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Specificity and significance of expression of imprinted gene PEG10 in hepatocellular carcinoma
Ying Chang, Lu-Wei Tao, Xiao-Ping Chen, Xiu-Min Zhou, Yu-Hu Song, Jin Huang, Qiong Zhang, Ju-Sheng Lin
Ying Chang, Lu-Wei Tao, Xiu-Min Zhou, Yu-Hu Song, Jin Huang, Qiong Zhang, Ju-Sheng Lin, Institute of Liver Diseases, the Affiliated Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China
Xiao-Ping Chen, Department of General Surgery, the Affiliated Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China
Supported by: National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 30471983.
Correspondence to: Ju-Sheng Lin, Institute of Liver Diseases, the Affiliated Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China. jslin@tjh.tjmu.edu.cn
Received: March 25, 2005 Revised: April 1, 2005 Accepted: April 8, 2005 Published online: June 28, 2005
AIM: To study the specificity and significance of the expression of imprinted gene PEG10 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and to evaluate the feasibility for PEG10 as a novel molecular target of gene therapy for HCC.
METHODS: The total RNA was extracted from different tumor cell lines (liver cancer HepG2, gastric cancer SGC7901, colorectal cancer Lovo, pancreatic cancer PC3, melanoma A375 and T lymphoma Jurkat cells), normal human fetal liver cell line L02, human HCC (n = 32) and the corresponding cancer-adjacent tissues (n = 32), benign liver tissues (n = 10) and peripheral blood cells (n = 10). Then the expression of PEG10 was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Simultaneously, AFP expression was detected in human HCC and the corresponding cancer-adjacent tissues.
RESULTS: After amplification, the length of PEG10 and AFP fragment was 455 bp and 140 bp respectively. PEG10 was markedly expressed in HepG2 cells, and weakly expressed in SGC7901, PC3, Lovo cells. PEG10 expression was found negative in L02 and other tumor cell lines. The positive rates of PEG10 expression in HCC and the corresponding tissues were 78.1% and 0%, but the ones for AFP were 93.8% and 59.4% respectively. There was no significant difference between PEG10 and AFP expression in HCC tissues (P>0.05), whereas the expression of AFP (19/32) was significantly higher than that of PEG10 in cancer-adjacent tissues (0/32) (c20.01,1 = 17.05, P<0.01). PEG10 wasn't detected in benign liver tissues and normal peripheral blood cells.
CONCLUSION: PEG10 is more specifically expressed in HCC than AFP, which provides evidence for PEG10 as a novel molecular target of gene therapy for HCC.
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