Downregulation of ORP3 Correlates with Reduced Survival of Colon Cancer Patients with Advanced Nodal Metastasis and of Female Patients with Grade 3 Colon Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Genome instability is an essential hallmark in tumor development, including colorectal cancer. We have recently identified the oxysterol binding protein-related protein 3 (ORP3), also known as oxysterol binding protein-like 3 (OSBPL3), as a novel ploidy-control gene, whose knock-out leads to aneuploidy induction and promotes tumor formation, indicating that ORP3 is a bona fide tumor suppressor protein. Here we analyzed expression of ORP3 in a cohort (n = 206) of colon cancer patients in relation to patient survival. We show that low ORP3 mRNA levels correlate with reduced survival of patients with advanced nodal metastasis (N2). While patient survival does not associate with grading when the whole cohort is evaluated, importantly, low ORP3 mRNA levels associate with worse survival of femal

SUBMITTER: Xu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7460621 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature