title: Expression of high-mobility group-1 mRNA in human gastrointestinal adenocarcinoma and corresponding non-cancerous mucosa.
abstract: An 1194-nucleotide complementary DNA clone, FM1, encoding a human high-mobility group-1 protein (HMG-1) was isolated from a well-differentiated human gastric-carcinoma cell line complementary DNA library by a differential screening method. FM1 is similar to the published human HMG-1 in mature protein, with only 3 different codons at positions 11, 149, and 190. We analyzed 33 gastric and colorectal adenocarcinomas for expression of the FM1 gene. Northern-blot analysis revealed that all of the cancers expressed FM1 at a higher level than in corresponding non-cancerous mucosa, with 2 transcripts of approximately 1.4 and 2.4 kilobases. The FM1 expression level in the non-cancerous tissues increased with the depth of accompanying cancer invasion. Only 18.2% of well-differentiated cancers showed a higher expression level in corresponding non-cancerous tissues, whereas the expression in corresponding non-cancerous tissues was significantly higher in moderately (60%) and poorly differentiated (83.3%) cancers. In situ hybridization demonstrated the location of FM1 mRNA in well- and poorly differentiated gastric-cancer cells as well as in non-cancerous tissue adjacent to poorly differentiated gastric cancer, but no hybridization was detected in normal epithelial cells adjacent to well-differentiated gastric cancer. These findings may provide new information on HMG-1 mRNA expression in human gastrointestinal cancer and suggest a correlation between FM1 mRNA expression to the differentiation and the stage of human gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Pathology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y Y
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kiyokawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugimura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D002460:Cell Line; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D024243:HMGB1 Protein; D006609:High Mobility Group Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D024243:HMGB1 Protein; D006609:High Mobility Group Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger