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Structural determination and gynecological tumor diagnosis using antibody chip captured proteins
Li, Shihong & Zhang, Xiaofei
Abstract
Purpose: To identify markers for gynecological tumor diagnosis using antibody chip capture.
Methods: Marker proteins, including cancer antigen 153 (CA153), CA125, and carcinoembryonic
antigen (CEA), were analyzed using antibody chip capture of serum samples. Fifteen agglutinin types
that specifically recognized five common glycans (fucose, sialic acid, mannose, N -
acetylgalactosamine, and N-acetylglucosamine) were used to detect marker protein glycan levels. The
levels of CA153, CA125, and CEA from 49 healthy control samples, 31 breast cancer samples, 24
cervical cancer samples, and 19 ovarian cancer samples were used to measure the glycan levels of
these marker proteins.
Results: In breast cancer samples, CA153 and CA125 were down-regulated (p < 0.01), while
differences in ovarian cancer samples were not statistically significant (p > 0.01). The total accuracy
was 85.1 %, with 96.8 % accuracy for breast cancer, 75 % in cervical cancer, and 78.9 % in ovarian
cancer. Cross-validation analyses showed that breast cancer had 93.5 % accuracy, cervical cancer was
66.7 %, and ovarian cancer was 68.4 %, leading to 78.4 % total accuracy (58/74).
Conclusions: The results indicate that better clinical diagnosis of gynecological tumors can be obtained
by monitoring changes in glycan levels of serum proteins and types of proteoglycan changes.
Keywords
Microarray technology; Proteoglycan; Gynecological tumor; Serum marker; Cancer antigen; Agglutinins
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