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. 2019 Jan 29;10(4):949–956. doi: 10.7150/jca.27224

CHFR Promoter Hypermethylation Is Associated with Gastric Cancer and Plays a Protective Role in Gastric Cancer Process

Dongjun Dai 1,#, Bingluo Zhou 2,#, Wenxia Xu 2, Hongchuan Jin 2, Xian Wang 1,✉
PMCID: PMC6400794  PMID: 30854101

Abstract

Background: Chromosomally unstable tumors account for 50% of gastric cancer. CHFR plays a role in controlling chromosomal instability and its inactivation will eventually lead to tumorigenesis. In addition to genetic deletion, DNA methylation could silence the expression of many cancer-related genes including CHFR. Its methylation was found to be associated with the initiation and progression of gastric cancer.

Methods: We performed a meta-analysis involving methylation analyses of CHFR promoter in gastric cancer. Nineteen studies with 1,249 tumor tissues and 745 normal tissues had been included in current study.

Results: We found that CHFR methylation was significantly higher in gastric cancer (studies numbers = 15, cases/controls = 862/745, odds ratio (OR) = 7.46, 95% confidence index (95% CI) = 4.99-11.14). Methylation array data was also obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and The Cancer Genome Atlas network (TCGA). There were 7 out of 13 CHFR methylation probes target to the same CpG island region (hg19, 131973620-131975130) showed the CHFR methylation was higher in gastric cancers than normal controls. Eight probes showed CHFR promoter hypermethylation was associated with longer overall survival of gastric cancer patients (Hazard Ratio < 1).

Conclusions: The CHFR promoter hypermethylation was associated with gastric cancer and played a protective role in gastric cancer process. Its methylation could be a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer.

Keywords: CHFR, gastric cancer, methylation, diagnosis biomarker

Introduction

Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide 1. Chromosomally unstable tumors account for 50% of gastric cancer based on The Cancer Genome Atlas network (TCGA) molecular classification 2. Chromosomal instability refers to the rate that chromosomes or large portions of chromosomes are changed 3.

CHFR (checkpoint with forkhead associated and ring finger domains) gene locates at chromosome 12q24.33. It encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase to promote the ubiquitination-dependent degradation of mitosis-related oncoproteins such as Kiff22 4, PLK1 5 and Aurora A 6. By doing so, it functions as an early mitotic checkpoint that delays the entry from prophase into metaphase in response to mitotic stresses. Cancer cell lines with function loss of CHFR could bypass mitotic arrest induced by mitotic stresses 7. CHFR expression is reduced in 20-50% of primary tumors and tumor cell lines 6.

Several studies suggested that CHFR gene expression is frequently silenced by promoter hypermethylation in gastric cancer 8-12. Additionally, CHFR promoter methylation improved the gastric cancer sensitivity to microtubule inhibitors such as docetaxel and paclitaxel 13, 14. However, the samples of these studies were too small to confirm solid results. Meta-analysis is a classical statistical method that can pool data from different studies and enhance the power to draw a more comprehensive conclusion than a single study 15. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to explore the relevance of CHFR promoter methylation to gastric cancer. Moreover, public data from TCGA and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database were also collected to further validate the influence of CHFR methylation on the prognosis of gastric cancer patients.

Methods

Data collection

We collected studies from online index database PubMed, PubMed Centra (PMC), Embase, and Chinese database (WeiPu, WanFang and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure) without time and language limitation. The search keywords for PubMed were “((((((((((((checkpoint with forkhead and ring finger domains)) OR CHFR) OR RNF116) OR RNF196)) AND ((Gastric Cancers OR (Cancer of the Stomach) OR (Gastric Cancer) OR (Stomach Cancers) OR (Cancer of Stomach) OR (Gastric Neoplasm) OR (Gastric Neoplasms) OR (Stomach Neoplasm))))) AND methylation [tiab])) NOT (((animals [mh] NOT humans [mh]))))) NOT ("review" [Publication Type])”. Similar search keywords were applied for other database. The search was updated before July, 2018. We would include studies met the follow items: (1) it is an original human clinical trial on association between CHFR promoter methylation and gastric cancer; (2) the study should involve sufficient data to calculate the odds ratios (OR) and 95%confidence index (95% CI) between CHFR methylation and gastric cancer, and if not, it should have data of CHFR methylation of relevant clinical characteristics; (3) the controls should be adjacent tissue from same patient, or benign lesion/normal gastric tissues from health population. Two reviewers have independently processed the study selection (DD and BZ), and disagreements of decisions were solved by discussion and subsequent consensus. If the same population was used in different studies, the most recent, largest, or best-quality one would be included.

Data extraction

The data extraction from articles included the name of first author, year of publication, the region where the samples were from, numbers of cases and controls, methods of detecting methylation status, sample types, tumor stages, control type and study type. The extraction was performed by two independent reviewers (DD and BZ).

Data analyses of meta-analysis

All the statistical analyses were performed by Stata software 11.016. The OR and 95% CI were calculated. Cochran's Q statistic and I² test 17 were used to calculate statistical heterogeneity. Since random and fix model present similar results when heterogeneity is low, the random effect model was used in current meta-analyses 18. Funnel plots were drawn to observe the potential publication bias. Begg and Egger analyses were also analyzed 19, 20. A p value lower than 0.05 was considered significant.

Validation analysis by TCGA and GEO database

We further collected data from public functional genomics data repository to validate the association between CHFR methylation and gastric cancer of current meta-analysis. A case-control designed and Infinium HumanMethylation27 BeadChip (HM27K) technical based study was selected from GEO database (GSE30601) 21, which involved 203 gastric tumors and 94 matched non-malignant gastric samples from Singapore. Moreover, prognostic analysis of CHFR was also performed in MethSurv 22, which contained TCGA stomach adenocarcinoma cohort that involved 395 patients whose cancer methylome status was tested by Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (HM450K). The follow-up time of this cohort was 449 days and 155 deaths were found after follow-up. The beta value of every CpG site was calculated as M/(M + U + 100), where M and U were methylated and unmethylated intensities, respectively. Different methylation status was defined by certain beta-value level (fully unmethylated, 0 < beta-value <= 0.2; partially methylated, 0.2 < beta-value < 0.6; fully methylated, 0.6 <= beta-value <= 1).

Results

Data collection

As in Figure 1, we found 28 studies from PubMed, 58 studies from PMC, 28 studies from Embase and 40 studies from Chinese database. By reading titles and abstracts, and removing the duplicate studies, 48 full-text articles were selected for further screening. We next excluded 9 reviews, 5 cell line and animal based studies, 10 studies with duplicate population and 5 studies with no sufficient data for calculating. Finally, 19 studies 8-12, 14, 23-35 with 1,249 tumor tissues and 745 normal tissues were involved in our meta-analysis. Among them, there were 10 studies from Japan 11, 12, 25, 28-30, 32, 33, 36, 37, 7 studies from China 8-10, 14, 23, 24, 26 and 2 studies from Korea 27, 31. There were 3 prospective studies 14, 23, 28 and 16 retrospective 8-12, 24-27, 29-33, 36, 37 studies.

Figure 1.

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Flowchart of selection process in the meta-analyses

The association between CHFR methylation and gastric cancer

We next explored the association between CHFR methylation and gastric cancer. The results showed that the CHFR methylation was significantly higher in gastric cancer than normal tissues (studies numbers = 15, cases/controls = 862/745, OR = 7.46, 95% CI = 4.99-11.14, I² = 32.20%, Table 2, Figure 2). Since the involved studies were mainly performed in China, Japan and Korea, a further subgroup population based analysis was conducted. The results showed CHFR methylation was significantly higher in gastric cancers in all of the three regions (China: studies numbers = 5, cases/controls = 394/323, OR = 4.96, 95% CI = 3.16-7.80, I² = 14.00%; Japan: studies numbers = 8, cases/controls = 400/383, OR = 10.12, 95% CI = 5.30-19.34, I² = 38.40%; Korea: Studies numbers = 2, cases/controls = 68/39, OR = 15.91, 95% CI = 3.52-71.81, I² = 0.00%, Table 2, Figure 2). Moreover, we analyzed the association between CHFR methylation and different clinical features of gastric cancer patients that comprised gender (males vs. females), age (>= 60 vs. < 60 years), tumor histology (intestinal type vs. diffused and mixed type), differentiation level (high vs. low/intermediate), tumor size (>= 5cm vs. < 5cm), degree of T stage (T3-4 vs. T1-2), tumor stage (III+IV vs. I+II), lymph node metastasis (positive vs. negative), distant metastasis (positive vs. negative) and P53 statue (mutation vs. wild). We found the CHFR methylation level was significant associated with the tumor size of gastric cancer (studies numbers = 6, cases/controls = 236/186, OR = 1.71, 95% CI = 1.11-2.65, I² = 16.00%, Table 2). No significant results were found in other analyses (Table 2).

Table 2.

Meta-analyses of CHFR methylation with gastric cancer

Group Studies number Cases/Controls OR (95% CI) I² (%) p value of I² Begg Egger
Studies with all races (Cancer tissues vs. Normal tissues) 15 862/745 7.46 (4.99, 11.14) 32.20 0.111 0.023 < 0.001
China group (Cancer tissues vs. Normal tissues) 5 394/323 4.96 (3.16, 7.80) 14.00 0.325 0.462 0.099
Japan group (Cancer tissues vs. Normal tissues) 8 400/383 10.12 (5.30, 19.34) 38.40 0.123 0.108 0.001
Korea group (Cancer tissues vs. Normal tissues) 2 68/39 15.91 (3.52, 71.81) 0.00 0.633 NA NA
Gender (Males vs. Females) 13 518/307 0.81 (0.58, 1.12) 0.00 0.565 0.200 0.257
Age (>=60 years vs. <60 years) 5 196/233 0.73 (0.49, 1.09) 0.00 0.512 0.462 0.492
Tumor histology (Intestinal type vs. Diffused and mixed type) 5 166/198 1.26 (0.79, 2.03) 9.20 0.354 0.462 0.554
Differentiation (Well and moderately differentiated vs. Poorly differentiated ) 6 233/214 0.99 (0.47, 2.11) 73.00 0.002 0.707 0.744
Tumor size (>=5cm vs. <5cm) 6 236/186 1.71 (1.11, 2.65) 16.00 0.311 0.260 0.141
Tumor invasion (T3-4 vs. T1-2) 8 315/158 0.84 (0.55, 1.27) 0.00 0.658 0.536 0.979
Tumor stage (III/IV vs. I/II) 11 492/235 1.03 (0.74, 1.43) 0.00 0.674 0.350 0.548
Lymph node metastasis (N2/N3/N4 vs. N0/N1) 8 319/190 1.08 (0.73, 1.61) 0.00 0.601 0.902 0.617
Distant metastasis (M1 vs. MO) 4 44/236 1.32 (0.64, 2.73) 0.00 0.510 0.734 0.847
P53 (Mutant vs. Wild) 2 21/76 0.30 (0.07, 1.22) 28.70 0.236 1.000 NA
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OR: odds ratio; 95% CI, 95%confidence index; NA: not available.

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Forest plots of CHFR methylation with gastric cancer. The large diamond at the bottle of the table represents the pooled odds ratio of all studies. The width of the diamond represents with 95% CI.

Publications bias

The funnel plot presented asymmetry shape of all involved studies, and the Egger test showed a significant result for funnel plot asymmetry, indicating potential publication bias in current meta-analysis. Therefore, a nonparametric trim was performed to assess the influence of these asymmetry studies. Six missing studies were filled in new pooled funnel plots, and the new plots presented symmetrical shape (Figure 3) meanwhile the CHFR methylation still significantly associated with gastric cancer (OR = 5.31, 95% CI = 3.45-8.14), suggesting that our results were solid.

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Funnel plots of CHFR methylation with gastric cancer. A, Funnel plots of association between CHFR promoter methylation and gastric cancer in tissues before nonparametric trim; B, Funnel plots of association between CHFR promoter methylation and gastric cancer in tissues after nonparametric trim or, odds ratio; SE, standard error; One cycle represents one individual study.

Data analyses from GEO and TCGA database

As shown in Table 3, after performing differential analyses between gastric cancers and matched gastric non-malignant samples from GSE30601, thirteen statistically significant probes were selected. Among them, seven strongly associated probes (cg00338702, cg04044684, cg17387870, cg19027571, cg20535781, cg23653008, cg27040423) (p < 0.001) showed the CHFR methylation was higher in cancers than normal tissue. These 7 probes were from the same CpG island region (hg19, 131973620-131975130). The mean beta-value difference between groups was all over 0.1 in these 7 probes (Table 3, Figure S1). On the other side, other probes presented limited mean beta-value difference (one was 0.1036 while the others were less than 0.034, Table 3, Figure S2). Moreover, the mean beta-value was extremely high and presented as fully methylated status in both groups when used the other 6 probes (Table 3, Figure S2), which might not reflect the promoter methylation status of CHFR. Hence, the overall methylation statue of the 7 sites in CpG island region 131973620-131975130 might present the association between CHFR promoter methylation and gastric cancer. Interestingly, prognostic analysis showed that CHFR promoter hypermethylation was associated with longer overall survival in gastric cancer patients. Eight probes were found to be significantly predicting a better prognosis of gastric cancer patients. Previous study found CHFR promoter methylation could predict the sensitivity of gastric cancers to microtubule inhibitors 33, which might explain why CHFR promoter hypermethylation played a protective role in gastric cancer.

Table 3.

Significantly differential CHFR methylation probes from GEO database

ID adj.P.Val Mean ± SEM of cancers Mean ± SEM of normal tissues Difference between means RANGE_START RANGE_END GB_ACC
cg00338702 <0.001 0.2998 ± 0.01393 0.1611 ± 0.008613 -0.1387 ± 0.02131 131973620 131975130 NM_018223.1
cg04044684 <0.001 0.3134 ± 0.01461 0.1214 ± 0.008635 -0.1919 ± 0.02228 131973620 131975130 NT_024477.13
cg17387870 <0.001 0.4747 ± 0.01233 0.3712 ± 0.009551 -0.1036 ± 0.01926 131973620 131975130 NM_018223.1
cg19027571 <0.001 0.2856 ± 0.01635 0.1291 ± 0.008534 -0.1565 ± 0.02474 131973620 131975130 NT_024477.13
cg20535781 <0.001 0.4656 ± 0.008622 0.3156 ± 0.007398 -0.1501 ± 0.01364 131973620 131975130 NT_024477.13
cg23653008 <0.001 0.1908 ± 0.01391 0.04342 ± 0.006138 -0.1474 ± 0.02088 131973620 131975130 NT_024477.13
cg27040423 <0.001 0.2112 ± 0.01223 0.09632 ± 0.005376 -0.1148 ± 0.01835 131973620 131975130 NM_018223.1
cg17003970 <0.001 0.7878 ± 0.01172 0.8941 ± 0.002406 0.1063 ± 0.01731 131945626 131946355 NT_024477.13
cg17524886 <0.001 0.8925 ± 0.004785 0.9249 ± 0.002214 0.03244 ± 0.007198 131934293 131934917 NT_024477.13
cg17904068 0.012 0.9083 ± 0.003359 0.8936 ± 0.003251 -0.01467 ± 0.005411 131930864 131931625 NT_024477.13
cg20066677 0.037 0.8355 ± 0.004471 0.8513 ± 0.003603 0.01576 ± 0.007017 131934293 131934917 NT_024477.13
cg21432513 0.005 0.8854 ± 0.007080 0.9169 ± 0.001714 0.03145 ± 0.01048 131945626 131946355 NT_024477.13
cg22381955 <0.001 0.9643 ± 0.002186 0.9766 ± 0.0008457 0.01227 ± 0.003267 131939857 131940762 NT_024477.13
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SEM, standard error of the mean; RANGE_START POSITION. Chromosomal start position of oligo relative to chromosome accession version; RANGE_END Chromosomal end position of oligo relative to chromosome accession version; GB_ACC, GenBank accession; the probes from the CpG island region 131973620-131975130 were bolded.

Discussion

CHFR is a key player in controlling chromosomal integrity. Compared with other mitotic checkpoint genes, CHFR is more frequently inactivated in cancers 7. CHFR inactivation in cancers might be a result of promoter CpG island methylation meanwhile CHFR hypermethylation was found in a series of cancers 38. Expression of CHFR mRNA was downregulated in 53% gastric cancers, and 16% of this 53% were found to be caused by DNA methylation 39. Studies found that CHFR could play multiple roles in regulating growth rate, cellular invasion, motility, and genomic stability in cancer cells 40, 41. The current study found CHFR promoter hypermethylation was associated with gastric cancer in eastern Asian countries that included China, Japan, and Korea. We also found CHFR promoter hypermethylation was associated with larger tumor size. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive meta-analysis of CHFR methylation and gastric cancer.

The association between CHFR inactivation and cancer prognosis were widely studied. The immunohistochemistry showed that diminished expression of CHFR protein was associated with poor prognosis of smoking-related squamous cell carcinoma of the lung 42. Hypermethylation of CHFR was found to be a predictor for worse outcomes in lung cancer 43, colorectal cancer 44. Interestingly, on the other side, CHFR inactivation caused by methylation could also predict the sensitivity to microtubule inhibitors (such as docetaxel and paclitaxel) in various cancers 29, 33, 45-48 including gastric cancer 29, 33. CHFR inactivation that caused the fast entry from prophase into metaphase might be a reason for the sensitivity to microtubule inhibitors 38. Docetaxel and paclitaxel are included in first and second line treatment of gastric cancer according to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Our results showed that CHFR methylation played a protective role in gastric cancer. A study 14 found that when treated with docetaxel, overall survival of gastric cancer patients was longer in the CHFR methylated group than in the CHFR unmethylated group, while in the groups treated with oxaliplatin, there was no significant difference in overall survival between the CHFR methylated group and the unmethylated group. We hypothesized that the protective role of CHFR methylation in gastric cancer might be a result of alternation of microtubule inhibitors sensitivity. The 8 methylation probes we found in current studies might be good markers for the prognosis of gastric cancer.

There are some limitations in current studies. First, the studies involved in current meta-analysis were mostly from eastern Asia, and the GEO data was also from Singapore, whose population are mostly Chinese, we expect to see more results from other regions. Second, the samples we collected were tissues, which were hard to obtain and might limit the clinical use. Studies from serum or gastric juice are needed for further study. Third, different methylation test methods were involved in current meta-analysis, which might cause systemic bias, however, no significant heterogeneity was found in current meta-analysis. Finally, more prognostic studies are needed for further analysis.

In conclusion, we found CHFR promoter hypermethylation was associated with gastric cancer and played a protective role in gastric cancer process.

Supplementary Material

Supplementary figures.

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Table 1.

Characteristics of the involved in current meta-analyses

Author/Year Regions Cases/Controls Methods Samples Tumor stages Control type Study type Reference
Li Y/2015 China 102/0 MSP Tissues I-IV NA Prospective 14
Guo He/2014 China 70/0 MSP Tissues I-IV NA Retrospective 8
Wang M/2014 China 117/46 MethyLight Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Prospective 23
Hiraki M/2011 Japan 127/20 q-MSP Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Retrospective 36
Hu S/2010 China 70/70 MSP Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 24
Hu S/2011 China 123/123 MSP Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 9
Cheng Z/2010 China 64/64 MSP and COBRA Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 10
Hiraki M/2010 Japan 49/49 q-MSP Tissues I-IV Adjacent gastric mucosa and adjacent regional LN Retrospective 25
Oki E/2009 Japan 59/59 MSP Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 11
Gao Y/2008 China 20/20 MSP Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 26
Kang G/2008 Korea 25/25 MSP Tissues NA chronic gastritis tissues from other patients Retrospective 27
Mitsuno M/2007 Japan 56/0 MSP Tissues I-IV NA Prospective 28
Morioka Y/2006 Japan 53/53 MSP Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 12
Koga Y/2006 Japan 46/46 MSP Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Retrospective 29
Yoshida K/2006 Japan 41/41 COBRA Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Retrospective 37
Homma N/2004 Japan 52/0 MSP Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Retrospective 30
Honda T/2004 Japan 71/71 MSP Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Retrospective 32
Kang H/2004 Korea 43/14 COBRA Tissues I-IV Adjacent tissue Retrospective 31
Satoh A/2003 Japan 61/44 COBRA Tissues NA Adjacent tissue Retrospective 33
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MSP: methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction; COBRA: Combined Bisulfite Restriction Analysis; NA: not available.

Table 4.

CHFR played a protective roles in gastric cancer prognosis

Name HR (95% CI) p value CHR MAPINFO UCSC_RefGene_Group Relation_to_UCSC_CpG_Island
cg00470794 0.631 (0.416, 0.959) 0.031 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg02667335 0.660 (0.437, 0.997) 0.048 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg04044684 0.644 (0.466, 0.891) 0.0079 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg07951978 0.607 (0.397, 0.927) 0.021 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg15063355 0.622 (0.407, 0.950) 0.028 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg18533833 0.657 (0.433, 0.998) 0.049 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg26832509 0.644 (0.424, 0.978) 0.039 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
cg27382164 0.587 (0.384, 0.897) 0.014 12 1.33E+08 TSS1500 Island
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HR, hazard ratio; 95% CI, 95%confidence index; CICHR, chromosome number of the site; MAPINFO, position of the site in the genome.

Acknowledgments

This grant was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81372178, 81502386, 81772944) and Zhejiang Provincial Program for High-level Innovative Healthcare talents.

Abbreviations

CHFR

checkpoint with forkhead associated and ring finger domains

TCGA

Cancer Genome Atlas network

GEO

Gene Expression Omnibus

PMC

PubMed Centra

OR

odds ratio

95% CI

95% confidence index

HR

hazard ratio

HM27K

Infinium HumanMethylation27 BeadChip

HM450K

Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip

NCCN

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

MSP

methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction

COBRA

Combined Bisulfite Restriction Analysis

NA

not available

SEM

standard error of the mean

GB_ACC

GenBank accession

CICHR

chromosome number of the site

MAPINFO

position of the site in the genome.

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