Isolation of up- and down-regulated cDNAs associated with hepatocellular carcinoma by a subtraction-enhanced display technique

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Abstract

Identification of gene products exclusively or abundantly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in normal liver may yield novel tumor markers. We have isolated 36 up- and down-regulated cDNAs from diethylnitrosamine-induced rat hepatocellular carcinoma and normal liver tissue by using the subtraction-enhanced display technique. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the majority of 20 subtraction-enriched cDNA fragments were well-characterized oncogenes and tumor-associated genes, like c-myc, alpha-prothymosin, p21, glutathione-S transferase (G-ST) and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP). As demonstrated by Northern blot detection, all of them were preferentially expressed either in HCC or in normal liver (2- to 7-fold). As paradigm, G-ST and AGP were shown to be exclusively overexpressed in tumor nodules by in situ hybridization. In addition, 14 of the remaining 16 novel genes were analysed on Northern blot, 10 of which were differentially expressed in HCC
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)169-175
JournalBiochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Basis of Disease
Volume1315
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1996

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