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- Title
Receptor protein tyrosine kinase EphB4 is up-regulated in colon cancer.
- Authors
Stephenson, Sally-Anne; Slomka, Stefan; Douglas, Evelyn L.; Hewett, Peter J.; Hardingham, Jennifer E.
- Abstract
Background: We have used commercially available cDNA arrays to identify EphB4 as a gene that is up-regulated in colon cancer tissue when compared with matched normal tissue from the same patient. Results: Quantitative RT-PCR analysis of the expression of the EphB4 gene has shown that its expression is increased in 82% of tumour samples when compared with the matched normal tissue from the same patient. Using immunohistochemistry and Western analysis techniques with an EphB4-specific antibody, we also show that this receptor is expressed in the epithelial cells of the tumour tissue and either not at all, or in only low levels, in the normal tissue. Conclusion: The results presented here supports the emerging idea that Eph receptors play a role in tumour formation and suggests that further elucidation of this signalling pathway may identify useful targets for cancer treatment therapies.
- Subjects
PROTEIN-tyrosine kinases; COLON cancer; TUMORS; CANCER treatment; EPITHELIAL cells
- Publication
BMC Molecular Biology, 2001, Vol 2, p15
- ISSN
1471-2199
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2199-2-15