title: Expression of Twist gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma cell strains of different metastatic potential.
abstract: In order to investigate the role of Twist gene in the metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), total RNA was respectively extracted from three HCC cell strains with different metastatic potentials, HepG2, MHCC-97L and MHCC-97H. The first strand cDNA was synthesized by reverse transcription, which was then used as template to perform fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction (FQ-PCR). The quantity of Twist gene expression was normalized by that of the housekeeping gene, GAPDH for each sample. ANOVA was used to estimate the relationship between Twist gene and metastasis potential of HCC. The results showed that the normalized initial cDNA concentrations of Twist gene in HepG2, MHCC-97L and MHCC-97H were (9.45+/-0.25)x10(-4), (1.82+/-0.41)x10(-3), (3.06+/-0.62)x10(-3), respectively. FQ-PCR revealed significant differences in the expression level of Twist among HCC cell strains with different metastatic potentials. It was concluded that high expression level of Twist was closely associated with more aggressive behaviors of HCC. Twist provides a novel indicator for HCC metastasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. redqian@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Hubo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: De'an
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tian
mesh_terms: D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000378:metabolism*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012313:RNA / Q000378:metabolism; D051879:Twist-Related Protein 1 / Q000096:biosynthesis*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C103173:TWIST1 protein, human; D051879:Twist-Related Protein 1; D012313:RNA