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Human Molecular Genetics, 2001, Vol. 10, No. 26 3001-3007
© 2001 Oxford University Press

DNA methylation patterns in hereditary human cancers mimic sporadic tumorigenesis

Manel Esteller1,2, Mario F. Fraga2,11, Mingzhou Guo1, Jesus Garcia-Foncillas4, Ingrid Hedenfalk7,13, Andrew K. Godwin5, Joerg Trojan6, Catherine Vaurs-Barrière8, Yves-Jean Bignon8, Susan Ramus15, Javier Benitez3, Trinidad Caldes10, Yoshimitsu Akiyama1,9, Yusuhito Yuasa9, Virpi Launonen14, Maria Jesus Canal11, Roberto Rodriguez11, Gabriel Capella12, Miguel Angel Peinado12, Ake Borg13, Lauri A. Aaltonen14, Bruce A. Ponder15, Stephen B. Baylin1 and James G. Herman1,+

1The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory and 3Human Genetics Laboratory, Molecular Pathology Program, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain, 4Laboratory of Biotechnology and Genomics, Clinica Universitaria Pamplona, University of Navarra, Spain, 5Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 6Department of Internal Medicine, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 7Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 8Laboratoire d’Oncologie Moleculaire, Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 9Department of Molecular Oncology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 10Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 11Department of Biochemistry, School of Biology, Oviedo, Spain, 12Institut de Recerca Oncologica and Institut Catala d’Oncologia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 13Department of Oncology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, 14Department of Medical Genetics, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and 15Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Received August 15, 2001; Revised and Accepted October 19, 2001.


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Cancer cells have aberrant patterns of DNA methylation including hypermethylation of gene promoter CpG islands and global demethylation of the genome. Genes that cause familial cancer, as well as other genes, can be silenced by promoter hypermethylation in sporadic tumors, but the methylation of these genes in tumors from kindreds with inherited cancer syndromes has not been well characterized. Here, we examine CpG island methylation of 10 genes (hMLH1, BRCA1, APC, LKB1, CDH1, p16INK4a, p14ARF, MGMT, GSTP1 and RARß2) and 5-methylcytosine DNA content, in inherited (n = 342) and non-inherited (n = 215) breast and colorectal cancers. Our results show that singly retained alleles of germline mutated genes are never hypermethylated in inherited tumors. However, this epigenetic change is a frequent second ‘hit’, associated with the wild-type copy of these genes in inherited tumors where both alleles are retained. Global hypomethylation was similar between sporadic and hereditary cases, but distinct differences existed in patterns of methylation at non-familial genes. This study demonstrates that hereditary cancers ‘mimic’ the DNA methylation patterns present in the sporadic tumors.


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It is estimated that ~5–10% of cancers occurs with a strong familial association. In colorectal carcinoma, the two most common hereditary predisposition syndromes are hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), caused by germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes (mainly hMLH1 and hMSH2) and APC, respectively (reviewed in 1,2). A third, less prevalent, familial colon tumor disease is the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, caused by germline mutations in the serine/threonine kinase LKB1 (3,4). In sporadic colorectal tumors, the hMLH1, APC and LKB1 genes may undergo transcriptional inactivation by promoter hypermethylation of their respective CpG islands (510). hMLH1 hypermethylation is tightly linked in sporadic colon tumors with microsatellite instability (68), aberrant methylation of APC is seen in 18% of sporadic colon cancers that lack APC gene mutations (5,9) and LKB1 CpG island methylation is present in a small group of sporadic colon tumors with characteristic pathological features that resemble Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (10). Only a few attempts to clarify the impact of aberrant CpG island methylation of any of these described genes in inherited colon tumors have been reported (11,12) and the methylation profile of other candidate genes (5) in these familial tumors is largely unknown.

For breast cancers, germline mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes account for a fraction of inherited susceptibility to mammary tumors. Similar to hMLH1, APC and LKB1 in the colon tumors, BRCA1 also undergoes CpG island hypermethylation in a subset of sporadic breast tumors (13,14), whereas BRCA2 does not (15). The impact and significance of the epigenetic silencing of BRCA1 is functionally equivalent to carrying a germline BRCA1 mutation. Both events lead to the same disturbance of gene expression in a cancer cell, as we have demonstrated recently (16). However, BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations do not account for the whole spectrum of hereditary breast cancer. This last set of breast tumors, where there is a strong family history in the absence of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, has been designated as BRCAX tumors (17). No reports of BRCA1 promoter hypermethylation or even aberrant methylation of any other candidate genes in the hereditary breast tumors have been reported.

Epigenetic changes in cancer are not limited to hypermethylation of gene promoter CpG islands, but also include a simultaneous global demethylation of the genome (5,1820). Total DNA hypomethylation of the malignant cell has been proposed as a cause for chromosomal instability, reactivation of endogenous viral sequences and up-regulation of certain genes (reviewed in 18,20). No studies examining hereditary cancers for 5-methylcytosine (m5dC) DNA content have been reported.

In the present study, we examined hypermethylation of familial cancer genes, other frequently methylated non-familial genes, and total levels of methylation in both sporadic and inherited forms of breast and colon cancer to determine similarities and differences in epigenetic processes in these alternate pathways of cancer development.


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Promoter hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes as a ‘second hit’ in hereditary tumors
We have previously demonstrated for the four familial genes included in our study, hMLH1, APC, LKB1 and BRCA1, that promoter hypermethylation at these loci analyzed by methylation-specific PCR (MSP) correlates with loss of gene expression (7,9,10,13). Here, we examine how epigenetic inactivation relates to the germline mutational data and LOH status.

Two-thirds of HNPCC tumors show no identifiable second hit (12,2123) and promoter methylation may be a likely mechanism to accomplish biallelic inactivation. In our study, four of 10 (40%) HNPCC tumors with hMLH1 germline mutations but without LOH at hMLH1 gene were methylated at hMLH1, as opposed to none of the eight hMLH1 germline mutant tumors with LOH (Table 1; Fig. 1). An identical scenario was seen for the methylation status of LKB1 in Peutz-Jeghers colon tumors. In these Peutz-Jeghers families, the LKB1 CpG island was hypermethylated in two of seven (29%) tumors that retained both copies of the gene, whereas no hypermethylation was seen for the LKB1 gene in 13 tumors from Peutz-Jeghers families that had LOH at this locus (Table 1).


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Table 1. Promoter hypermethylation as a second ‘hit’ in hereditary human cancer
 


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Figure 1. Analysis of CpG island promoter hypermethylation by MSP in tumors from families. The presence of a visible PCR product in lane U indicates the presence of unmethylated genes, the presence of product in lane M indicates the presence of methylated genes. Normal lymphocytes (NL) and in vitro methylated DNA (IVD) were used as negative and positive controls for methylation, respectively. (A) MSP of hMLH1 in HNPCC colorectal tumors (Col1–Col3) with germline mutations in hMLH1. Note the presence of hMLH1 hypermethylation in Col2 and Col3 that did not have LOH at the hMLH1 locus, whereas the tumor Col1, that had LOH at hMLH1, did not show methylation. (B) MSP of BRCA1 in breast tumors (Br1–Br4) with BRCA1 germline mutations. The only tumor without LOH at the BRCA1 locus (Br3) had BRCA1 promoter hypermethylation.

 
In contrast, hypermethylation of the APC gene is extremely uncommon in tumors from FAP families with APC germline mutations. Only one of 84 (1%) samples analyzed was hypermethylated at the APC promoter and that single tumor with aberrant methylation retained both alleles (Table 1). In the case of APC, the well known existence of secondary somatic mutations of APC in the allele that does not carry the germline APC mutation (2,24), may well explain the low rate of APC hypermethylation found.

In hereditary breast tumors, our data also support a role for aberrant methylation as a ‘second hit’ in these neoplasms. In most tumors from BRCA1 families, we have found a high rate of LOH at the BRCA1 locus that accounts for the vast majority of BRCA1 biallelic inactivation. None of the 21 BRCA1 familial tumors with LOH at the BRCA1 locus had BRCA1 methylation (Table 1). However, of the two tumors from BRCA1 mutant families that retained both alleles, one was methylated at the BRCA1 CpG island (Table 1; Fig. 1). Thus, BRCA1 promoter hypermethylation may play a role as a second event of inactivation in BRCA1 families, but this mode of inactivation is infrequent due to the dominance of genetic deletions as ‘second hits’.

In total, for these genetic forms of breast and colon cancer, 0 of 44 alleles in tumors with LOH at the respective loci showed hypermethylation of the promoter region, whereas this change was present in eight of 26 tumors (31%, P < 0.0001) in which both copies of the genes were retained (Table 1). This emphasizes the non-stochastic selective advantage of this epigenetic change in that a second hit is not required on a singly retained mutated allele to achieve functional ablation of the gene. Intriguingly, for all of the germline mutation genes examined, there still remains a subset of tumors without an apparent second ‘hit’ involving either LOH or methylation. In these cases, a dominant effect of the germline mutation or a somatic mutation may be present, as demonstrated for CDH1 (25) and APC (2,24).

Profile of CpG island hypermethylation in hereditary breast and colon tumors
Genes other than the classic tumor suppressor genes hMLH1, APC, LKB1 and BRCA1 can also undergo inactivation by promoter hypermethylation. To look at this epigenetic change in sporadic and inherited tumors, we examined genes frequently methylated in colon and breast cancers. For each gene, we have previously shown that hypermethylation at these sites correlates with gene silencing and that the silencing can be partially relieved by demethylation of the promoter region (18,20).

Tumors occurring in the setting of FAP and HNPCC share many of the same epigenetic changes as sporadic colorectal cancer, albeit at slightly decreased frequency (Table 2). For the cell-cycle inhibitor p16INK4a, the MDM2-p53 regulator p14ARF and the DNA repair O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) genes, the percentage of FAP and HNPCC tumors with promoter region methylation was different ({chi}2, P < 0.05) from sporadic colorectal tumors. The only exception was MGMT methylation in HNPCC tumors which occurred at the same frequency as in sporadic tumors ({chi}2, P = 0.11) (Table 2; Fig. 2). The combination of mismatch repair deficiency and MGMT inactivation has been observed in cancer cells leading to tolerance to alkylating agents and high mutational rates (26). Similar enhanced mutagenicity can be invoked in one case that had germline hMSH2 mutation and hMLH1 hypermethylation. Simultaneous disruption of two mismatch repair genes has been described by Malkhosyan et al. (27). In contrast to FAP and HNPCC tumors, Peutz-Jeghers tumors demonstrated relatively few epigenetic changes at these genes, except p16INK4a methylation (Table 2; Fig. 2). This lack of epigenetic similarity is consistent with the different pathological phenotype of this tumor.


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Table 2. CpG island aberrant methylation in sporadic and hereditary human cancer
 


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Figure 2. CpG island methylation profile of sporadic and hereditary colorectal cancer. Each column represents a separate gene locus. Each row is a primary colorectal tumor. Methylated genes are represented as darker rectangles and unmethylated genes are displayed as brighter rectangles.

 
Unlike colorectal cancer where the patterns of epigenetic alterations were similar but at lower frequency in familial tumors, in breast cancer we find that tumors occurring in the familial setting have distinct differences. BRCA1 tumors resembled sporadic breast cancer for methylation frequencies of p16INK4a, CDH1 and retinoic acid receptor ß-2 (RARß2) (Table 2; Fig. 3), but had a much lower frequency of glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) methylation (24 versus 4%; {chi}2, P = 0.0001). In contrast, BRCA2-associated tumors had a slightly higher frequency of p16INK4a methylation (26 versus 15%; {chi}2, P = 0.13) and lower frequencies of methylation of the other genes ({chi}2, P = 0.02–0.07) (Table 2; Fig. 3). We had three BRCA2 breast tumors that also displayed BRCA1 aberrant methylation (Fig. 3). Simultaneous LOH of both BRCA1 and BRCA2 loci happens in sporadic breast tumors and a de novo BRCA1 mutation has been found in a BRCA2 patient (28). In our last group, BRCAX tumors, the epigenetic profile appears to be a merger of BRCA1 and BRCA2 patterns (Table 2; Fig. 3), though the sample size is limiting.



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Figure 3. CpG island methylation profile of sporadic and hereditary breast cancer. Each column represents a separate gene locus. Each row is a primary breast tumor. Methylated genes are represented as darker rectangles and unmethylated genes are displayed as brighter rectangles.

 
Global genomic hypomethylation in hereditary tumors
We also analyzed whether the decrease in overall genomic DNA methylation seen in sporadic forms of cancer (29,30) occurs in familial forms of tumors. This generalized loss of m5dC in malignant cells occurs mainly in the CpGs scattered in the ‘bodies’ of genes and also in repetitive sequences (29,30).

In our series, the m5dC DNA content, analyzed by high performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE), was 30 and 56% lower for sporadic colorectal (n = 26) and breast (n = 13) tumors, respectively, as compared to normal tissues (34 normal colon plus 15 normal breasts) (Fig. 4). Colorectal and breast cancer cell lines (n = 9) also had similar values of m5dC loss (47% reduction) and Drosophila melanogaster D.Mel 2 cells only showed minimal vestiges of m5dC, as expected (31) (Fig. 4). The hereditary tumors studied from FAP (n = 19), HNPCC (n = 13), BRCA1 (n = 15) and BRCA2 (n = 9) patients also displayed global hypomethylation with average decreases of their m5dC DNA content of 43, 42, 42 and 30%, respectively (Fig. 4). These values, do not differ statistically between hereditary tumors and their sporadic counterparts ({chi}2, P > 0.05). Thus, hereditary human tumors undergo a global hypomethylation of their genomes as sporadic tumors do.



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Figure 4. Measurement of m5dC content in human sporadic and hereditary tumorigenesis as a percentage of the total cytosine pool. Median and SD are shown in the following groups from left to right: normal human tissues (34 colon and 15 breast), colorectal and breast cultured cancer cell lines (n = 9), the D.melanogaster D.Mel 2 cells, sporadic colon tumors (n = 26), FAP tumors (n = 19), HNPCC tumors (n = 13), sporadic breast tumors (n = 13), BRCA1 tumors (n = 15) and BRCA2 (n = 9) tumors.

 

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Our results confirm in a systematic fashion using one of the largest collections of hereditary tumor samples that CpG island promoter hypermethylation may be considered a ‘bona fide’ mechanism to accomplish ‘second hits’ for the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes in families. Clues for this scenario had previously been reported in studies of CDH1, VHL and hMLH1 aberrant methylation in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer, familial renal cancer and HNPCC tumors, respectively (11,12,25,32). Our findings expand these early observations and highlight the selective advantage of epigenetic gene silencing. Our results show that aberrant methylation of the CpG island is never present when only a mutant allele is present in the tumor. If two alleles are present and the tumor has a germline mutation, promoter methylation may accomplish the biallelic inactivation of that particular gene acting on the retained wild-type allele. This data also agrees with our previous description of the p16INK4a methylation status in a colorectal cancer cell line that retains two alleles of p16INK4a: one allele is mutant and unmethylated and the other is wild-type and hypermethylated (33). In the familial tumors, the importance of epigenetic inactivation depends on the gene. Tumors with germline mutations in APC or BRCA1, because they have frequent ‘genetic’ second-hits, somatic mutations and LOH, respectively, have little ‘room’ for methylation. In HNPCC and Peutz-Jeghers tumors, more ‘epigenetic’ second-hits may be observed.

We also found that hereditary tumors demonstrate other epigenetic alterations, CpG island hypermethylation of other tumor suppressor genes and global hypomethylation, in a similar extent to non-familial tumors. These findings agree with the data from the studies of molecular alterations in familial colorectal and breast tumors that show that they also harbor similar alterations in oncogenes (K-ras, MYB) or tumor suppressor genes (p53, TGFßRII, LOH at different loci, etc.) as the sporadic forms do. Thus, familial tumors are ‘pushed’ through the tumorigenic pathway due to their initial germline mutation, but other genetic and epigenetic lesions are also necessary.

In conclusion, our results suggest that epigenetic changes in familial breast and colon cancer are similar to the sporadic forms of these cancers, but with some qualitative and quantitative differences. Overall methylation levels are comparable, but methylation of certain CpG islands differs between sporadic and inherited forms of cancer. Subsequent to genetic initial alterations of ‘gatekeeper’ and ‘caretaker’ genes, such as BRCA1, hMLH1 and APC, the progression of both sporadic and inherited tumors appears to share and need an altered state of DNA methylation. Most notably, hypermethylation of gene promoters can frequently play a direct role in the silencing of wild-type genes either as a primary or second hit in both genetic and sporadic forms of the disease.


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Tumor samples and mutational characterization
The set of sporadic colorectal and breast tumors samples analyzed is described in part by Esteller et al. (5,9,13). Additional cases of sporadic tumors were obtained from the Hospitals Duran i Reynals and Clinica Dexeus, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. The study protocols were approved by the corresponding Ethics Committees. All the samples were frozen in liquid nitrogen immediately after resection and stored at –80°C until processing. DNA was extracted by standard methods. Analysis of germline mutations and loss of heterozygosity in hMLH1, hMSH2, APC, LKB1, BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the familial tumors is described elsewhere (3,9,11,16,3440). In BRCA1 (n = 99) and BRCA2 (n = 34) tumors, each sample was obtained from an independent patient. In all these 123 cases, a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 was found. Among the familial colorectal tumors, 70 HNPCC tumors were obtained from 66 independent patients, 84 FAP tumors from 25 independent patients, and 26 Peutz-Jeghers tumors from six independent patients. According to the germline mutational characterization, 61 of 66 HNPCC patients had a demonstrable mutation in hMLH1 or hMSH2, 19 of 25 FAP patients had a mutation in APC and all six Peutz-Jeghers patients had a mutation in LKB1.

Analysis of CpG islands methylation status
DNA methylation patterns in the CpG islands of each gene were determined by chemical modification of the unmethylated, but not the methylated, cytosines to uracil, and subsequent PCR using primers specific for either the methylated or the modified unmethylated DNA. The primers and PCR conditions for the MSP analysis have been previously described for p16INK4a, p14ARF, APC, MGMT, LKB1, hMLH1, BRCA1, GSTP1 and CDH1 (5,7,9,10,13). In all cases the presence of methylation at these CpG sites has been correlated with loss of gene expression (5,7,9,10,13). Primer sequences for RARß2 were for the unmethylated reaction 5'-TTG GGA TGT TGA GAA TGT GAG TGA TTT-3' (upper primer) and 5'-CTT ACT CAA CCA ATC CAA CCA AAA CAA-3' (lower primer) and for the methylated reaction 5'-TGT CGA GAA CGC GAG CGA TTC-3' (upper primer) and 5'-CGA CCA ATC CAA CCG AAA CGA-3' (lower primer). The annealing temperature was 60°C. Placental DNA treated in vitro with SssI methyltransferase was used for positive control for methylated alleles and DNA from normal lymphocytes was used as negative control for methylated alleles. A 12 µl aliquot of each PCR reaction was directly loaded onto non-denaturing 6% polyacrylamide gels, stained with ethidium bromide and visualized under UV illumination.

Determination of methylcytosine (mC) content
The m5dC content in normal and tumoral DNA from colorectal and breast tumors was determined by HPCE as described by Fraga et al. (41). One microgram of DNA was incubated in 20 µl 88% (v/v) formic acid at 140°C for 90 min. After hydrolysis, the samples were reduced to dryness by speed-vac concentration (Savant SC-200). Finally, the dried hydrolyzed samples were re-dissolved in 2 µl H2O Milli-Q grade and stored at –20°C until their analysis. An uncoated fused-silica capillary (Waters Chromatography S.A.) (600 x 0.075 mm i.d., effective length 540 mm) was used in a capillary electrophoresis system (Capillary Ion Analyzer; Waters Chromatography S.A.) connected to a processing data station Millenium32" (Waters Chromatography S.A.). The running buffer used was 24 mM NaHCO3 pH 9.6 plus 36 mM SDS. The running condition was at 25°C and an operating voltage of 20 kV. On-column absorbance was monitored at 256 nm. Before each run, the capillary was conditioned by washing with 1 mM NaOH for 1 min, followed by 0.1 M NaOH for 3 min and equilibrated with the running buffer for 3 min. Buffers and washing solutions were prepared with Milli-Q water and filtered through 0.45 µm pore size filters. Hydrolyzed samples were injected hydrostatically at 9.8 cm for 15 s, having been previously filtered through 0.45 µm pore filters. Three replicate analyses of each sample were performed and the quantification of the relative methylation in the DNA samples was calculated as the percentage of the mC of the total cytosines (C), calculated as follows: mC peak area x 100/(C peak area + mC peak area).


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+ To whom correspondence should be addressed at: The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Room 543, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA. Tel: +1 410 955 8506; Fax: +1 410 614 9884; Email: hermanji@jhmi.edu Back


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