TP53 Mutation in Urinary Bladder Cancer-Bn
TP53 Mutation in Urinary Bladder Cancer-Bn
TP53 Mutation in Urinary Bladder Cancer-Bn
Tumor protein p53 (TP53) is a tumor suppressor gene and mutations in this gene are
found frequently in several human cancer including urinary bladder cancer. Strong
invasiveness and recurrence occur in about 25% of bladder cancer patients. Muscle-invasive
bladder cancer (MIBC) have worse prognosis when detected during diagnosis or treatment.
resection of the bladder) whereas MIBC requires both surgery and chemotherapy for
treatment. TP53 mutations affect several target gene expression resulting transcriptional
activation or change in metabolism and cell cycle, senescence, apoptosis and complicated
cellular progression (Vousden & Prives, 2009). Mutations in TP53 and its related pathways
can act as driver mutations for bladder cancer. Mutant TP53 activate several mechanisms
relevant to cancer initiation, progression and poor outcome disease (Kim, Zhang & Lozano,
2015; Smith et al., 2002). Recently, Wu G et al., 2019 studied contribution of the TP53
NMIBC. They have observed mutations in 49.5% patients in MIBC as compare to 21% of
(15.6%), deletion (2.2%), multiple(0.7%) and inframe (0.2%) mutations (Figure below). Even
though mutations are detected spanning all exons, highest frequency was observed in exon 7,
R248Q/W/G in MIBC and in exon 8, E285K/G in NMIBC. These mutations can be useful as
marker of muscle invasiveness. Other mutational analysis studies have shown point mutations
spanning exons 4-8 which includes R72P (58%), P67T (9%), A159P (0.7%), D185N (28%),
G199 V (0.7%), G199E (0.7%), D208N (0.7%), R283P (1.4%). These mutations were found
DOI:10.1016/j.mgene.2017.01.002
TheTP53 mutation R72P is also known as functional single-nucleotide polymorphism
(SNP, rs1042522) at codon 72. TP53 codon 72 polymorphism has been linked to an
increased risk of breast cancer, cervical cancer, oesophageal cancer, gastric cancer, lung
cancer, and skin cancer. This polymorphism may affects the phenotypes or clinical
outcomes of bladder cancer but the underlying mechanism remains unknown. However,
three genotypes, Arg/Arg,Arg/Pro, and Pro/Pro, were found in 37% (38/103), 42%
(43/103), and 21% (22/103) of the patients, respectively in bladder cancer. Genetic
mutations in RAS was higher in patients without the Arg allele (41% vs 20%, p = 0.04)
PMID: 31369573
Methodology
the genomic sequence NC_000017.11 (TP53 5'UTR to 3'UTR) and consists of 11 exons.
TP53 ORF corresponds exon 2 (aa1-25), 3 (aa26-32), 4 (aa 33-125), 5 (aa126-186), 6 (aa187-
For genomic DNA, biopsy tissue or from whole blood will be obtained from both
MIBC or NIMBC patients. Genomic DNA will be isolated in commercial kits such as
QIAamp whole blood/tissue nucleic acid kit using automated nucleic acid extraction system
Amplification of TP53 exon and detection of tumor associated mutations and its
frequency
Detection of tumor associated somatic mutation will be carried out by direct
sequencing or by droplet digital PCR or by pyrosequencing using IARC TP53 specific
primer. These regions flanking exon 4, 7 and 8 will be amplified using exon specific PCR
primers as mentioned below: