title: Differential screening of a human pancreatic adenocarcinoma lambda gt11 expression library has identified increased transcription of elongation factor EF-1 alpha in tumour cells.
abstract: A human pancreatic adenocarcinoma lambda gt11 expression library was differentially screened with mRNA derived from normal and cancerous pancreatic tissues. Five clones preferentially hybridized with pancreatic adenocarcinoma mRNA. cDNA inserts from 4 of these clones were amplified by PCR, labelled with alpha 32P and used in Northern blot analysis against mRNA prepared from a variety of tumour and normal tissues. lambda GER-4 identified a pancreas-associated mRNA (greater than 10 kb) with no homology with known sequences at either the nucleic or amino-acid level. lambda GER-2 identified a 1.7-kb mRNA transcript that was over-expressed in mRNA prepared from pancreas, colon, breast, lung and gastric tumours relative to normal tissues. Sequence analysis and restriction-enzyme mapping showed that this clone was completely homologous with the active form of human elongation factor EF-1 alpha. This high level of EF-1 alpha-mRNA expression in tumour tissues lends support to the increasing evidence that EF-1 alpha is an important regulator of the cell cycle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Flomen
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Tizard
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D004247:DNA