Characterization of reduced expression of glycine N-methyltransferase in cancerous hepatic tissues using two newly developed monoclonal antibodies

Hsiao Han Liu, Kuan Hsuan Chen, Yi Ping Shih, Wing Yiu Lui, Fen Hwa Wong, Yi Ming A. Chen

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摘要

Glycine N-methyltransferase (GNMT) is a protein with multiple functions. Recently, two Italian siblings who had hepatomegaly and chronic elevation of serum transaminases were diagnosed to have GNMT deficiency caused by inherited compound heterozygosity of the GNMT gene with missence mutations. To evaluate the expression of GNMT in cell lines and tissues from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, we produced two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) 4-17 and 14-1 using two recombinant GNMT fusion proteins. M13 phage peptide display showed that the reactive epitopes of mAbs 4-17 and 14-1 were amino acid residues 11-15 and 272-276 of human GNMT, respectively. The dissociation constants of the binding between GNMT and mAbs were 1.7 × 10-8 M for mAb 4-17 and 1.8 × 10-9 M for mAb 14-1. Both mAbs can identify GNMT present in normal human and mouse liver tissues using Western blotting (WB) and immunohistochemical staining assay (IHC). In addition, WB with both mAbs showed that none of 2 hepatoblastoma and 5 HCC cell lines expressed GNMT. IHC demonstrated that 50% (13/26) of nontumorous liver tissues and 96% (24/25) of HCC tissues did not express GNMT. Therefore, the expression of GNMT was downregulated in human HCC.
原文英語
頁(從 - 到)87-97
頁數11
期刊Journal of Biomedical Science
10
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2月 13 2003
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 內分泌學、糖尿病和代謝
  • 分子生物學
  • 臨床生物化學
  • 細胞生物學
  • 生物化學(醫學)
  • 藥學(醫學)

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