Klotho _ LRP-6 _ Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Gastric cancer is the fifth most common malignancy in the world after cancers of the lung, breast, colorectum, and prostate. Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death and is responsible for 723,000 deaths yearly. Gastric carcinoma (GC) is a multifactorial disease which is difficult to diagnose in early-stage because of a time lag between the onset of growth and the appearance of clinical presentation. So, its prognosis is poor as evidenced by the 5-year survival rate. Klotho is anti-aging gene encoding a protein with multiple pleiotropic effect. Cancer and ageing share comparable principles. Klotho gene has been described as a tumor suppressor gene in numerous solid tumors and hematological malignancies. Klotho expression has been shown to be significantly down-regulated in malignant tissue compared to adjacent non-malignant tissue with good prognosis in cancers with high Klotho expression, including colorectal, pancreatic, gastric, esophageal, breast, hepatocellular, ovarian, and renal carcinomas. In contrast, a recent study documented that Klotho negative invasive duct carcinoma group exhibited good prognosis than the Klotho positive group regarding the disease- free survival after the surgical resection in breast cancer patient. Lipoprotein receptor- related protein 6 (LRP6) is a type I single transmembrane protein which is a member of the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) gene family of receptors that is highly conserved among species. In 2000, LRP6 was identified as a co-receptor for Wnt and Frizzled (FZD) to transduce Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Dysregulation of LRP6 is involved in cancer. LRP6 is highly expressed in several cancer cell lines and overexpression of LRP6 promotes cancer cell proliferation. LRP6 expression is frequently upregulated in breast cancer tissue, and respective overexpression or knockdown of LRP6 induces or inhibits breast tumorigenesis. LRP6 is highly expressed in tumors of liver cancer patients, and overexpressio