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    Role of Reprimo-like as a a tumor suppressor and candidate biomarker in gastric cancer
    (2020) Alarcón Alarcón, María Alejandra; Corvalán R., Alejandro; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Medicina
    Reprimo-like (RPRML) is an uncharacterized member of the Reprimo gene family. Herein, we evaluated the role of RPRML and whether its regulation by DNA methylation is a potential non-invasive biomarker of gastric cancer. RPRML expression was evaluated by immunohistochemistry in 90 patients with gastric cancer and associated with clinicopathologic characteristics and outcome. The role of RPRML in cancer biology was investigated in vitro, through RPRML ectopic overexpression. Functional experiments included colony formation, soft agar, MTS, and Ki67 immunofluorescence assays. DNA methylation-mediated silencing was evaluated by the 5-azacytidine assay and direct bisulfite sequencing. Non-invasive detection of circulating methylated RPRML DNA was assessed in 25 gastric cancer cases and 64 controls by the MethyLight assay. Downregulation of RPRML protein expression was associated with poor overall survival in advanced gastric cancer. RPRML overexpression significantly inhibited clonogenic capacity, anchorage-independent growth, and proliferation, in vitro. Circulating methylated RPRML DNA discriminated patients with gastric cancer from controls with an area under the curve of 0.729. The in vitro overexpression results and the poor patient survival associated with lower RPRML levels suggest that RPRML plays a tumor-suppressive role in the stomach. Circulating methylated RPRML DNA may serve as a biomarker for the non-invasive detection of gastric cancer.