Identification of a novel gene, DAM1, amplified at chromosome 1p13.3-21 region in human breast cancer cell lines.
Screening for differentially expressed genes in cancer cell lines by the RNA differential display (DD) technique identified a novel mRNA that encodes a 26-kDa protein and is up-regulated in MCF-7 and BT-20 breast cancer cells. The predicted amino acid sequence showed 38% homology to Caenorhabditis elegans T12A2.7 protein, indicating that this is a possible human homologue for C. elegans T12A2.7 protein. The mRNA, designated DAM1 (DNA amplified in mammary carcinoma), was mapped at the 1p13.3-21 region, which is frequently altered in human breast cancer. By Southern blot analysis, we confirmed that the up-regulation of this novel gene is associated with gene amplification in MCF-7 (10-fold) and BT-20 (5-fold) cells. Our findings suggest that the DAM1 gene is a novel gene up-regulated by amplification in human breast cancer cell lines.
Growth Factor Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. knagasak@gan2.ncc.go.jp
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Nagasaki
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002878:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1 / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005260:Female; D052138:Genes, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
C120624:BCAS2 protein, human; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins