationship between NSAID treatment, cell cycle, apoptosis, and MSI.
  • To develop a rapid in vitro assay for MSI analysis.

Summary:

  • Six colorectal cancer cell lines, mostly deficient in MMR genes (hMSH2, hMLH1, hMSH6), were treated with Aspirin or Sulindac. A microcloning assay combining laser microdissection and PCR was used to analyze MSI.

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  • Long-term NSAID treatment significantly reduced MSI frequency in MMR-deficient cells, an effect that was reversible, time-dependent, and concentration-dependent.
  • The MSI phenotype remained unchanged in a human PMS2-deficient cell line (HEC-1-A), and cell sorting indicated non-apoptotic cells were stable while apoptotic cells were unstable.

    • Impact:

    • These findings suggest that NSAIDs like aspirin and sulindac can induce genetic selection for microsatellite stability in a subset of MMR-deficient cells.
    • This selective pressure may position NSAIDs as a potential prophylactic therapy for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) and related carcinomas.