title: Gene transcripts of eleven proteins with specific functions are all detected in human normal cells and tumor cell lines: a possible DNA-->RNA basal constant flow.
abstract: Existance of messenger ribonucleic acids of eleven functionally differentiated proteins in normal human cells and tumor cell lines was investigated using reverse transcription--nested polymerase chain reaction method. Examined gene transcripts were those of progesterone receptor, estrogen receptor, interleukin 2, CD8, parathyroid hormone, cholecystokinin/pancreozymin, glucagon, insulin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, enkephalin and thyroid stimulating hormone. In RT-PCR almost all primers were originally designed and sequences of PCR products were confirmed by the Sanger's method. Investigated cells were normal human peripheral mononuclear cells and their subsets, lymphokine-activated killer cells, gastric mucosal cells, sperm and fifteen established tumor cell lines. All of the examined mRNAs were detected in all of the above cell groups. Therefore, cells of independent tissues or tumors share same kinds of mRNA such as steroid hormone receptors, cytokine, lymphocyte surface molecule and parathyroid, digestive and cerebral hormones. These findings strongly suggest that every cell can express every mRNA. Beneath the cell differentiation there may exist a DNA-->RNA basal constant flow, the arrow of time captured in a cell.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Osaka University Medical School.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kimoto
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002460:Cell Line; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D006728:Hormones / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis*; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D006728:Hormones; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D004247:DNA