Overexpression of annexin A4 indicates poor prognosis and promotes tumor metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma

Tumour Biology : the Journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine
Wenwei ChenJingfeng Liu

Abstract

The prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after surgical resection remains unsatisfactory for the majority of HCC patients who developed early recurrence or metastasis. There is still a lack of reliable biomarkers that can be used to predict the possibility of recurrence/metastasis in HCC patients after operation. In the current study, annexin A4, a calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding protein, has been found to be significantly elevated in HCC patients with early recurrence/metastasis, and had a strong correlation with portal vein tumor thrombosis (p = 0.03) and advanced BCLC stage (p = 0.002). Cox proportional hazards regression analysis revealed that annexin A4 was an independent prognostic predictor for both early recurrence/metastasis (HR = 1.519, p = 0.032) and overall survival (HR = 1.827, p = 0.009) after surgical resection. Meanwhile, Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that Patients with high-expression levels of annexin A4 had higher recurrence rate and shorter overall survival than those with low expression (log-rank test, p < 0.001). Furthermore, in vitro studies have demonstrated that overexpression of annexin A4 facilitated HCC cell migration and invasion via regulating epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). I...Continue Reading

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