text: Bcl-2 phosphorylation has pathological significance in human breast cancer.
  The anti-apoptotic molecule, Bcl-2, is well known to play an important role in the chemoresistance of breast cancer. We have previously demonstrated that phosphorylation of Fas-associated death domain-containing protein (FADD) at 194 serine through c-jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) activation sensitizes breast cancer cells to chemotherapy through accelerating cell cycle arrest at G2/M, and that Bcl-2 phosphorylation downstream of JNK/FADD plays an important role in cell growth suppression by paclitaxel. In this study, the clinicopathological association of phosphorylated Bcl-2 (P-Bcl-2) with estrogen, progesterone, c-erbB-2 receptors, p53 expressions and phosphorylated FADD/JNK (P-FADD/JNK) was analyzed immunohistochemically using 107 human breast cancer specimens. Expression of P-Bcl-2 was found to significantly correlate with lymphatic invasion, lymph node metastasis, but not histological differentiation, tumor grade or vascular and fatty invasion. The positivity of P-Bcl-2 was also significantly correlated to that of P-FADD/JNK. Thus, P-Bcl-2 as well as the P-FADD/JNK parameter might be useful markers for cancer progression, independent of the hormone receptor status, in human breast cancers.
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entities.text: JNK Fas-associated death domain-containing protein FADD c-jun NH2-terminal kinase JNK Bcl-2 Bcl-2 JNK FADD phosphorylated Bcl-2 serine P-Bcl-2 estrogen, progesterone, c-erbB-2 receptors p53 phosphorylated FADD JNK P-FADD JNK P-Bcl-2 P-Bcl-2 Bcl-2 NH2 paclitaxel estrogen progesterone P-FADD JNK P-Bcl-2 P-FADD