Elevated levels of mortalin expression in human brain tumors

Experimental Cell Research
S TakanoY Mitsui

Abstract

We have performed immunohistochemical studies of mortalin in normal and tumor human brain sections. In normal brain sections, the expression was seen mainly as being confined to neurons. Normal astrocytes showed undetectable expression of this unique member of the heat shock 70 protein family. Three grades of astrocyte tumors (low-grade astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, and glioblastoma), however, showed an increasing number of mortalin-positive cells. Other types of brain tumors, such as meningiomas, neurinomas, pituitary adenomas, and metastases, also showed elevated levels of mortalin expression compared to those in the normal brain. Mortalin has earlier been reported to have differential intracellular distribution in normal and transformed cells in vitro. Therefore, we substantiated the present study with immunofluorescence localization of the protein in normal and glioblastoma cells. The observations indicated that the tumors might be expressing a nonpancytosolic mortalin. An increase in number of mortalin-positive cells with malignant progression of brain tumors and its correlation with Ki-67 (a cell proliferation marker)-positive cells further suggested an involvement of nonpancytosolic mortalin(s) in malignant transf...Continue Reading

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