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World Journal of Oncology

Original Article

Volume 10, Number 1, February 2019, pages 46-54

Association of p53 Gene Mutation With Helicobacter pylori Infection in Gastric Cancer Patients and Its Correlation With Clinicopathological and Environmental Factors

Gastric cancer (GC) is now a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity, causing 9.7% of all cancer-related mortality around the world [1]. Almost 1 million new cases of stomach cancer were estimated to have occurred in 2012 (952,000 cases, 6.8% of the total), making it the fifth most common malignancy in the world, after cancers of the lung, breast, colorectum and prostate [2]. More than 70% of cases (677,000 cases) occur in developing countries (456,000 in men, 221,000 in women), and half the world total occurs in Eastern Asia (mainly in China) [2].Though Bangladesh is lacking a population-based statistics or national cancer registry for cancers; there are very few hospital-based statistics. According to the reports from the national guideline on GC management it is ranking as the fifth most common cancer and the third most common among the males. From the unpublished data across the country from different medical institutions it has been estimated that GC possesses the second position after lung cancer in males [3].

GC may be caused by environmental or lifestyle risks, host genetic polymorphisms, as well as ageing [4]. Many laboratory studies have pointed to roles for carcinogenic substances, including amine pyrolysate products and nitrosamines. A probable risk factor for stomach cancer is salt or salty foods, which act synergistically with Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori) infection in the development of stomach cancer in experimental animals and humans [5]. Some risk factors are described in the literature: smoke is highlighted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) [6]; H. pylori also labeled as an important factor for GC [7-9]. So it is now almost a settled issue that interaction among environmental factors, host genetic polymorphism and bacterial virulence collectively influence the clinical outcome of H. pylori infections [10, 11].

Numerous cytogenetic and molecular genetic studies reached to a common consensus that oncogene over expression, suppressor, mutator, methylator pathway hypotheses, and mismatched DNA repair, but exact molecular mechanisms of GC development remain elusive [12, 13].

The TP53 is a tumor suppressor gene encodes a main regulator of cell growth and division. Studies showed that mutations in TP53 are present in a range of 40-70% of early and advanced GCs, and inactivation of TP53 resulting from loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is found in 60-70% of intestinal-type GCs. All collectively exponentiate this gene among the most frequently mutated genes in cancers [14]. Still studies are needed to settle the issue regarding the prevalence of TP53 mutations and its relationship to clinicopathological features of GC [13, 15]. Frequent p53 mutation has been shown in many human cancers; thus, this gene has been associated with carcinogenesis in humans. Gastric mucosal integrity is maintained by apoptosis balanced with cell proliferation. This balance of epithelial cell turnover is altered in the gastric mucosa of patients with GC. With regard to apoptosis, many studies have shown an increased expression and mutation of p53 in H. pylori infected gastric mucosa. Therefore, the alteration of the p53 gene is recognized to play a role in gastric carcinogenesis in subjects infected with H. pylori [16, 17].

In Bangladesh though stomach cancer is a leading cancer and also an important cause for cancer-related death, we have yet to find environmental, molecular and important risk factors. So far, we don’t have any in depth or molecular study. Like in other developing countries H. pylori infection is also prevalent in Bangladesh. In a recent study on dyspeptic patients 67% of the subjects showed evidences for H. pylori infection in gastric biopsy samples taken by endoscopy [18]. This study was aimed to identify the status of p53 mutation, to find its association with H. pylori infection and other clinicopathological and environmental factors in GC patients.

This was a cross-sectional study carried out from January 2015 to December 2016 in the Department of Surgical Oncology, National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

After endoscopic diagnosis of the stomach adenocarcinoma, the patients who were preliminarily selected for surgical candidates were admitted for surgical intervention. Diagnostic workup was completed by routine hematological tests, investigations for general anesthesia, ultrasonography abdomen and in selected cases computed tomography (CT) scan of abdomen. Patient was randomly assigned as every alternate patient was taken into the study when they were finally selected for surgery. Surgeons were unaware of the subjects. Informed consent for surgery and study were taken from each patient. Approval was taken from the Institutions’ Ethical Committee. For H. pylori antibody laboratory facilities were taken from the Department of Biochemistry Bangabandhu Sk Mujib Medical University, Dhaka.

Patients with GCs other than adenocarcinoma, preoperative chemotherapy, radiotherapy, other organ malignancy and those who were unwilling to take part in the study were exclude from the study.

Normal and tumor tissues were extracted from the specimen immediately after resection. The specimen surface was washed with normal saline prior to fragment extraction to avoid DNA contamination. Areas of tissue extraction from the specimen were demarcated for routine pathologic examination. Only tissue fragments containing suspected tumor tissue were included for p53 analysis. Normal areas were used as controls.

Tissues were stored at -80 °C before DNA purification and extraction. After that tissue was sent to the Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Department of Centre for Advance Research in Science (CARS), University of Dhaka, under a memorandum of understanding with Surgical Oncology Department for PCR, sequencing and analysis.

In the laboratory tissues were incubated overnight at 55 °C in a buffer containing 100 mM TRIS-HCl (pH 8.5), 5 mM EDTA, 200 µg of proteinase K/mL, and 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulfate. The samples were cooled to room temperature, and DNA was precipitated with isopropanol and dissolved in 500 mL of buffer containing 10 mM TRIS (pH 8.2) and 1 mM EDTA.

The overlapping primer sequences were used for amplification of p53 gene.

Primers were designed to amplify the coding region of p53. After PCR, 2% gel electrophoresis was done along with 1 kb DNA ladder to check the amplification of distinct PCR products. DNA was amplified in PCR machine in annealing temperature.

Purified PCR fragments were sequenced directly using a DNA sequencing kit according to Applied Biosystems from USA with Big Dye Terminators on an ABI3700 automated DNA sequencer for p53 after proper primer designing exons 5 and 6 were used. Primer sequence was: p53-1 forward: 5’-ACAAGCAGTCACAGCACATGAC-3’ and p53-1 reverse: 5’ -TTCAGTAGAGAACGGGGTTTCACC-3’

The purified sequencing PCR products were analyzed by electrophoresis in the ABI-Prism 3130 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems, USA). The sequence patterns were observed and edited using Auto Assembler V 3.0 and BioEdit Sequence Alignment Editor V 7.0.9.0. p53 polymorphisms were compared with the standard genome database of world population.

After finding the genetic changes it was matched with H. pylori status, clinicopathological profile like age, sex, tumor characters, types and location and grading of the tumor and some environmental factors like smoking, oral intake of extra salt.

The clinical data were obtained from history, clinical examination and each medical record of the patients. The status of H. pylori infection was determined by examining the preoperative sera.

Result of the study was calculated and analyzed by standard statistical method and was presented in forms of tables and figures. Continuous data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD). For analysis of data Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 22.0, Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.) software was used. To see the association between categorical variables Chi-squared test (or Fisher’s exact test when applicable) was performed. Binomial logistic regression was used to explain the relationship between p53 mutation and H. pylori infection, clinical and environmental factors in GC patients. A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant in all analyses.

Finally tissue samples from 71 patients could be examined for genetic tests. Selection of the patients in detail was shown in Figure 1.The mean age of the patients was 52.96 years old with SD of 13.26, ranging from 26 to 87 years; younger group (n = 18) was categorized as 40 years or below; male: female ratio was 48:23. As generally in the public hospital people from a lower socioeconomic condition take their services, we can assume that majority are from poorer section of the society. Tumor staging T1-T3, and grading G1, G2, and G3 was shown in Table 1. Morphology was categorized as proliferative and ulceroproliferative ones, with the number is 62 (87.3%). H. pylori antibody analysis showed that among the 51 positive cases, 41 (80%) had mutated p53 gene. The rest 11 cases with mutation were found among the 20 H. pylori non-infected cases. Chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test showed that H. pylori infection has got strong association with the mutation (P = 0.033). The tumor was described as location, morphology, and size. It was seen that to find correlation with location of the tumor (cardia, midbody and antral), majority (> 75%) of the lesion found in antral part (found no significant correlation with mutation), morphology of the tumor which was categorized as ulcerative, proliferative and ulceroproliferative didn’t have any significant correlation with the mutation (P = 0.939), but the size of the tumor and lymph node involvement (N1 - N3) have significant correlation with the mutation (P = 0.05). Other factors like gender, smoking carried no impact on the mutation status. But extra salt intake in the regular diet had strong correlation with the mutation. Considering the age group, 18 patients were at or below 40 years of age, 17 of them had p53 mutation (P = 0.015), which reflects a very strong association with age. The logistic regression was performed to ascertain the effects of age, gender, tumor status (T), grading, node status, smoking, and extra salt intake. The model explained 66.0% (Nagelkerke R²) of the variance gene mutation of GC and correctly classified 87.0% of cases.

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Figure 1. Showing the layout of patients.

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Table 1. Factors Related to p53 Mutation

The Wald test (“Wald” column) is used to determine statistical significance for each of the independent variables. The statistical significance of the test is found in the “Sig” column. From these results we can see that morphology (2) (P = 0.037), Stage T (1) (P = 0.004), H. pylori (1) (P = 0.012), grading (P = 0.031), grading (2) (P = 0.008) and age group (P = 0.006) added significantly to the model/prediction, but other independent variables did not add significantly to the model.

H. pylori-infected cases, younger patients, T4 diseases, body tumors had more chances of association with p53 mutation, which was shown in Tables 2-5.

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Table 2. Logistic Regression Analysis of H. pylori and p53 Mutation (Dependent Variable: p53, Sample Size = 71)

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Table 3. Variables in the Equation

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Table 4. Contribution of Each Independent Variable to the Model and Its Statistical Significance

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Table 5. Odd Ratio of p53 Mutation in H. pylori-Infected Patients

In this study tissue sample from gastrectomy specimen was taken for p53 gene mutation, blood sample was taken for investigation about H. pylori status. Samples were sent to two different laboratories. Finally results of the two tests were matched to find the linkages between p53 gene mutation with H. pylori positivity. We also investigated the correlation of p53 mutation with age, sex, tumor profile and daily habits like smoking and extra salt intake in the daily diets.

On gene analysis it was seen that among the H. pylori infected cases over 80% have alteration of p53 in the tested gene in the current series, despite of using only exons 5 and 6. Chi-square and regression analysis shows that they have strong and significant association. In Bangladesh there was no previous study in this field. Around the globe there are different studies covering this area. It has been suggested that H. pylori can initiate GC through p53 tumor suppressor mutation [19]. The p53 abnormalities have been assessed in several studies of GC associated with H. pylori infection [20, 21], but controversy still remains. Still it has been suggested that H. pylori initiates GC through p53 tumor suppressor mutation [19]. Other study concludes that H. pylori infection affects p53 expression in tumor tissue of GC sections. The average p53 expression was significantly higher in tumor than in normal tissues. Overall, the detection of p53 in tumor tissue of resected GC sections provided additional supportive evidence for the effect of H. pylori on its expression [22, 23] even in the form of chronic gastritis which was labeled as preneoplastic to neoplastic changes [22, 24].

On analysis of the altered p53 gene in this study, it was found that it had a strong correlation with age of the patients. The age group of this study was categorized as 40 years (younger) or below and 41 years or above; nearly all of the younger patients had gene mutation. It was a common fact that ageing and carcinogenesis runs together. Among many cancers it is observed that gastric and colorectal ones also occur more often in the elderly. Studies show that GC rarely occurs before the age of 40 years, with aging its incidence increases, and getting the peak in the seventh decade [25, 26]. Reasons may be that long-term exposure of cancer-causing agents has been offered for the age-dependent rise in malignancies [27]. Carcinogenesis, which is a multistep process, results from the accumulation of mutations during progression from normal epithelium to carcinoma [28]. Their view expressed that in humans, the incidence of mutations of several tumor suppressor genes, specifically APC, DCC, and p53 in the gastric mucosa, is higher in older subjects [25]. But other study found p53 mutation in younger subjects of proximal stomach cancers [29]. In this study it is seen that younger patients are more prone to have gene mutation. Regarding to gender distribution, males are prone to develop GC, which matches with this study [25, 26]; but it is not found to have significant mutation in the current study.

In this study, we tried to find correlation of p53 mutation with the different domains of the tumor factor like morphology, location, extension and grading. Though most of the tumors are located within mid body and antrum it does not have any significant correlation. On the other hand extension of the tumor, lymph node involvement had significant correlation with the genetic mutation. Though there is limited study on the clinical relevance with gene alteration, it has been shown in different previous studies that it is associated with advanced stage, higher grade [30, 31], and some study had found negative association with lymph node status, grading and metastasis [29].

The first is extra salt intake. It has been seen that in some areas of Bangladesh people are prone to have more GC in their vicinity. On enquiry and also in the series some of the patients have routine habit to consume extra salt in their daily meals; on analysis it was found that it has strong correlation with p53 mutation. A prospective study from a Japanese population suggests that high dietary salt intake (> 10 g per day) is a significant risk factor for GC, and this association was found to be stronger in the presence of H. pylori infection with atrophic gastritis [32, 33].

Smoking is also a common habit among the male in this part of the world. Since GC is a male dominant disease it is likely that smoking may be a predisposing risk factor of the disease. Though there were a good number of smoker patients (63.4%), 75% had p53 mutation in our series; it doesn’t have significant correlation on regression analysis and Chi-square test. Although the role of smoking in causing several other cancers has long been established, it was not until 2002 that the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that there was “sufficient” evidence of causality between smoking and GC [34]. In a large population-based study in Europe (EPIC), 17.6% of GC cases were related to smoking [35]. Though the exact mechanisms are unclear, studies predicted that oxygen radicals and increased apoptosis associated with smoking induces precancerous changes in the gastric epithelium, further promoting the progression of carcinogenesis [36]. There is limited study on association of p53 mutation with smoking. But there are few studies on p53 and cancer. In a larger Saudi study they found no association of p53 mutation among the smokers [37]. A statistically significant association was found between p53 mutations and exposure to tobacco smoke (P = 0.001), which was the only variable significantly associated with p53 mutations in a multivariate model [38].

In Bangladesh, GC incidence is in rising trend. Regarding H. pylori infection, different studies directed that in the last 20 years infection is in down trend [39]. In a case control study [40] to see relationship of GC with H. pylori infection, it is well established that there is also a close association of H. pylori infection with GC. We have yet to find any molecular study. Within this limited facility we could finally explore the status of p53 alteration which is remarkably present in our patients and have strong association with H. pylori infection.

As Bangladesh still being a member of the low economic country in the globe, it has to bear big burden and carry devastating tales of the GC patients. The disease has a higher mortality and poor patients have to bear intolerable sufferings in the terminal stages when the standard therapeutic measures cannot be offered. On the other hand it is established that the disease is an inflammation-associated cancer, and in addition to the inflammation, the H. pylori organism itself can directly cause genetic instability, which is also influenced by environmental factors and some host factors. The current study found genetic alteration in H. pylori-infected patients which is synergistically affected by clinical and environmental factors. Cure of H. pylori prior to development of different steps of carcinogenesis will essentially prevent the development of GC. It seems to be the fact that the status of p53 in the tumor cannot inform about the stage of the tumor but assessing p53 status may be beneficial in early detection and monitoring of tumor relapse, by detecting p53 antibodies and mutant p53 DNA. Furthermore, analysis of p53 status can serve as a tool in the prediction of effective therapeutic regimens, whereas p53 itself particularly mutant p53, may represent targets for cancer therapy [41]. Additional molecular studies in a larger scale to delineate exact molecular mechanisms linking the relationship with environmental, demographic and host factors are needed. A large scale nation-wide anti-H. pylori measures in the community particularly in the low income section of people may bring a drastic declining change for the future GC incidences.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Mr. Shamsul Alam Akhond, the senior counsellor of Bangladesh Institute of Management, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, who has kindly facilitated the statistical analysis.

Funding Disclosure

This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh which helped to carry out the laboratory expenses.

Author Contributions

M Mizanur Rahman designed and initiated the study, made a team, collected the literature, and regularly monitored during patient recruitment, sample collection, managed the fund, regularly monitored the works and played role for data compilation and analysis of the result and final drafting of the manuscript. M. Abu Kawser Sarker, Md Monoar Hossain, Md Monzurul Islam and Shajadul Alam were responsible for patient selection, scrutiny, sample collection from the operation theatre and all steps up to the laboratories, data collection and compilation. Laila shirin was assigned for data analysis and drafting. Rokeya Sultana and Gazi Nurunnahar were responsible for dealing with the work of genetic part, primer designing, PCR amplification, sequencing and final analysis. It is stated that all authors have read and approved the manuscript.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests. To

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