Prognostic significance of PLIN1 expression in human breast cancer

• Published in: Oncotarget Vol. 7; no. 34; pp. 54488 - 54502
• Main Authors: Zhou, Cefan, Wang, Ming, Zhou, Li, Zhang, Yi, Liu, Weiyong, Qin, Wenying, He, Rong, Lu, Yang, Wang, Yefu, Chen, Xing-Zhen, Tang, Jingfeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Impact Journals LLC 23.08.2016
• Subjects: Animals; Biomarkers, Tumor - analysis; Breast Neoplasms - chemistry; Breast Neoplasms - mortality; Breast Neoplasms - pathology; Cell Line, Tumor; Cell Movement; Cell Proliferation; Female; Genes, p53; Humans; Mice; Mutation; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Perilipin-1 - analysis; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Receptors, Estrogen - analysis; Research Paper; Kaplan-Meier analysis; tumor suppressor; biomarker; meta analysis; perilipin-1
• ISSN: 1949-2553; 1949-2553
• DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10239

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease associated with diverse clinical, biological and molecular features, presenting huge challenges for prognosis and treatment. Here we found that perilipin-1 (PLIN1) mRNA expression is significantly downregulated in human breast cancer. Kaplan-Meier analysis indicated that patients presenting with reduced PLIN1 expression exhibited poorer overall metastatic relapse-free survival (p = 0.03). Further Cox proportional hazard models analysis revealed that the reduced expression of PLIN1 is an independent predictor of overall survival in estrogen receptor positive (p < 0.0001, HR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.81-0.92, N = 3,600) and luminal A-subtype (p = 0.02, HR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.78-0.98, N = 1,469) breast cancer patients. We also demonstrated that the exogenous expression of PLIN1 in human breast cancer MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly inhibits cell proliferation, migration, invasion and in vivo tumorigenesis in mice. Together, these data provide novel insights into a prognostic significance of PLIN1 in human breast cancer and reveal a potentially new gene therapy target for breast cancer.