title: Serological protein profiling of neuroblastoma by ProteinChip SELDI-TOF technology.
abstract: Serological proteins of neuroblastoma were profiled and analyzed by ProteinChip-SELDI-TOF MS technology with five types of protein chips. By comparing with normal control, a number of protein or polypeptide signals were found significantly and consistently different in their intensities (expression levels) in tumor sera. Interestingly, nine polypeptide peaks in these proteomic features can be simultaneously detected with consistent variations by more than one type of protein chips. None of the expression differences of these nine polypeptides was found in similar comparisons between healthy controls and hepatomas. Preliminary protein identification showed hints for that some of these proteomic alterations may be closely related to the tumorigenesis of neuroblastoma. These results demonstrated the potential of serological biomarker identification for neuroblastoma by ProteinChip-SELDI technology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. qyhe@hku.hk
authors.forename: Qing-Yu
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Paul K H
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Tam
authors.forename: Jen-Fu
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Chiu
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000737:chemistry*; D040081:Protein Array Analysis; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins