Members of the glutathione and ABC-transporter families are associated with clinical outcome in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Journal Article


Authors: Andreadis, C.; Gimotty, P. A.; Wahl, P.; Hammond, R.; Houldsworth, J.; Schuster, S. J.; Rebbeck, T. R.
Article Title: Members of the glutathione and ABC-transporter families are associated with clinical outcome in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Abstract: Standard chemotherapy fails in 40% to 50% of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Some of these failures can be salvaged with high-dose regimens, suggesting a role for drug resistance in this disease. We examined the expression of genes in the glutathione (GSH) and ATP-dependent transporter (ABC) families in 2 independent tissue-based expression microarray datasets obtained prior to therapy from patients with DLBCL. Among genes in the GSH family, glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPX1) had the most significant adverse effect on disease-specific overall survival (dOS) in the primary dataset (n = 130) (HR: 1.68; 95% CI: 1.26-2.22; P < .001). This effect remained statistically significant after controlling for biologic signature, LLMPP cellof-origin signature, and IPI score, and was confirmed in the validation dataset (n = 39) (HR: 1.7; 95% CI: 1.05-2.8; P = .033). Recursive partitioning identified a group of patients with low-level expression of GPX1 and multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1; ABCB1) without early treatment failures and with superior dOS (P < .001). Overall, our findings suggest an important association of oxidative-stress defense and drug elimination with treatment failure in DLBCL and identify GPX1 and ABCB1 as potentially powerful biomarkers of early failure and disease-specific survival. © 2007 by The American Society of Hematology.
Keywords: cancer survival; treatment outcome; disease-free survival; survival rate; treatment failure; major clinical study; prednisone; doxorubicin; validation process; adjuvant therapy; cancer radiotherapy; gene expression; gene expression profiling; tumor markers, biological; cyclophosphamide; vincristine; drug resistance, neoplasm; b cell lymphoma; lymphoma, b-cell; statistical significance; microarray analysis; oligonucleotide array sequence analysis; abc transporter; predictive value of tests; glutathione; p-glycoprotein; gene expression regulation, leukemic; databases, genetic; multidrug resistance protein 1; membrane transport proteins; organic anion transporters; glutathione peroxidase 1; glutathione peroxidase; lymphoma, large-cell, diffuse
Journal Title: Blood
Volume: 109
Issue: 8
ISSN: 0006-4971
Publisher: American Society of Hematology  
Date Published: 2007-04-15
Start Page: 3409
End Page: 3416
Language: English
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-09-047621
PUBMED: 17179223
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC1852238
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