title: Isolation of a pancreas-specific gene located on human chromosome 14q31: expression analysis in human pancreatic ductal carcinomas.
abstract: We have isolated a novel cDNA (SEL1L) that shows sequence similarities to SEL-1, a gene identified as an extragenic suppressor of the lin-12 hypomorphic mutant from Caenorhabditis elegans (7, 8). SEL1L exhibits a tissue-specific pattern of expression: a single poly(A)+ RNA species of 7.5 kb is abundantly expressed only in the pancreas of healthy individuals, whereas low to undetectable levels are observed in other adult and in some fetal tissues. Somatic hybrid panel and fluorescence in situ hybridization positioned this gene in the q31 band of human chromosome 14. The tissue-specific expression of this gene induced us to study its role in human pancreatic carcinomas. Our analysis revealed that 17% of adenocarcinomas of the pancreas did not express SEL1L to a detectable level; however, no gross genomic alterations were apparent in the few hundred kilobases of the relevant region.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technology, CNR, Segrate Milano, Italy. biunno@itba.mi.cnr.it
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Biunno
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Appierto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cattaneo
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Leone
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Balzano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Socci
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saccone
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Letizia
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Della Valle
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sgaramella
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000235:genetics*; D002883:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009928:Organ Specificity; D010179:Pancreas / Q000502:physiology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D015801:Helminth Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011506:Proteins; C101221:SEL-1 protein, C elegans; C117384:SEL1L protein, human