title: Cloning of a human hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor transcription variant from a gastric cancer cell line HSC-39.
abstract: A new transcription variant of hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) was cloned from human gastric cancer cell line HSC-39. Northern blot analysis of eight human gastric cancer cell lines (TMK-1, MKN-1, MKN-7, MKN-28, MKN-45, MKN-74, KATO-III and HSC-39) demonstrated that HSC-39 cells expressed a 1.3 kb abnormal HGF/SF transcript. Screening of 1 x 10(6) colonies of cDNA library from HSC-39 constructed in pAP3neo mammalian expression vector selected four positive clones containing HGF/SF transcript. Among them, two contained a 1.3 kbp insert detecting the identical transcript to that obtained with HGF/SF probe by Northern blotting. Deoxynucleotide sequencing of the 1.3 kbp insert revealed that it was composed of a part of HGF/SF cDNA from exon 14 to exon 18, corresponding to the whole sequence of HGF/SF light chain, with 5' 75 nucleotides unrelated to any sequence involved in HGF/SF.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Pathology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokozaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tahara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oue
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tahara
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000032:analysis; D015723:Gene Library; D014644:Genetic Variation; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D017228:Hepatocyte Growth Factor