Genetic signatures of ERCC1 and ERCC2 expression, along with SNPs variants, unveil favorable prognosis in SCLC patients undergoing platinum-based chemotherapy.
Enrico Caliman, Sara Fancelli, Federico Scolari, Adriano Pasqui, Clara Manneschi, Daniele Lavacchi, Francesca Mazzoni, Francesca Gensini, Valeria Pasini, Camilla Eva Comin, Luca Voltolini, Serena Pillozzi, Lorenzo Antonuzzo
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Abstract
Background: Platinum chemotherapy (CT) remains the backbone of systemic therapy for patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway plays a central role in the repair of the DNA damage exerted by platinum agents. Alteration in this repair mechanism may affect patients' survival.
Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of data from 38 patients with extensive disease (ED)-SCLC who underwent platinum-CT at the Clinical Oncology Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence (Italy), from 2015 to 2020. mRNA expression analysis and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) characterization of three NER pathway genes-namely ERCC1, ERCC2, and ERCC5-were performed on patient tumor samples.
Results: Overall, elevated expression of ERCC genes was observed in SCLC patients compared to healthy controls. Patients with low ERCC1 and ERCC5 expression levels exhibited a better median progression-free survival (mPFS = 7.1 vs. 4.9 months, p = 0.39 for ERCC1 and mPFS = 6.9 vs. 4.8 months, p = 0.093 for ERCC5) and overall survival (mOS = 8.7 vs. 6.0 months, p = 0.4 for ERCC1 and mOS = 7.2 vs. 6.2 months, p = 0.13 for ERCC5). Genotyping analysis of five SNPs of ERCC genes showed a longer survival in patients harboring the wild-type genotype or the heterozygous variant of the ERCC1 rs11615 SNP (p = 0.24 for PFS and p = 0.14 for OS) and of the rs13181 and rs1799793 ERCC2 SNPs (p = 0.43 and p = 0.26 for PFS and p = 0.21 and p = 0.16 for OS, respectively) compared to patients with homozygous mutant genotypes.
Conclusions: The comprehensive analysis of ERCC gene expression and SNP variants appears to identify patients who derive greater survival benefits from platinum-CT.
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