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1: Br J Cancer. 2002 Aug 12;87(4):423-31.
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Identification of mRNAs differentially-expressed between benign and malignant breast tumour cells.

Liu D, Rudland PS, Sibson DR, Barraclough R.

School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.

Two suppression subtracted cDNA libraries have been constructed, one containing cDNAs to mRNAs present at a higher level in a benign human breast tumour-derived cell line relative to the malignant mammary cell line, MCF-7, and the other containing cDNAs present at a higher level in the MCF-7 cells relative to the benign cells. Randomly-picked cloned DNAs have been sequenced yielding 29 and 128 different cDNAs from the benign and malignant libraries, respectively. Using reverse Northern hybridisation, 76% and 83% of the cDNAs were differentially expressed by greater than two-fold, whilst 14% and 11% of cDNAs in the respective libraries were differentially expressed by more than 15-fold. Amongst these were oestrogen-responsive cDNAs and expressed sequence tags. One such oestrogen-responsive expressed sequence tag, M41, is transcribed from a gene located on chromosome 21q22.3, within an intron of a larger gene. The M41 gene contains oestrogen response elements, one of which is associated with alu repeats. M41 mRNA is expressed at a statistically significantly higher level in human breast cancer specimens than in normal human breast and benign lesions. In carcinomas, its up-regulation is associated with the development of the malignant cell.

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PMID: 12177779 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]