Loss of heterozygosity of the human cytosolic glutathione peroxidase I gene in lung cancer

Jeffrey A. Moscow, Laura Schmidt, David T. Ingram, James Gnarra, Bruce Johnson, Kenneth H. Cowan

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Abstract

The consistent deletion of 3p21 in lung cancer has led to intensive efforts to identify a lung tumor suppressor gene at this locus. We recently mapped the gene for the seleniumdependent drug-detoxifying enzyme glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPX1) to this location by in situ hybridization. We developed a polymerase chain reaction-based assay which demonstrated the existence of three GPX1 alleles characterized by the number of alanines in a polyalanine coding sequence in exon 1. These three alleles produced a heterozygote frequency of 70% in two separate populations: normal tissue DNA taken from Centre d'Etude du Polmorphisme Humain (CEPH) parents and normal tissue taken from cancer patients. In contrast, 10 heterozygote tumors were detected out of 64 lung cancer specimens. Linkage analysis of GPX1 to Genethon 3p markers in CEPH pedigrees demonstrated that GPX1 was located between the two microsatellite markers believed to flank the lung cancer deletion site. Nucleotide sequence analysis of GPX1 alleles did not reveal any mutations of this gene in lung tumors. However, sequence analysis did reveal that the three GPX1 alleles were characterized by three nucleotide substitutions in addition to the polyalanine polymorphism, including a substitution at codon 198 which results in either a proline or leucine at that position. Therefore, the different GPX1 alleles encode structurally different hGPx1 subunits. In addition, analysis of allele frequency suggests that the GPX1*ALA7 allele may occur less frequently in tumors with 3p21 deletions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2769-2773
Number of pages5
JournalCarcinogenesis
Volume15
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1994
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cancer Research

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