Women with chronic follicular gastritis positive for Helicobacter pylori express lower levels of GKN1.
Judit Alarcón-MillánSandra Ines Lorenzo-NazarioHilda Jiménez-WencesGabriela Elizabeth Campos-ViguriJulio Ortiz-OrtizMiguel Ángel Mendoza-CatalánEnoc Mariano Cortés-MalagónSalomón Reyes-NavarreteMarco Antonio Jiménez-LópezCarlos Alberto Castañón-SánchezBerenice Illades-AguiarGloria Fernández-TilapaDinorah Nashely Martinez CarrilloPublished in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2020)
In women, serum levels of CTSB, GKN2, LIPF, LIPFG, AZGP1, TOP2A and PGA4 are proposed as predictive markers of gastric cancer. It is unknown whether GKN1 expression varies with the sex of patients with chronic gastritis or gastric cancer. We studied 36 patients with histopathological diagnosis of chronic gastritis from the state of Guerrero, Mexico. PCR was performed for H. pylori detection and GKN1 expression was determined by RT-qPCR and western blot. GKN1 mRNA expression was significantly lower in patients with chronic follicular gastritis than in those with chronic chemical gastritis (p = 0.00071). The mRNA and protein level of expression of GKN1 were significantly lower in women with chronic follicular gastritis than in men with the same condition (p = 0.0279 and p = 0.0014, respectively); the lowest levels of GKN1 were detected in women with H. pylori-positive follicular gastritis (p = 0.0175 and p = 0.0111, respectively). Through a bioinformatic analysis, estrogen response elements were identified in the GKN1 promoter.