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    Analysis of acute-phase proteins, AHSG, C3, CLI, HP and SAA, reveals distinctive expression patterns associated with breast, colorectal and lung cancer


    Dowling, Paul and Clarke, Colin and Hennessy, Kim and Torralbo-Lopez, Beatriz and Ballot, Jo and Crown, John and Kiernan, Ingrid and O'Byrne, Kenneth J. and Kennedy, M. John and Lynch, Vincent and Clynes, Martin (2012) Analysis of acute-phase proteins, AHSG, C3, CLI, HP and SAA, reveals distinctive expression patterns associated with breast, colorectal and lung cancer. International Journal of Cancer, 131 (4). pp. 911-923. ISSN 0020-7136

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    Abstract

    Early detection, clinical management and disease recurrence monitoring are critical areas in cancer treatment in which specific biomarker panels are likely to be very important in each of these key areas. We have previously demonstrated that levels of alpha-2-heremans-schmid-glycoprotein (AHSG), complement component C3 (C3), clusterin (CLI), haptoglobin (HP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) are significantly altered in serum from patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. Here, we report the abundance levels for these proteins in serum samples from patients with advanced breast cancer, colorectal cancer (CRC) and lung cancer compared to healthy controls (age and gender matched) using commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits. Logistic regression (LR) models were fitted to the resulting data, and the classification ability of the proteins was evaluated using receiver-operating characteristic curve and leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV). The most accurate individual candidate biomarkers were C3 for breast cancer [area under the curve (AUC) 5 0.89, LOOCV 5 73%], CLI for CRC (AUC 5 0.98, LOOCV 5 90%), HP for small cell lung carcinoma (AUC 5 0.97, LOOCV 5 88%), C3 for lung adenocarcinoma (AUC 5 0.94, LOOCV 5 89%) and HP for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung (AUC 5 0.94, LOOCV 5 87%). The best dual combination of biomarkers using LR analysis were found to be AHSG 1 C3 (AUC 5 0.91, LOOCV 5 83%) for breast cancer, CLI 1 HP (AUC 5 0.98, LOOCV 5 92%) for CRC, C3 1 SAA (AUC 5 0.97, LOOCV 5 91%) for small cell lung carcinoma and HP 1 SAA for both adenocarcinoma (AUC 5 0.98, LOOCV 5 96%) and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung (AUC 5 0.98, LOOCV 5 84%). The high AUC values reported here indicated that these candidate biomarkers have the potential to discriminate accurately between control and cancer groups both individually and in combination with other proteins.

    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: The definitive published version of this article is available at DOI: 10.1002/ijc.26462
    Keywords: acute-phase proteins; biomarkers; cancer; proteomics;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Biology
    Item ID: 6868
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.26462
    Depositing User: Paul Dowling
    Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2016 10:35
    Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Cancer
    Publisher: Wiley
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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