Application of serum CA2 protein in preparation of liver cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation kit
(I) technical field
The invention relates to an application of a serum CA2 protein in preparation of a liver cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation kit and the kit.
(II) background of the invention
Liver cancer is one of common malignant tumors of the digestive system, and has high malignancy, poor prognosis and annual incidence rate. China is a high incidence area of liver cancer, and according to latest statistics of Chinese cancers, new cases and death people of liver cancer in China all live at the top of the world and seriously threaten the health and life of people. At present, the comprehensive treatment mainly based on surgical resection is still the main mode and the most effective means for treating liver cancer, however, the liver cancer is easy to transfer and relapse after operation, the relapse and metastasis rate within 1 year after operation is up to 20-30%, and the relapse and metastasis rate within 5 years is up to 50-70%. Therefore, the biological characteristic of easy metastasis and recurrence of liver cancer is the bottleneck problem of further improving the treatment effect of liver cancer, reducing the death rate of liver cancer and improving the long-term survival rate of liver cancer at present. If the HCC can be predicted and diagnosed as soon as possible and active and effective measures can be taken for prevention and treatment in time before the HCC recurrence and metastasis, the method has important significance for further improving the treatment effect of the liver cancer.
Carbonic Anhydrase II (CA 2) is the most active member in the family of anhydrases, participates in gas transport, acid-base regulation, and tissue secretion, and plays an important role in maintaining the stability of the internal environment. Since CA2 can catalyze CO with high efficiency2Hydration reaction of (2) to produce H + and HCO3-,HCO3-exchange with intracellular Cl-to maintain an intracellular alkaline environment, and transport of intracellular H + out of the cell by means of H + -Na + ion pumps, turning the extracellular environment into an acidic environment. Therefore, CA2 is likely to catalyze CO reversibly2And HCO3-interconversion of (a) into (b), involving acidification of the extracellular microenvironment. This suggests that CA2 can influence tumorigenesis by modulating the pH of the tumor cell microenvironment; whereas the low pH of the extracellular microenvironment is generally considered to be a marker for the abundance of invasiveness and poor prognosis of tumors, changes in the expression level of CA2 have a significant impact on tumorigenesis and its biological behavior.
Disclosure of the invention
The invention aims to research whether CA2 can be used as a marker for liver cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and provides application of serum CA2 protein in preparation of a kit for liver cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation and the kit.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
application of a serum CA2(Carbonic Anarase II) protein in preparation of a kit for liver cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation.
The invention also relates to a kit for liver cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation, which takes the characteristic peptide segment of the serum CA2 protein as a detection marker and mainly comprises the following components: heavy-mark peptide segment (heavy-mark arginine or lysine) synthesized according to characteristic peptide segment of serum CA2 protein13C,15N), detection reagents, and E L ISA kit of CA2 protein.
Specifically, the sequence of the characteristic peptide segment of the serum CA2 protein is GGP L DGTYR or SADFTNFDPR.
The detection reagent is a common reagent in mass spectrometric detection in the field, and comprises PBS (pH7.4), pancreatin (sequencing grade), ammonium bicarbonate (500mM), water (mass spectrometry grade), acetonitrile (chromatography grade) and formic acid.
The E L ISA kit of the CA2 protein can be prepared by self or can adopt a commercial product.
The invention utilizes iTRAQ (interactive tags for relative and absolute quantification, iTRAQ) combined with MS/MS technology to detect the secretory proteins of the cancer tissues, the tissues beside the cancer and the distant tissues of a liver cancer patient and utilizes iTRAQ combined with MS/MS technology to detect the follow-up serum before postoperative recurrence of the liver cancer patient, and commonly discovers a biomarker CA2, wherein the secretion amount of the biomarker CA2 in the liver cancer tissues and the tissues beside the cancer is obviously higher than that of the distant tissues, the secretion of the liver cancer tissues is obviously higher than that of the tissues beside the cancer, the concentration of CA2 protein in the serum before recurrence of the liver cancer patient is obviously higher than that of the serum of a non-recurrence patient, and the E L ISA and Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) verify that the CA2 protein is obviously higher in the serum of the liver cancer patients than that of healthy people and the serum concentration of the non-recurrence patients.
The invention has the main beneficial effects that the invention adopts the quantitative proteomics technology based on the iTRAQ marker, integrates the in vitro secretory proteomics and in vivo serum proteomics data to carry out comprehensive and systematic research on liver cancer patients, provides a new application and a kit of the serum CA2 protein as a liver cancer patient serum diagnosis and prognosis marker, and the marker is verified by E L ISA and mass spectrum PRM, has more reliable results and can provide valuable information for clinical application.
(IV) description of the drawings
FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the work of the liver cancer tissue secretory proteome;
FIG. 2 is a PSM map of peptide fragments GGP L DGTYR and SADFTNFDPR of CA2 protein;
FIG. 3 shows PRM verification results of CA2 mass spectrum;
FIG. 4 shows the concentration of CA2 in serum of PRM patients with liver cancer and healthy persons; p <0.05, P <0.01, P < 0.001;
FIG. 5 is a ROC curve assessment of the sensitivity and specificity of CA2 in liver cancer diagnosis;
FIG. 6 shows the results of E L ISA test for the serum CA2 concentration of patients with recurrent/non-recurrent liver cancer, P <0.05, P <0.01, P < 0.001;
FIG. 7 is a ROC curve of CA2 in diagnosing postoperative recurrence of liver cancer;
FIG. 8 is a Kaplan-Meier method for analyzing the relationship between the CA2 serum concentration and the postoperative recurrence of a liver cancer patient.
(V) detailed description of the preferred embodiments
The invention will be further described with reference to specific examples, but the scope of the invention is not limited thereto:
sources of reagents in the examples:
main instrument
Example 1:
the secretory protein group technology detects that the concentration of secretory protein CA2 of cancer tissues of liver cancer patients is obviously higher than the secretory concentration of paracarcinoma tissues and far cancer tissues.
1. Detecting a sample:
selecting secretory protein extracted from tissue culture supernatant of a patient who is treated primarily with liver cancer and is not treated by operation or chemotherapy before surgery in 2013, 11 months to 2014, 12 months in hepatobiliary surgery in Mengtao hepatobiliary Hospital, Fujian medical university.
2. The detection method comprises the following steps:
(1) displacing the lysate, and performing FASP enzymolysis;
(2) extracting a quantitative 100 mu g of secretory proteolysis peptide fragment from the tissue culture supernatant of the patient, respectively marking the mixture of all far cancer tissue secretory proteins by an iTRAQ reagent 113 according to the iTRAQ kit specification for internal reference correction, marking the individual sample by 114 plus 119 (liver cancer tissue, para-cancer tissue and far cancer tissue, 2 biological repetitions), totally marking 5 iTRAQ kits, totally 10 biological repetitions, 10 technical repetitions, mixing and freeze-drying;
(3) desalting the marked peptide section by using a Sep-Pak Vac C18 extraction column;
(4) desalted peptide fragment is 95% H2O + 5% ACN at PH 10, then re-suspended at high PH using an HP L C (high performance liquid chromatography) system connected to a C18 reverse phase column, and 80 tube fractions were collected;
(5) each fraction was treated with 32. mu. L0.1.1% FA + 99.9% H2O, carrying out heavy suspension, nano-liter liquid phase separation and analyzing by using an online electrospray tandem mass spectrometer;
(6) mass spectrum data was searched using Thermo Scientific protome discovery version 1.4 software and matched with UniprotKB human Proteome database;
(7) the bioinformation analysis uses SecretomeP 2.0Server software to detect signal peptide and predict secretory protein; and (3) obtaining a quantitative protein list and the expression quantity of each group of samples of each secretory protein by using Scaffold _4.3.2 software, drawing a protein differential expression spectrum, and screening the significantly differentially expressed secretory protein.
3. And (3) detection results:
CA2 is up-regulated in both C/F group (liver cancer tissue is farther than cancer tissue) and P/F group (para-cancer tissue is farther than cancer tissue), and the ratios of peptide segments in two groups of co-expressed differential secretory proteins are respectively 2.50 and 3.09, which shows that the change of CA2 expression level has important influence on the generation of liver cancer and the biological behavior thereof.
Example 2:
the serum protein technology detects that the concentration of the serum protein CA2 before the recurrence of the liver cancer patient is obviously higher than that of the patient without the recurrence.
1. Detecting a sample:
collecting follow-up serum of 1, 3, 6 and 9 months after radical treatment of 4 liver cancer patients (A, B, C, D) in Mengtao hepatobiliary Hospital, Fujian medical university respectively, extracting 5m L of fasting venous blood from the patients meeting the requirements to a biochemical tube, taking the blood from an ice box, centrifuging the blood at 3000rpm and 4 ℃ for 10 minutes, taking the upper layer of serum, subpackaging and storing the serum in a refrigerator at 80 ℃ below zero.
2. The detection method comprises the following steps:
(1) removing high-abundance protein in serum by using an Agilent multiple affinity removal system MARS-Human 14 liquid chromatographic column;
(2) each group of sera was quantitated at 100. mu.g and trypsinized according to the iTRAQ kit instructions. 2 iTRAQ kits were used, one iTRAQ kit for the low abundance protein peptide of patient A, B and one iTRAQ kit for the low abundance protein peptide of patient C, D. Patient a4 follow-up sera were labeled 113, 114, 115, 116, respectively, and patient B4 was labeled 117, 118, 119, 121, respectively; patient C4 follow-up sera were labeled 113, 114, 115, 116, respectively, and patient D4 follow-up sera were labeled 117, 118, 119, 121, respectively.
(3) Mix dried iTRAQ labeled samples with 95% H2O + 5% ACN, pH 10 redissolving, passing the mixed sample through a C18 reverse phase column into 80 fractions;
(4) and respectively carrying out low-pH value nanoliter liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry identification on each fraction.
(5) Mass spectrum data was searched using Thermo Scientific protome discovery version 1.4 software and matched with UniprotKB human Proteome database;
3. and (3) detection results:
the mass spectrum result shows that the concentration of the serum protein CA2 before the recurrence of the liver cancer patient is obviously higher than that of the patient without the recurrence.
Example 3: the concentration of CA2 in the liver cancer patient serum detected by PRM technology is obviously higher than that in the healthy people.
1. Detecting a sample:
PRM analysis is carried out on preoperative serum of HBV related liver cancer patients and matched healthy serum. The number of patients with liver cancer is 49, including 24 recurrent patients and 25 non-recurrent patients. Before the operation, no anti-tumor treatment is performed, and the follow-up data is complete. At the same time, 23 paired healthy human sera were collected as controls.
2. The detection method comprises the following steps:
(1) according to the data of the prophase liver cancer tissue secretory proteomics, the PSM maps of characteristic peptide segments GGP L DGTYR and SADFTNFDPR uniquely expressed by CA2 are selected, and a heavy standard peptide segment (heavy standard arginine 13C15N) is synthesized, and the PSM maps of the characteristic peptide segments GGP L DGTYR (left) and SADFTNFDPR (right) of the CA2 protein are shown in figure 2.
(2) A Multiple affinity exclusion System (MARS) for removing 14 kinds of high-abundance proteins from Human beings by hplc and Agilent corporation was used to remove 14 kinds of high-abundance proteins such as albumin, IgG, and antitrypsin from the serum samples of the liver cancer patients and healthy people to obtain low-abundance proteins, and the proteins were subjected to trypsinization.
(3) The synthesized heavy-label peptide fragment is taken as an internal standard and doped into a serum sample without high-abundance protein, and mass spectrum identification and quantification are carried out by utilizing a targeted quantitative proteomics technology-Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM), so as to detect the serum concentration of CA2 in liver cancer patients. The results of the CA2 mass spectrum PRM validation are shown in FIG. 3.
(4) And (3) data analysis: searching a library by using Thermo Scientific proteome scanner 2.1 software for the original data obtained by the PRM, matching with a Uniprot human proteome database (http:// www.uniprot.org/Uniprot), wherein the result can be used as a new database, introducing the original data obtained by the PRM into Skyline software for result analysis with the confidence coefficient of 99%, analyzing the content ratio of the target peptide segment to the re-calibration peptide segment, and comparing the absolute quantitative values of the target peptide segments among groups.
3. And (3) detection results:
as a result, the concentration mean value of CA2 in the serum of liver cancer patients is 13.72pg/m L2, the concentration mean value of CA2 in the serum of healthy people is 6.357pg/m L2, and the concentration of CA2 in the serum of healthy people is respectively obviously higher than that in the serum of normal people (P < 0.01).
Results of ROC curve evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of CA2 in liver cancer diagnosis are shown in FIG. 5, and as shown in FIG. 5, the area under the curve of the diagnosis CA2 by ROC analysis is 0.715, which has statistical significance (P < 0.05). The diagnostic method shows high sensitivity and good diagnostic specificity.
Example 4 ISA E L ISA test shows that the serum CA2 concentration of patients with liver cancer before relapse is obviously higher than the contemporaneous concentration of patients without relapse
1. Detecting a specimen:
serum samples were taken from post-operative serum from HCC patients who underwent radical resection and regular follow-up in the monto hepatobiliary hospital, university of fujian medical, between 2 months 2014 and 2016 9 months. In total, 82 liver cancer clinical samples were collected, of which 23 patients with non-recurrent liver cancer and 59 patients with recurrent liver cancer. 2. The detection method comprises the following steps:
(1) the E L ISA kit reagents for CA2 protein were slowly equilibrated to room temperature.
(2) Preparing a standard substance according to a Kit, namely adding 1 tube of the standard substance into a standard substance Diluent 1m L, gently mixing the standard substance and the Diluent, standing the mixture at room temperature for 10 minutes to prepare a 20ng/m L standard substance concentrated solution, diluting the standard substance according to the instruction method in turn by times, wherein the standard substance Diluent consists of Sample Diluent (L ife Biosciences, Inc. Human CA2/Carbonic anhydride II E L ISA Kit (Sandwich E L ISA) Catalog NO. L S-F4349).
(3) The preparation of the secondary antibody working solution comprises adding 150 mul of secondary antibody diluent into 1 tube of secondary antibody freeze-dried powder to prepare 100 × concentrated solution, and diluting the secondary antibody concentrated solution by 100 times of the secondary antibody diluent to prepare the secondary antibody working solution before use, wherein the secondary antibody diluent comprises AssayDiluent A (L ife Biosciences, Inc. Human CA2/Carbonic anhydride II E L ISA Kit (Sandwich E L ISA) Catalog NO. L S-F4349).
(4) Preparation of Streptavidin HRP working solution A100-fold dilution of a Streptavidin HRP concentrate was performed just before use, followed by mixing with HRP Diluent consisting of Assay Diluent B (L ifeScan Biosciences, Inc. HumanCA2/Carbonic anhydride II E L ISA Kit (Sandwich E L ISA) Catalog NO. L S-F4349).
(5) Wash preparation 25m L concentrated wash was diluted to 500m L with 475m L distilled water.
(6) The serum was diluted 60-fold with the sample diluent, 100. mu.l of the standard and serum were added to a 96-well microplate in sequence, covered with blocking paper and incubated at 37 ℃ for 2 hours, and the concentrated washing solution consisted of Wash Buffer (30 ×) (L ifeBanbiosciences, Inc. Human CA2/Carbonic Anhydrase II E L ISA Kit (Sandwich E L ISA) Catalog NO L S-F4349).
(7) Discard all liquid and wash 3 times.
(8) Add 100. mu.l of secondary antibody working solution to each well, cover the sealing paper, and incubate at 37 ℃ for 1 hour.
(9) Discard all liquid and wash 3 times.
(10) Add 100. mu.l of HRP working solution to each well, cover the blocking paper, and incubate at 37 ℃ for 30 min.
(11) Discard all liquid and wash 3 times.
(12) Add 100. mu.l of substrate per well, the liquid slowly turns blue and incubate for 10 min at room temperature.
(13) Add 100. mu.l of stop solution to each well and change the solution from blue to yellow.
(14) The OD value was measured with a 450nm wavelength plate reader.
(15) And (3) calculating: and calculating a linear regression equation of the standard curve by using CurveExpert software according to the concentration of the standard substance and the corresponding OD value, and calculating the concentration of CA2 of the sample on the regression equation by using the OD value of the sample.
3. And (3) detection results:
the results showed that the pre-relapse serum concentration of CA2 was significantly higher in the relapsed patients than in the non-relapsed patients, and that the post-operative serum concentration of CA2 was on average 29.96. + -. 10.9ng/m L in the non-relapsed patients, whereas in the post-operative serum of the relapsed patients, it was as high as 48.96. + -. 30.4ng/m L, which were statistically significantly different (P <0.05), see FIG. 6.
The ROC curve of CA2 for diagnosing postoperative recurrence of hepatocarcinoma is shown in FIG. 7 (ROC analysis is performed on the content of CA2 in the serum of patients with recurrence and those without recurrence, the result shows that CA2 has statistical significance (P <0.05), the area under the curve (AUC) is 0.723) in predicting postoperative recurrence of hepatocarcinoma, the relationship between the serum concentration of CA2 and postoperative recurrence of hepatocarcinoma patients is shown in FIG. 8 (by Kaplan-Meier survival curve analysis, whether the serum concentration after CA2 operation is related to postoperative recurrence-free survival rate of HCC patients or not, the result (FIG. 8) shows that the recurrence-free survival rate of CA2 is shown in the group with low concentration of CA2(CA 2<41.8ng/m L), and the recurrence-free survival rate of 10 months, 20 months and 30 months is respectively 50.0%, 44% and 44%, while the recurrence-free survival rate of CA2(CA 2 is not less than 41.8ng/m L) is shown in the group with 10 months, 20 months and 30 months, 17%, 15% and 15.