| Note | ST6GALNAC1 encodes a specific CMP-Neu5Ac: GalNAc a2,6-sialyltransferase termed ST6GalNAc I responsible for the biosynthesis of sialyl-Tn (STn) antigen (Ikehara et al., 1999). STn is over-expressed in a wide range of epithelial cancers and is considered as a good tumoral maker. However, its pattern of expression varies according to the cell morphology and differentiation, which depend on the cancer type. STn seems to be related to invasive behavior and metastatic potential of the cancer cells, while the involved mechanisms remain unclear. The prognostic value of STn expression has been widely studied, especially in pancreas, gastric, colorectal, and ovarian cancers and breast cancers. For all the cases, the antigen detection is correlated to a decreased survival of the patients. |
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| Entity | Pancreas Cancer |
| Note | Enhanced expression of Tn and STn antigens is usually observed in pancreas cancer. STn is expressed in intra-epithelial neoplasms of the pancreas concomitantly with aberrant expression of MUC5AC and MUC6 gastric mucins (Kim et al., 2002). High serum concentrations of STn are also observed in pancreas carcinomas (Nanashima et al., 1999). STn appears to be a more specific tumor marker in pancreas cancer than Tn antigen (Ching et al., 1994). STn has been also reported in benign pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia stage III (PanIN3), the last histologic grade relevant to benign tumor before that the tumor become invasive (Hruban et al., 2000; Kim et al., 2002). |
| Prognosis | Poor, decreased survival of the patients |
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| Entity | Gastric Cancer |
| Note | STn antigen is over-expressed in gastric carcinomas and associated with MUC1 mucin VNTR polymorphism (Santos-Silva et al., 2005). STn is also a useful predictor of poor prognosis in patients with advanced stomach cancer (Terashima et al., 1998). In particular, pre-operative serum levels of STn predict liver metastasis and poor prognosis in patients with gastric cancer (Nakagoe et al., 2001). STn is able to modulate the malignant phenotype inducing a more aggressive cell behavior, a decreased cell-cell aggregation and an increased ECM adhesion, migration and invasion (Pinho et al., 2007). However, the expression of ST6GalNAc I is low in gastric carcinoma cell lines, in accordance with the low/absent expression of the STn (Ogata et al., 2001). |
| Prognosis | Poor, decreased survival of the patients |
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| Entity | Colorectal Cancer |
| Note | STn is strongly expressed in a large number of colorectal carcinomas. However, not correlation was found between STn antigen tissue expression and ST6GalNAc I activity levels in colorectal cancer, in spite of the overexpression of the antigen in tumorous and transitional tissue (Vázquez-Martìn et al., 2004). The activity of core 1 beta3-Gal-transferase seems to be an important determinant of the STn phenotype of colon cancer cells (Brockhausen et al., 2001). Cell surface-expressed STn in colon cancer is predominantly carried on high molecular weight splice variants of CD44 (Singh et al., 2001). Pre-operative serum level of STn predicts recurrence after curative surgery in node-negative colorectal cancer patients (Takahashi et al., 1993). |
| Prognosis | Poor, decreased survival of the patients |
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| Entity | Breast Cancer |
| Note | ST6GalNAc I is responsible for the synthesis of the tumor-associated STn O-glycan in human breast cancer (Sewell et al., 2006). However, established breast cancer cell-lines express neither ST6GalNAc I nor STn (Julien et al., 2001). Stable transfection of MDA-MB-231 cells with ST6GalNAc I cDNA induces STn antigen expression together with important modifications of the O-glycosylation pattern of MUC1 in MDA-MB-231 and T-47D cells (Julien et al., 2001; Julien et al., 2005). ST6GalNAc I expression induces a decrease of adhesion and an increase of migration of MDA-MB-231. Moreover, ST6GalNAc I positive clones exhibit an increased tumor growth in SCID mice, suggesting that ST6GalNAc I expression is sufficient to enhance the tumorigenicity of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells (Julien et al., 2006). |
| Prognosis | Poor, decreased survival of the patients |
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