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Altered imprinting, promoter usage, and expression of insulin-like growth factor-II gene in gestational trophoblastic
Sung Jo Kim1, Sang Eun Park, Chan Lee
1Comprehensive Gynecologic Cancer Center, Pundang CHA General Hospital, Sungnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea.
Objective:
We aimed to understand the involvement of imprinted genes in the pathogenesis of gestational trophoblastic diseases (GTD) such as hydatidiform mole (H-mole) and gestational trophoblastic tumors (GTT).
Methods:
An allelic-typing assay was performed using a PCR-RFLP-based method for identification of heterozygous informative cases. The usage of insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF2) promoters was examined by RT-PCR using promoter-specific primers. The mRNA expression of IGF2 and H19 was quantified using a densitometer.
Results:
The imprinting of IGF2 and H19 was maintained in all normal placenta tissues (n = 15) but relaxed in GTD (n = 47). Loss of imprinting (LOI) of IGF2 was in the order of GTT (57%) > complete H-mole (43%) > partial H-mole (25%). Similarly, LOI of H19 was in the order of GTT (40%) > complete H-mole (18%) > partial H-mole (0%). Promoter usage pattern of IGF2 changed with gestation stage of normal placentae and GTD. In normal placentae, the usage of promoter P1 was higher than that of P4 in the first trimester but lowered in the full term. H-mole and GTT predominantly used promoter P1 with relative silencing of promoter P4. Although normal early placenta and various GTD tissues showed the similar usage of IGF2 promoter P1, GTT tissues revealed the higher expression levels of IGF2 but a down-regulation of H19 relative to the normal early placentae.
Conclusions:
These results suggest that LOI, deregulation of IGF2 promoters, and the altered expression levels of IGF2 and H19 genes might be associated with the progression of GTD.
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