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. 2016 Mar;37(3):3389-404.
doi: 10.1007/s13277-015-4167-7. Epub 2015 Oct 8.

Detection of Epstein-Barr virus genome and latent infection gene expression in normal epithelia, epithelial dysplasia, and squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity

Kentaro Kikuchi  1 , Yoshihiro Noguchi  2 , Michelle Wendoline Garcia-Niño de Rivera  3 , Miyako Hoshino  4 , Hideaki Sakashita  4 , Tsutomu Yamada  5 , Harumi Inoue  2 , Yuji Miyazaki  2 , Tadashige Nozaki  6 , Blanca Silvia González-López  3 , Fumio Ide  2 , Kaoru Kusama  2
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Detection of Epstein-Barr virus genome and latent infection gene expression in normal epithelia, epithelial dysplasia, and squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity

Kentaro Kikuchi et al. Tumour Biol. 2016 Mar.
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Abstract

A relationship between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection and cancer of lymphoid and epithelial tissues such as Burkitt's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), gastric carcinoma, and oral cancer has been reported. EBV is transmitted orally and infects B cells and epithelial cells. However, it has remained uncertain whether EBV plays a role in carcinogenesis of oral mucosal tissue. In the present study, we detected the EBV genome and latent EBV gene expression in normal mucosal epithelia, epithelial dysplasia, and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) to clarify whether EBV is involved in carcinogenesis of the oral cavity. We examined 333 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples (morphologically normal oral mucosa 30 samples, gingivitis 32, tonsillitis 17, oral epithelial dysplasia 83, OSCC 150, and NPC 21). EBV latent infection genes (EBNA-2, LMP-1) were detected not only in OSCC (50.2 %, 10.7 %) but also in severe epithelial dysplasia (66.7 %, 44.4 %), mild to moderate epithelial dysplasia (43.1 %, 18.5 %), gingivitis (78.1 %, 21.9 %), and normal mucosa (83.3 %, 23.3 %). Furthermore, the intensity of EBV latent infection gene expression (EBER, LMP-1) was significantly higher in severe epithelial dysplasia (94.4 %, 72.2 %) than in OSCC (34.7 %, 38.7 %). These results suggest that EBV latent infection genes and their increased expression in severe epithelial dysplasia might play an important role in the dysplasia-carcinoma sequence in the oral cavity.

Keywords: EBV-determinated nuclear antigen-2 (EBNA-2); EBV-encoded small RNA (EBER); Epstein-Barr virus (EBV); Latent membrane protein-1 (LMP-1); Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).

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