TY - JOUR A1 - Kosnopfel, Corinna A1 - Sinnberg, Tobias A1 - Sauer, Birgit A1 - Niessner, Heike A1 - Muenchow, Alina A1 - Fehrenbacher, Birgit A1 - Schaller, Martin A1 - Mertens, Peter R. A1 - Garbe, Claus A1 - Thakur, Basant Kumar A1 - Schittek, Birgit T1 - Tumour progression stage-dependent secretion of YB-1 stimulates melanoma cell migration and invasion JF - Cancers N2 - Secreted factors play an important role in intercellular communication. Therefore, they are not only indispensable for the regulation of various physiological processes but can also decisively advance the development and progression of tumours. In the context of inflammatory disease, Y-box binding protein 1 (YB-1) is actively secreted and the extracellular protein promotes cell proliferation and migration. In malignant melanoma, intracellular YB-1 expression increases during melanoma progression and represents an unfavourable prognostic marker. Here, we show active secretion of YB-1 from melanoma cells as opposed to benign cells of the skin. Intriguingly, YB-1 secretion correlates with the stage of melanoma progression and depends on a calcium- and ATP-dependent non-classical secretory pathway leading to the occurrence of YB-1 in the extracellular space as a free protein. Along with an elevated YB-1 secretion of melanoma cells in the metastatic growth phase, extracellular YB-1 exerts a stimulating effect on melanoma cell migration, invasion, and tumourigenicity. Collectively, these data suggest that secreted YB-1 plays a functional role in melanoma cell biology, stimulating metastasis, and may serve as a novel biomarker in malignant melanoma that reflects tumour aggressiveness. KW - melanoma KW - secretion KW - Y-box binding protein 1 KW - migration and invasiveness Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-211206 SN - 2072-6694 VL - 12 IS - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huss, André M. A1 - Halbgebauer, Steffen A1 - Öckl, Patrick A1 - Trebst, Corinna A1 - Spreer, Annette A1 - Borisow, Nadja A1 - Harrer, Andrea A1 - Brecht, Isabel A1 - Balint, Bettina A1 - Stich, Oliver A1 - Schlegel, Sabine A1 - Retzlaff, Nele A1 - Winkelmann, Alexander A1 - Roesler, Romy A1 - Lauda, Florian A1 - Yildiz, Özlem A1 - Voß, Elke A1 - Muche, Rainer A1 - Rauer, Sebastian A1 - Bergh, Florian Then A1 - Otto, Markus A1 - Paul, Friedemann A1 - Wildemann, Brigitte A1 - Kraus, Jörg A1 - Ruprecht, Klemens A1 - Stangel, Martin A1 - Buttmann, Mathias A1 - Zettl, Uwe K. A1 - Tumani, Hayrettin T1 - Importance of cerebrospinal fluid analysis in the era of McDonald 2010 criteria: a German-Austrian retrospective multicenter study in patients with a clinically isolated syndrome JF - Journal of Neurology N2 - The majority of patients presenting with a first clinical symptom suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS) do not fulfill the MRI criteria for dissemination in space and time according to the 2010 revision of the McDonald diagnostic criteria for MS and are thus classified as clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). To re-evaluate the utility of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis in the context of the revised McDonald criteria from 2010, we conducted a retrospective multicenter study aimed at determining the prevalence and predictive value of oligoclonal IgG bands (OCBs) in patients with CIS. Patients were recruited from ten specialized MS centers in Germany and Austria. We collected data from 406 patients; at disease onset, 44/406 (11 %) fulfilled the McDonald 2010 criteria for MS. Intrathecal IgG OCBs were detected in 310/362 (86 %) of CIS patients. Those patients were twice as likely to convert to MS according to McDonald 2010 criteria as OCB-negative individuals (hazard ratio = 2.1, p = 0.0014) and in a shorter time period of 25 months (95 % CI 21-34) compared to 47 months in OCB-negative individuals (95 % CI 36-85). In patients without brain lesions at first attack and presence of intrathecal OCBs (30/44), conversion rate to MS was 60 % (18/30), whereas it was only 21 % (3/14) in those without OCBs. Our data confirm that in patients with CIS the risk of conversion to MS substantially increases if OCBs are present at onset. CSF analysis definitely helps to evaluate the prognosis in patients who do not have MS according to the revised McDonald criteria. KW - multiple sklerosis KW - MRI criteria KW - conversion KW - MS KW - CSF KW - biomarker KW - OCB Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-186619 VL - 263 IS - 12 ER -