title: Identification of metastasis-associated genes by transcriptional profiling of metastatic versus non-metastatic colon cancer cell lines.
abstract: In order to define genes which mediate liver tropism of colon cancer metastasis we have compared the transcriptional profile of 5600 full-length genes using the Affymetrix HuGene FL array technology of the non-metastatic colon cancer cell lines KM12C and the two metastatic cell lines, KM12SM and KM12L4A, which are derived from KM12C. We present data on genes which are up- and downregulated in the metastatic cell line and those which are selectively upregulated in one of the metastatic cell lines. We have sub-grouped the deregulated genes into different categories, such as immune response, modulation of transcription, enzymes, cell cycle/apoptosis, interferon- and tumor necrosis factor-regulated genes, tumor antigens and transmembrane receptors, intracellular signaling, cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix associated proteins, 'others' and genes of unknown function.
authors.affiliation: Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Pharma Research, Penzberg, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Lange
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burtscher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jarsch
authors.forename: U H
authors.initials: UH
authors.lastname: Weidle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D006801:Humans; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000556:secondary*; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D015854:Up-Regulation