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Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

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01-02-2009 | Original Paper

Molecular characterization of the DYX1C1 gene and its application as a cancer biomarker

Authors: Yun-Ji Kim, Jae-Won Huh, Dae-Soo Kim, Min-In Bae, Ja-Rang Lee, Hong-Seok Ha, Kung Ahn, Tae-Oh Kim, Geun-Am Song, Heui-Soo Kim

Published in: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology | Issue 2/2009

Abstract

Purpose

DYX1C1 has three alternatively spliced transcripts. Therefore, we expect that alternative transcripts of DYX1C1 are used as a biomarker to detect specific cancer.

Methods

RT-PCR analysis is conducted in order to detect expression of the DYX1C1 gene and the PCR products were analyzed using the Image J program to compare the expression levels of each transcript.

Results

We found one of the transcripts was directly associated with an HERV-H LTR element that could be translated into protein sequence. Four new alternative transcripts were identified by RT-PCR analysis with various human tissue samples including 10 normal and adjacent tumor tissue sets. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis showed the transcriptional activity of V3 and V2 was higher in tumor than in normal tissue samples, especially in the colorectal tissue samples.

Conclusion

Our results indicated that alternatively spliced transcript variants of the DYX1C1 gene could be used as cancer biomarkers to detect colorectal cancer.

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Title: Molecular characterization of the DYX1C1 gene and its application as a cancer biomarker
Authors: Yun-Ji Kim
Jae-Won Huh
Dae-Soo Kim
Min-In Bae
Ja-Rang Lee
Hong-Seok Ha
Kung Ahn
Tae-Oh Kim
Geun-Am Song
Heui-Soo Kim
Publication date: 01-02-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology / Issue 2/2009
Print ISSN: 0171-5216
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-008-0445-8

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