title: Mutational analysis of HRAS and KRAS genes in oral carcinoma cell lines.
abstract: RAS overexpression and its active mutations are involved in malignant tumorigenesis. However, the mutation rates in oral carcinoma cells differ between populations. In the present study, genomic DNA of oral carcinoma cells (HOC313, TSU, HSC2, HSC3, KOSC2, KOSC3, SCCKN, OSC19, Ca9.22, and Ho1u1 cells) or normal gingival fibroblasts (GF12 cells) derived from a Japanese population were amplified by polymerase chain reaction using primer sets, spanning HRAS and KRAS exons. Nucleotide substitutions were analyzed by single strand conformation polymorphism. In contrast to no substitutions in KRAS, nine different substitutions were detected in HRAS. Of the nine, six substitutions were located at intron 1 (HSC2 and HSC3 cells) or intron 2 (HSC3, SCCKN and Ca9.22 cells), and one each of exon 1 (all cells), exon 2 (HOC313, TSU, HSC2 and HSC3 cells) and the 5' upstream region (all cells). Substitutions at exons 1 and 2 did not affect the amino acid sequence; the exon 1 substitution was positioned at the 5' untranslated region, which may be a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sequence because all the cells were isolated from a Japanese population, and the mutations at exon 2 was a silent mutation. A substitution at the 5' upstream region was an SNP. These data demonstrate that SNPs and point mutations observed in HRAS do not change the amino acid sequence, and suggest that the mutations affecting the amino acid sequence may be a rare event in oral carcinomas of the Japanese population.
authors: Department of Biochemistry, The Nippon Dental University, School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors: Sachiko
authors: S
authors: Maemoto
authors: Megumi
authors: M
authors: Yumoto
authors: Masato
authors: M
authors: Ibata
authors: Sho
authors: S
authors: Torizuka
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authors: Ozawa
authors: Shunsuke
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authors: Tatsumi
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authors: M
authors: Hashido
authors: Masako
authors: M
authors: Morikawa
authors: Genta
authors: G
authors: Maeda
authors: Kazushi
authors: K
authors: Imai
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