MET is overexpressed in microsatellite instability-high gastric carcinoma

MET is a tyrosine kinase receptor for the hepatocyte growth factor, and its overexpression is a poor prognostic factor in gastric carcinomas. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is an important biomarker of immunotherapy and is frequently positive in microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) gastric car...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pathology, research and practice research and practice, 2019-03, Vol.215 (3), p.433-438
Hauptverfasser: Sim, Jongmin, Heo, You Jeong, Bae, Hyunsik, Shin, Hyeong Chan, Kim, Binnari, Cho, Junhun, Kim, Seung Tae, Lee, Jeeyun, Kang, Won Ki, Kim, Kyoung-Mee
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Zusammenfassung:MET is a tyrosine kinase receptor for the hepatocyte growth factor, and its overexpression is a poor prognostic factor in gastric carcinomas. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is an important biomarker of immunotherapy and is frequently positive in microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) gastric carcinomas. In lung cancers, MET activation up-regulates PD-L1 expression. In this study, we investigated expression of MET and PD-L1 in MSI-H gastric carcinoma and the effects on prognosis. MET and PD-L1 (SP142) immunohistochemistry was performed in 73 gastric carcinomas with MSI-H. In cases with MET overexpression, we performed fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). PD-L1 expression was calculated from both tumor cells (2+ and 3+ in > 10% of tumor cells was defined as PD-L1TC+) and immune cells (positive in >5% immune cells was PD-L1IC+), and also used a combined positive score (CPS; number of PD-L1 staining cells relative to all viable tumor cells; > 1 was PD-L1+). In 73 MSI-H gastric carcinomas, MET overexpression was observed in 11 cases (15.1%). In all 11 cases with MET overexpression,MET amplification was not found. MET overexpression was not related to any of clinico-pathological variables and PD-L1 expression. However, the PD-L1 CPS tended to be higher in tumors that were MET positive. Although MET overexpression alone was not a prognostic indicator, combined MET overexpression/PD-L1 predictive models showed that patients with MET+/PD-L1+ showed the best prognosis for overall survival as compared to other groups. MET overexpression was observed in 15% of MSI-H gastric carcinomas and was associated with high level expression of PD-L1.
ISSN:0344-0338
1618-0631
DOI:10.1016/j.prp.2018.11.010