Alterations in gene expression of proprotein convertases in human lung cancer have a limited number of scenarios.

Autor: Ilya V Demidyuk, Andrey V Shubin, Eugene V Gasanov, Alexander M Kurinov, Vladimir V Demkin, Tatyana V Vinogradova, Marina V Zinovyeva, Alexander V Sass, Irina B Zborovskaya, Sergey V Kostrov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 2, p e55752 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055752
Popis: Proprotein convertases (PCs) is a protein family which includes nine highly specific subtilisin-like serine endopeptidases in mammals. The system of PCs is involved in carcinogenesis and levels of PC mRNAs alter in cancer, which suggests expression status of PCs as a possible marker for cancer typing and prognosis. The goal of this work was to assess the information value of expression profiling of PC genes. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used for the first time to analyze mRNA levels of all PC genes as well as matrix metalloproteinase genes MMP2 and MMP14, which are substrates of PCs, in 30 matched pairs of samples of human lung cancer tumor and adjacent tissues without pathology. Significant changes in the expression of PCs have been revealed in tumor tissues: increased FURIN mRNA level (p
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