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05 October 2021: Clinical Research  

miRNA Profiling of Hungarian Regressive Wilms’ Tumor Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Samples by Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR)

Gergely Buglyó1ABCDEF*, Zsófia Magyar2ABCD, Éva Romicsné Görbe ORCID logo2AB, Rita Bánusz3AB, Monika Csóka ORCID logo3B, Tamás Micsik4BDE, Márta Mezei1BC, Jaxi Ayman Shawky Yani1BC, Péter Varga2A, Zoltán Sápi4A, Bálint Nagy1ACD

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.932731

Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e932731

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Wilms’ tumor is a common renal malignancy of early childhood with a generally favorable prognosis depending upon histological subtype. It is becoming increasingly clear that differences in miRNA (microRNA) expression signature represent important clues helping us predict a tumor’s response to chemotherapy. In our study, we aimed to reveal miRNAs deregulated in regressive Wilms’ tumors from FFPE (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded) samples, also showing whether such samples are reliable miRNA sources in Wilms’ tumor.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Samples from 8 Hungarian patients (3 males, 5 females, aged 1 to 7 years) were analyzed by qRT-PCR (quantitative real-time PCR). A PCR array was used in a pilot experiment, and selected miRNAs (miR-128-3p, miR-184, miR-194-5p, miR-203a) were studied in the rest of the samples using individual primers.

RESULTS: miR-194-5p was underexpressed in all tumor samples. miR-184 and miR-203a were underexpressed in 7 cases, the exception being a case with a high ratio of necrotic blastemal tissue. Results obtained with miR-128-3p are difficult to interpret due to varying directions of expression changes.

CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that a downregulation of miR-184, miR-194-5p, and miR-203a expression is observed in both regressive and blastemal tumors, but larger-scale studies are needed to confirm whether the degree of their underexpression correlates with the number of blastemal elements in a sample. In most of our FFPE samples aged up to 9 years, RNA extraction provided miRNA with quantity and quality sufficient for qRT-PCR-based analysis, emphasizing the relevance of pathological archives as miRNA sources in future studies.

Keywords: MIRN203 microRNA, Human, MIRN194 microRNA, Human, MIRN184 microRNA, Human, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Wilms Tumor, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Hungary, Infant, Kidney Neoplasms, Paraffin Embedding

Background

Wilms’ tumor (nephroblastoma) is known to account for the vast majority (>90%) of childhood kidney malignancies, with an incidence ranging from 4.9 to 16.4 per 1 million children [1]. Management protocol recommended by SIOP (International Society of Paediatric Oncology) consists of 4–6 weeks of preoperative chemotherapy followed by surgical treatment. Postoperative treatment depends on the histology found in the surgical sample [2]. If more than two-thirds of the tumor mass shows chemotherapy-induced changes, the tumor is classified as regressive regardless of its histology. Non-regressive cases are further classified on the basis of the predominant cell type: blastemal, stromal, or epithelial. Focal or diffuse anaplastic changes may also occur and are associated with poor prognosis [3].

In non-anaplastic tumors, the presence of surviving blastemal tissue after preoperative chemotherapy is an important prognostic factor. According to the SIOP classification, regressive and blastemal are the 2 most common types of Wilms’ tumor, with the former showing the best long-term survival and the latter the poorest [4].

miRNAs (microRNAs) are a class of short, noncoding endogenous RNA molecules known to affect gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level [5]. Their deregulation has been implicated by many authors in Wilms’ tumor, particularly the loss of let-7a and miR-200 family miRNAs due to mutations in miRNA processing genes [6,7] or the activity of oncogenes such as MYCN and LIN-28B [8]. The exact role of miRNAs in the pathogenesis of Wilms’ tumor is still poorly understood. It is thought that a variety of germ-line and somatic mutations trigger a more or less common downstream deregulation pattern in renal progenitor cells involving regulatory RNAs such as miRNA [6], ultimately resulting in a differentiation arrest: a failure of mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition [9].

Differences between miRNA signatures of blastemal and regressive Wilms’ tumors have been reported in the literature and are thought to be related to chemoresponsiveness [10]. In the present study, our aim was to find relevant, and possibly novel, miRNA deregulations from FFPE (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded) samples of a regressive Wilms’ tumor patient by PCR array, and study a narrower, hand-picked subset of miRNAs in the rest of our samples using individual primers, thereby contributing to our understanding of molecular factors behind the pathogenesis and chemoresponsiveness, and providing evidence for or against the feasibility of using FFPE samples for miRNA extraction.

Material and Methods

PATIENTS:

Our study population consisted of 10 white Hungarian patients diagnosed with unilateral regressive Wilms’ tumor at an age of 1 to 7 years, with a median age of 3 years (Table 1). Chemo- and surgical therapy were administered according to the SIOP WT 2001 protocol. MRI was used to assess tumor regression after completing preoperative chemotherapy, and the diagnosis of regressive Wilms’ tumor (and inclusion in the present study) was decided at this point. Patients 2 and 4 had triphasic tumors, meaning that tumor tissue contained viable blastemal, stromal, and epithelial cells after preoperative chemotherapy. Patient 8 was an unusual histological case in which blastemal Wilms’ tumor elements were necrotic, and viable parts of the neoplasm were mostly stromal. Patient 9 seemed to have multiple metastatic lesions in the lungs at the time of diagnosis, which were removed, but viable tumor cells were not observed in surgical samples. The final diagnosis was pulmonary fibrosis and the patient achieved remission. Patient 6 had a relapse resulting in local, intrapulmonary, and pleural metastases 8 months after diagnosis, which were surgically removed. Unfortunately, he did not show any response to subsequent adjuvant chemo- and radiotherapy, and he eventually died. All other patients remained in remission during follow-up.

SAMPLE HANDLING:

Analyzed FFPE samples were from children aged 5 to 9 years (median: 6.5 years) (Table 1). They were all prepared following the UMBRELLA protocol: surgical samples were subjected to immediate 24-h fixation in formaldehyde, then dehydrated by increasing concentrations of ethanol and embedded in paraffin wax. We needed 2 FFPE samples per patient – a case and a control – taken from the same kidney. As tumor samples, we used sections showing sufficient presence of non-necrotic tumor cells (this was not possible in Patients 9 and 10, forcing us to use necrotic tissue). Sections from adjacent tissue samples confirmed to be tumor-free were used as controls.

RNA EXTRACTION AND REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION:

We followed laboratory protocols as published before by our group and others [11,12]. We extracted miRNA from all samples using a miRNeasy FFPE Kit (Cat No. 217504) by Qiagen (Hilden, Germany), noted for its good performance [13]. Reverse transcription to obtain cDNA was performed using miScript II RT Kits (by Qiagen, Cat No. 218160). DNA was stored at −20°C for up to a few days until a PCR experiment was performed. Obtained miRNA and cDNA (complementary DNA) concentrations were adequate in 8 cases, but extraction was unsuccessful in 2 (both produced overwhelmingly necrotic tumor samples with a minimal number of viable cells remaining) which were excluded from further research (Table 1).

PILOT EXPERIMENT WITH QRT-PCR ARRAYS:

A pilot experiment with a single set of samples was designed to identify miRNA deregulations interesting enough to be studied in the rest of the samples. We used 2 SYBR Green-based 96-well miScript miRNA PCR Arrays (by Qiagen, Cat No.: 331221 MIHS-112ZF) containing, in addition to endogenous and exogenous controls, primers for 80 mature miRNAs and 4 miRNA precursors known as pathogenic in prostate cancer and presumed to be relevant in other types of genitourinary cancer such as Wilms’ tumor. Tumor and control cDNA samples from Patient 1 were amplified using the Roche LightCycler 96 PCR system. PCR reactions were initiated by a 15-min activation step at 95°C, consisting of 3-step cycling (denaturation for 15 s at 94°C, annealing for 30 s at 55°C, and extension for 30 s at 70°C) continued for 40 cycles. Data were evaluated by Roche’s own software LightCycler® 96, and analyzed according to the ΔΔCt method [14], using a single endogenous control gene SNORD61 (small nucleolar RNA U61) to ensure an easy comparison between the pilot arrays and later experiments. The reliability of SNORD61 as an endogenous control is supported both by the literature on malignancies of various origin [15,16] and by our own earlier data on Wilms’ tumor [11]. FC (fold change) is defined as 2−ΔΔCt [14], and FC values are shown on a logarithmic scale (hence, log2FC equals the opposite of ΔΔCt).

PCR EXPERIMENTS WITH INDIVIDUAL PRIMERS:

Assessing results from the pilot experiment and comparing them to literature data and to our previous results with non-regressive tumors [11], we chose 4 miRNAs to study in the rest of the samples: miR-128-3p, miR-184, miR-194-5p, and miR-203a (for the rationale of miRNA selection, see Discussion). Next, we used miScript Primer Assays provided by Qiagen for the 4 chosen miRNAs and our endogenous control SNORD61 (Cat No. MS00008582, MS00003640, MS00006727, MS00003766, and MS00033705, respectively). We amplified target sequences from tumor and control cDNA samples of each patient by the Roche LightCycler 96 PCR instrument also used for the pilot arrays. All other experimental (including PCR) conditions and reagents were the same as well, with 1 exception: 96-well PCR plates allowed for technical triplicates, so we used median Ct values to calculate ΔΔCt and fold change. Statistical tests were not performed because of the small sample size. This is an important limitation of our study.

DATABASE SEARCH:

Finally, we used MIENTURNET, a tool to search online databases to reveal and visualize a network of potential or validated miRNA targets [17]. Our query included miR-184, miR-194-5p, and miR-203a, while as a filter, we picked miRTarBase, a database containing experimentally validated targets only, with methods divided into 2 major categories: “strong” (eg, luciferase assays and Western blotting) and “weak” (eg, CLIP [cross-linking immunoprecipitation]).

COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS:

All procedures involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments and approved by an institutional ethics committee (approval statement No. SE RKEB 27/2020). Informed consent was obtained from the parents of all participants in the study.

Results

PILOT EXPERIMENT:

In Table 2, we demonstrate Ct values and fold changes for all precursor and mature miRNAs found on the PCR array we used in the pilot experiment. Results were adequate overall, but with an unusual overexpression of miR-133a, which we considered an artifact (see Discussion). miRNA precursor let-7a-5p was underexpressed with a fold change of −0.84 on the logarithmic scale. miRNAs of the miR-200 family also showed the expected degree of downregulation. Out of 80 mature miRNAs studied, 48 were substantially underexpressed (log2FC lower than −0.5) and 13 were overexpressed (log2FC higher than 0.5), while 19 were slightly or not changed (log2FC between −0.5 and 0.5).

EXPERIMENTS WITH INDIVIDUAL PRIMERS:

Expression data on other patients (IDs: 2 to 8) showed low variance among triplicates. Fold changes of miRNAs that were studied in all 8 patients – miR-128-3p, miR-184, miR-194-5p and miR-203a – are summarized in Table 3. miR-128-3p showed variable changes across samples (elevation in 4 cases, decrease in 3, minimal change in 1 case). Its mean fold change was close to 0. Levels of miR-184 were reduced in 7 cases and elevated in Patient 8. miR-194-5p was downregulated in all 8 cases. miR-203a was shown to be underexpressed in Patients 1 to 7 and overexpressed in Patient 8. Overall, the direction of some expression changes seems to have been reversed in Patient 8 (see Discussion).

NETWORK ANALYSIS:

We visualized targets of miR-184, miR-194-5p, and miR-203a, as obtained using the tool MIENTURNET (Figure 1). BMI1 (B cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration site 1) was shown to be affected by both miR-194-5p and miR-203a, while AKT2 (RAC-beta serine/threonine-protein kinase) was revealed as a common target of miR-184 and miR-203a.

Discussion

miRNAs, due to their short length, are thought to be stable enough to resist degradation and chemical modifications occurring in nucleic acids, especially RNA, as a result of formalin fixation. The quality of extracted miRNA was reported to be stable and unaffected by the preservation protocol used, the only exception being a 12-h delay to fixation, which resulted in a miRNA species-dependent variability in comparison to snap-frozen controls, possibly due to an increased breakdown of longer RNAs to products in the size range of miRNA [18]. Despite the wide availability of FFPE samples in pathological archives and a number of reports suggesting no difference between miRNA profiles obtained from snap-frozen tissue and FFPE samples from children aged 7 to 10 years with various types of cancer [13,19,20], miRNA-profiling from such samples has still not become a mainstream procedure.

Limitations of the present study include a small sample size preventing us from performing statistical analysis, and human bias in the selection of miRNAs for individual PCR experiments. Keeping these factors in mind, we interpret our findings below.

Our results with the pilot array were generally consistent with reports in the literature using frozen blood or tumor tissue as a miRNA source, with a few interesting findings discussed below. We considered the overexpression of miR-133a an artifact and did not include it in the Discussion, not only because of its magnitude, but also because miR-133a is known as a tumor suppressor in many cancer types [21,22], and has been reported to be unchanged [23] or underexpressed [11,24] in Wilms’ tumor.

In an earlier paper, we reported for the first time a miRNA expression analysis with RNA extracted from FFPE samples in Wilms’ tumor, focusing on the deregulation of miR-184, miR-194-5p, miR-203a, and miR-34c-5p [11]. Comparing these results obtained from blastemal tumors to our current pilot array data from regressive ones (Table 2), we decided to study the expression of a few miRNAs that showed interesting deregulations in the pilot experiment and were also featured in our previous paper – miR-184, miR-194-5p, and miR-203a – in all remaining patients, in order to reveal any differences between the pattern of their underexpression in blastemal and regressive tumors. Expression analysis of miR-34c-5p did not produce relevant findings in blastemal tumors, so we picked miR-128, which showed a promising elevation in our pilot array not yet reported in the literature, as the 4th miRNA to be studied. Other notable candidates included miR-205, which generally seems to play a tumor-suppressor role and is lost in some types of cancer [25,26], but the overexpression we observed had been reported before in Wilms’ tumor [23,24], and miR-29b, which was underexpressed in blastemal and regressive Wilms’ tumors, with some authors in support of this [27] and some reporting the opposite [23,24].

miR-128 is known to affect tumorigenesis in a number of cancer types [28] and has been suggested to play various regulatory roles in the central nervous system [29,30], but no reports are available linking it to the pathogenesis or prognosis of Wilms’ tumor. The overexpression we initially observed in Patient 1 was not reproducible across all samples, with some showing an elevation and others a decrease (Table 3).

miR-184, a tumor suppressor of various types of malignancy [31,32], was shown to inhibit autophagy and promote aging in rat glomerular mesangial cells [33]. As shown in Figure 1, its targets include GAS1 (Growth arrest-specific protein 1) [34] and AKT2, through which it suppresses tumorigenesis [35]. However, little is known about its possible function in the human kidneys, let alone in Wilms’ tumor. Earlier papers found it to be unchanged [23], underexpressed [27], or unaffected in anaplastic tumors, but downregulated in non-anaplastic tumors [36], while our own research revealed a pronounced downregulation in blastemal Wilms’ tumors [11]. We observed a similarly striking underexpression in our current set of regressive samples apart from Patient 8 (showing an unusual histology with very little persisting blastemal tissue and a slight elevation of miR-184) (Table 3).

A loss of miR-194-5p has long been known to be characteristic of Wilms’ tumors [23], but its role in the pathogenesis was shrouded in mystery until recently. Liu et al reported that miR-194-5p acts on the target gene Crk (CT10 Regulator of Kinase) and reduces levels of N-cadherin and ZEB1 (Zinc finger E-Box Binding Homeobox 1) while increasing E-cadherin, ultimately inhibiting epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Downregulation of miR-194-5p by Wilms’ tumor tissue is needed for cell migration and invasion (ie, metastasis) [37]. Some other known targets of miR-194-5p are BMI1 [38] and IGF1R (insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor) [39], accounting for its tumor-suppressor role in many other cancer types (Figure 1). Previously, we found the underexpression of this miRNA as seen in blastemal FFPE samples to be well in line with data in the literature obtained from snap-frozen tissue or peripheral blood [11]. Our current results support that conclusion and extend it to regressive tumors (Table 3).

miR-203a is another important tumor suppressor with many targets, some shared with miR-184 and miR-194-5p (Figure 1). Earlier, we were the first group to report the loss of miR-203a in Wilms’ tumor [11]. Since then, other groups also noted its underexpression [36]. One study found it to be among the top 15 downregulated miRNAs (out of 156 deregulated miRNAs) in the disease [40], while another report claimed to have identified JAG1 (Jagged Canonical Notch Ligand 1) mRNA as its target, and suggested that a loss of miR-203a enhances a tumors’ migratory and invasive abilities through the upregulation of JAG1 expression. An underexpression of miR-203a was associated with an increased risk of lymphatic metastasis and an overall poorer prognosis [41]. However, apart from JAG1, miR-203a may also suppress E2F3 (E2F transcription factor 3) according to an in-silico network analysis of Wilms’ tumor [42]. While this regulatory pathway is known to exist in gastric cancer [43], it has yet to be confirmed by experimental evidence in Wilms’ tumor. E2F3 is expressed in all Wilms’ tumor specimens, with higher levels implying a poor prognosis [44,45], and may regulate the let-7a miRNA precursor [46], which is known to play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease [6].

In our set of regressive Wilms’ tumor samples, miR-203a underexpression was detectable in all cases except in Patient 8, who showed a nearly complete regression of blastemal tissue (Table 3). Overall expression of miR-203a, and to an extent that of miR-184 and miR-194-5p, appeared to be less reduced in regressive tumors compared to blastemal ones (Figure 2). It is also interesting to note the generally lower levels of miR-203a in samples containing more blastema, especially in the one that did not respond at all to chemotherapy [11]. Such an association, if confirmed by a larger-scale study in which statistical tests are applicable, may have prognostic and therapeutic implications.

Conclusions

Eighty-eight percent of all our Wilms’ tumor FFPE samples, including regressive specimens, which were the object of our current study and blastemal ones studied earlier, proved to be adequate for miRNA extraction (100% of samples containing visible non-necrotic tumor elements). We encourage other research groups to utilize the FFPE archives as miRNA sources in their projects involving Wilms’ tumor and other diseases. Despite the limitations, our results suggest that the degree of miR-203a underexpression is correlated with persisting blastemal fractions and prognosis of Wilms’ tumors. We plan to perform a larger-scale study to confirm this and reveal the role of other noncoding RNAs in the background of chemoresponsiveness.

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