肿瘤细胞混合肽诱导特异性抗肿瘤免疫应答

采用细胞冻融、加热沉淀及酸处理等基本生化技术, 从肿瘤细胞中获取混合 肽; 将热休克蛋白70与肽体外结合, 观察热休克蛋白70-肽复合物对小鼠脾淋巴细胞的激活增殖作用以及增殖的淋巴细胞对瘤细胞的特异性杀伤作用, 并运用流式细胞仪分析增殖的淋巴细胞类型; 分别通过对腹腔和腿部肌肉接种了H22肝癌细胞的BALB/c小鼠进行热休克蛋白70-H22抗原肽复合物免疫注射, 观察小鼠肿瘤的抑制和荷瘤小鼠的生存期情况. 另外, 对免疫的小鼠采血进行肝、肾功能检测. 结果显示, 获取的混合肽中含有肿瘤特异的抗原肽, 其经热休克蛋白提呈后, 体外可刺激淋巴细胞活化增殖, 增殖的淋巴细胞为T淋巴细胞, 对肿瘤细胞有特异性细胞毒效应, 体内对腹水型和实体瘤型肿瘤的生长均可产生显著抑制作用, 同时延长荷瘤小鼠的生存期, 并且这种体内免疫对小鼠肝肾功能不产生影响, 不会引发自身免疫反应.     

HBXIP基因对乙肝病毒X蛋白诱导细胞凋亡的影响

探讨乙型肝炎病毒X蛋白结合蛋白(hepatitisBXinteractingprotein ,HBXIP)基因在乙型肝炎病毒X蛋白(HBX)诱导肝癌细胞凋亡时对细胞周期的影响.构建HBXIP基因真核表达载体pcDNA3 hbxip ,进行瞬时基因转染,将克隆有HBx基因的pCMV X (分别为1μg、2 μg和3μg)和pcDNA3 hbxip质粒分别和共转染至人H74 0 2肝癌细胞中(总体积分别为5 0 μl) .发现瞬时转染3μgpCMV X质粒后,肝癌细胞凋亡发生率为34 4 % ,肝癌细胞的细胞周期相关蛋白p2 7表达水平发生明显上调;与对照组相比,瞬时转染1μg、2 μg和3μg时,细胞周期蛋白D和细胞周期蛋白E的表达水平均发生明显上调,但随着HBX水平的增加细胞周期蛋白D和细胞周期蛋白E的表达水平发生明显下降;在稳定转染pCMV X质粒的H74 0 2 X肝癌细胞中无明显的细胞凋亡发生,研究发现p2 7的表达水平发生了明显下调,而细胞周期蛋白D和细胞周期蛋白E的表达水平发生了明显上调;当pcDNA3 hbxip质粒与pCMV X质粒进行共瞬时转染时,细胞凋亡发生率由pcDNA3质粒与pCMV X质粒共转染时的2 9 2 %下降为13 3% ,p2 7的表达水平发生了下调,但细胞周期蛋白D和细胞周期蛋白E的表达水平无明显变化.研究结果表明,瞬时转染一定剂量的x基因可导致肝癌细胞发生凋亡,细胞周期相关蛋白p2 7、细胞周期蛋白D和     

肝癌亚细胞结构的蛋白质组分比较分析

运用亚细胞蛋白质组学的研究策略,分离纯化亚细胞结构,可以提高低丰度蛋白质在双向电泳中检出的数量。通过对比分析肝癌细胞与正常肝细胞线粒体、细胞核蛋白质组的差异表达情况,为肝癌发病机理的研究提供更多、更有价值的信息。以体外培养的人体肝癌细胞QGY-7703与正常肝细胞LO2为研究模型,通过超离心的方法分离细胞的线粒体和细胞核。双向电泳分离线粒体和细胞核的蛋白质,图像分析筛选差异表达蛋白斑点,MALDI-TOF-MS鉴定蛋白质。从线粒体、细胞核的蛋白质电泳图谱中筛选出54个候选差异表达的蛋白质斑点,质谱鉴定出22种差异表达蛋白质,其中17种在肝癌细胞中表达上调,5种在肝癌细胞中表达下调。筛选出的差异表达蛋白质涉及到细胞的能量代谢、蛋白质合成、细胞骨架与核骨架的改变、mRNA的加工成熟及凋亡调控等许多方面,表明癌变细胞的组织结构和代谢状态都发生了很大的变化。     

乙肝病毒X蛋白通过骨桥蛋白OPN促进肝癌细胞迁移

乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)感染与肝细胞癌(HCC)的发生具有十分密切的关系,乙肝病毒X蛋白(HBx)对HCC的发生和转移具有重要的作用.研究发现,骨桥蛋白(OPN)在许多肿瘤及其转移组织中高表达,与肿瘤转移密切相关.为了进一步阐明HBx在肝癌细胞迁移中的作用及其分子机制,以稳定表达HBx的肝癌细胞H7402-X为模型探讨了HBx与OPN的关系.结果发现,HBx可激活OPN启动子转录活性和上调OPN的mRNA表达."体外划痕"实验结果显示,HBx与肝癌细胞的迁移能力呈正相关.通过RNA干扰下调OPN的表达可抑制H7402-X细胞的迁移能力.本研究发现,HBx通过上调OPN的表达促进肝癌细胞迁移,对揭示肝癌转移的分子机制具有重要意义.     

肺癌转移相关蛋白的比较蛋白质组分析与鉴定

采用比较蛋白质组技术对肺巨细胞癌高、低转移株的蛋白质表达谱进行双向电泳分离和MALDI-TOF分析,并在蛋白质和mRNA水平进行进一步验证,成功鉴定了11个肺癌转移相关蛋白.其中,候选蛋白膜联蛋白1(ANX1)、细胞骨架蛋白(CK18)、Rho-GDP解离抑制剂1(GDIR)、原肌球蛋白3(TPMF)、蛋白谷氨酰胺γ-谷氨酰转移酶(TGLC)和白介素18(IL-18)在肺巨细胞癌高转移株显著高表达,而候选蛋白核氯离子通道蛋白1(CLI1)、蛋白质二硫键异构酶(ER60)、肌酸激酶、硫氧还蛋白过氧化物酶1(PDX1)和热休克蛋白60(CH60)在肺巨细胞癌高转移株显著低表达.大多数的候选蛋白可通过调控肿瘤细胞的生长、迁移、粘附、凋亡和肿瘤免疫等环节来影响肿瘤细胞的侵袭和转移能力.迄今为止,还未见候选蛋白CLI1和IL-18与肺癌转移相关的报道,提示这两种蛋白质可能为新的肺癌转移相关蛋白.     

肝细胞癌转移相关蛋白的iTRAQ定量蛋白质组学研究

该研究对不同转移能力的人肝癌细胞系全细胞蛋白进行差异蛋白质组分析,以期发现与肝癌转移相关的候选分子。选择具有高、低转移能力的人肝癌细胞系HCCLM6和MHCC97H为研究材料,提取细胞全蛋白,FASP酶切、iTRAQ标记后进行质谱鉴定和定量分析,并利用Uni Prot数据库和GOfact软件对差异蛋白进行生物信息学分析,包括亚细胞定位、生物过程和分子功能富集分析。共鉴定了5 033种蛋白质,其中5 013种蛋白质有定量信息,发现91种差异蛋白(|ratio|≥1.5,单样本t检验,P0.05),其中39种蛋白在高转移细胞HCCLM6中上调,52种下调。差异蛋白的细胞定位主要为细胞质和细胞膜,GO分析显著富集到细胞黏附生物过程和蛋白结合生物功能。该研究建立了高低转移能力的人肝癌细胞系HCCLM6和MHCC97H细胞全蛋白的差异表达谱,发现了4种新的与肝癌转移相关的候选蛋白(微管蛋白链β-2B、着丝粒蛋白F、层黏连蛋白亚基α5和囊泡相关膜蛋白5),为进一步研究肝癌转移机制提供了重要的数据参考。     

人肝癌细胞系的糖蛋白质组学研究

糖基化是最重要的蛋白质翻译后形式之一,糖基化蛋白的糖链部分影响着蛋白质的折叠和稳定性以及其生物学功能.许多恶性肿瘤组织与正常组织相比已显示出蛋白质糖基化的差异.采用蛋白质组学分析方法结合先进的糖蛋白荧光染色技术,研究了正常人肝细胞系(ChangLiver)和人肝癌细胞系(Hep3B)糖蛋白糖基化的差异.首先用细胞裂解法提取细胞总蛋白质,进行双向电泳(2-DE),然后用pro-QEmerald488糖蛋白荧光染料进行糖蛋白染色,得到两种细胞系糖基化蛋白表达谱,经2-DE分析软件Dymension分析2-DE图像,比较糖蛋白的糖基化程度,并对糖基化蛋白进行质谱鉴定.结果显示正常人肝细胞表达(74±2)个(n=3),而人肝癌细胞系表达(78±3)个糖蛋白(n=3).两者匹配的糖蛋白质点31个,Hep3B表达而ChangLiver不表达的糖蛋白质点47个,ChangLiver表达而Hep3B不表达的糖蛋白质点43个.两种细胞系糖基化程度存在明显差异,与正常人肝细胞相比,肝癌细胞发生糖基化改变的糖蛋白有25个,其中糖基化水平上调的有10个,下调的有15个,质谱鉴定出12个发生糖基化改变的糖蛋白.这些结果显示蛋白质糖基化改变可能在肝癌的发生和发展中起一定作用.     

顺铂作用卵巢癌细胞株的蛋白质组学研究

应用蛋白质组学技术观察顺铂作用于人卵巢癌SKOV3细胞株后蛋白质分子的表达差 异, 探讨蛋白质组学方法在化疗药物抗肿瘤作用机制研究方面的应用. 用顺铂(6 mg/mL)作用人卵巢癌SKOV3细胞6 h, 分别收集实验组与对照组细胞, 裂解并提取细胞内总蛋白; 以固相IPG胶条(17 cm, pH4~7)为载体, 进行第一向等电聚焦和第二向SDS-PAGE电泳, 得到实验组与对照组双向电泳凝胶图; 经考马斯亮蓝染色后, 在PDQuest软件的辅助下进行实验组与对照组蛋白质表达的比较, 选择并切取明显差异点共11个, 经肽质量指纹谱(PMF)和串级质谱(MS/MS)分析, 检测出差异点中包含的主要蛋白. 通过质谱分析显示, 顺铂处理后表达明显上调的有原肌球蛋白家族、肌动蛋白家族、热休克蛋白60(HSP60)、磷酸丙糖异构酶(TIM)家族等; 表达下调的有烯醇酶家族等. 这几类蛋白质多参与细胞内能量代谢、细胞形态维持、细胞转化凋亡等生理过程, 提示顺铂的抗肿瘤机制可能与此有关.     

表阿霉素对肝癌亚细胞蛋白质组影响的研究

表阿霉素是临床应用的抗癌药物之一,它干扰DNA的复制和转录,并能诱导癌细胞凋亡。表阿霉素对癌细胞蛋白质表达谱的影响,涉及到表阿霉素药理作用的机制,对此进行研究,有助于抗癌药物作用机制的理解。运用亚细胞蛋白质组学的研究策略,对比分析表阿霉素干预前后,肝癌细胞线粒体、细胞核蛋白质组的表达差异。通过超离心分离纯化细胞器,双向电泳分离蛋白质,图像分析筛选差异表达蛋白,MALDI-TOF-MS分析鉴定蛋白质。从线粒体、细胞核两个亚细胞组分中一个鉴定了15种差异表达蛋白,其中5种在表阿霉素干预后的肝癌细胞中表达上调,10种干预后表达下调。这些差异表达蛋白质涉及到细胞的能量代谢、蛋白质合成、细胞骨架的改变、mRNA的加工成熟、细胞应急状态的形成及凋亡调控等许多方面。     

扁蒴藤素对人鼻咽癌HNE2 细胞增殖的抑制作用研究

目的：探讨扁蒴藤素对人鼻咽癌HNE2 细胞增殖的抑制作用,明确HSP70 在肿瘤发展过程中的抑制作用。方法：噻唑蓝法 （MTT）检测扁蒴藤素对HNE2 细胞生长抑制作用,流式细胞术检测扁蒴藤素诱导HNE2 细胞凋亡,免疫印迹法检测Caspase、 PARP、酪氨酸激酶、AKT 及Bcl-2 家族蛋白表达。结果：扁蒴藤素抑制HNE2 细胞的生长,促使Caspase 9,Caspase 3和PARP 蛋 白被切割,上调Bim 等促凋亡蛋白的表达,减少Bcl-xL等抗凋亡蛋白的表达,下调EGFR 等受体酪氨酸激酶, 抑制AKT 磷酸化, 上调热休克蛋白70（HSP70）的表达。用热休克反应抑制剂KNK437 抑制HSP70 的表达可以增强扁蒴藤素促进细胞凋亡的能力。 结论：扁蒴藤素通过下调受体酪氨酸激酶,激活caspase 介导的凋亡通路抑制鼻咽癌HNE2 细胞的增殖,抑制HSP70 的表达可增 强其抗肿瘤作用。     

Rac1 regulates heat shock responses by reorganization of vimentin filaments: identification using MALDI-TOF MS.

Rac1 has been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes, including actin remodeling and various signaling cascades. Here we have examined whether Rac1 might be involved in heat shock-induced cell signaling. We found that Rat2 stable cells expressing a dominant negative Rac1 mutant, RacN17 (Rat2-RacN17), were significantly more tolerant to heat shock than control Rat2 cells, and simultaneously inhibited the activation of SAPK/JNK by heat shock compared to control Rat2 cells. However, no discernible effect was observed in typical heat shock responses including total protein synthesis and heat shock protein synthesis. To identify the proteins involved in this difference, we separated the proteins of both Rat2 and Rat2-RacN17 cell lines after heat shock using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and identified the differentially expressed proteins by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) after in-gel trypsin digestion. Differentially expressed proteins between two cell lines were identified as vimentin. Rat2-RacN17 cells showed significant changes in vimentin as well as marked changes in vimentin reorganization by heat shock. The vimentin changes were identified as N-terminal head domain cleavage. These results suggest that Rac1 plays a pivotal role in the heat shock-induced signaling cascade by modifying intermediate vimentin filaments.     

A proteomic approach towards understanding crypoprotective action of Me2SO on the CHO cell proteome

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines are the most widely used in vitro cells for research and production of recombinant proteins such as rhGH, tPA, and erythropoietin. We aimed to investigate changes in protein profiles after cryopreservation using 2D-DIGE MALDI-TOF MS and network pathway analysis. The proteome changes that occur in CHO cells between freshly prepared cells and cryopreserved cells with and without Me2SO were compared to determine the key proteins and pathways altered during recovery from cryopreservation. A total of 54 proteins were identified and successfully matched to 37 peptide mass fingerprints (PMF). 14 protein spots showed an increase while 23 showed decrease abundance in the Me2SO free group compared to the control. The proteins with increased abundance included vimentin, heat shock protein 60 kDa, mitochondrial, heat shock 70 kDa protein 9, protein disulfide-isomerase A3, voltage-dependent anion-selective channel protein 2. Those with a decrease in abundance were myotubularin, glutathione peroxidase, enolase, phospho glyceromutase, chloride intracellular channel protein 1. The main canonical functional pathway affected involved the unfolded protein response, aldosterone Signaling in Epithelial Cells, 14-3-3-mediated signaling. 2D-DIGE MALDI TOF mass spectrometry and network pathway analysis revealed the differential proteome expression of FreeStyle CHO cells after cryopreservation with and without 5% Me2SOto involve pathways related to post-translational modification, protein folding and cell death and survival (score = 56, 22 focus molecules). This study revealed, for the first time to our knowledge the proteins and their regulated pathways involved in the cryoprotective action of 5% Me2SO. The use of 5% Me2SO as a cryoprotectant maintained the CHO cell proteome in the cryopreserved cells, similar to that of fresh CHO cells.     

Heat shock protein 70 is able to prevent heat shock-induced resistance of target cells to CTL

Heat shock or transfection with heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) genes has been shown to protect tumor cell lines against immune mechanisms of cytotoxicity. We have reported previously that heat shock confers resistance to CTL in the rat myeloma cell line Y3 that is Hsp70 defective. Evidence is now presented that Hsp70 is able to prevent the induction of the resistant phenotype. In Con A-stimulated lymphocytes and in lymphocyte x Y3 somatic cell hybrid clones a severe, non-Hsp70-inducing heat shock elicits resistance to CTL in contrast to a heat shock that results in Hsp70 expression. Thus, Hsp70 expression appears to be negatively associated with the development of resistance. Furthermore, loading of Y3 cells with recombinant Hsp70 protein before heat shock is able to prevent resistance. Because apoptosis induced in Y3 cells by heat shock is not affected, Hsp70 appears to interfere selectively with the CTL-induced lethal pathway that is found to be calcium but not caspase dependent. It is suggested that after heat shock Hsp70 enhances the CTL-induced apoptotic pathway by chaperoning certain proteins in the target cell that are involved in the execution of cell death. Thus, although shown to confer protection against many cytotoxic mechanisms, Hsp70 does not appear to be generally cytoprotective. This observation could also be of relevance when interpreting the effectiveness of tumor immunity.     

荧光素酶标的人肝癌细胞裸鼠异种移植瘤模型的生物发光成像和PET-CT成像比较

目的利用荧光素酶基因标记的人肝癌细胞株BEL-7402建立裸鼠肝原位移植模型,及小鼠肝原位移植模型的生物发光和小动物PET-CT成像的比较。方法构建表达荧光素酶基因的真核表达载体并将其转入人肝癌细胞BEL-7402,经梯度浓度G418筛选获得稳定表达荧光素酶基因的细胞克隆并扩大培养。BALB/cA-nu裸鼠肝门静脉接种5×105个发光细胞使其成瘤,活体荧光成像和小动物PET-CT成像系统观察肿瘤的生长情况。结果获得了稳定表达Luc的人肝癌细胞株,将其接种到裸鼠体内,活体荧光成像系统观察发现能够成瘤,小动物PET-CT影像观察发现小鼠肝脏边缘对18 F-FDG有高摄取区域。结论利用荧光素酶基因标记的人肝癌细胞BEL-7402成功建立了原位肝癌裸鼠模型,小动物活体成像结合小动物PET-CT技术为原位肿瘤模型的建立提供了一种新的可靠的技术,为进一步研究肝癌生长转移机制和药物开发提供了新的有用工具。     

Heat shock protein 70 and glycoprotein 96 are differentially expressed on the surface of malignant and nonmalignant breast cells

Heat shock proteins (HSPs), which are important for a number of different intracellular functions, are occasionally found on the surface of cells. The function of heat shock protein on the cell surface is not understood, although it has been shown to be greater in some tumor cells and some virally infected cells. Surface expression of both glycoprotein 96 (gp96) and Hsp70 occurs on tumor cells, and this expression correlates with natural killer cell killing of the cells. We examined the surface expression of gp96 and Hsp70 on human breast cell lines MCF7, MCF10A, AU565, and HS578, and in primary human mammary epithelial cells by immunofluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. The nonmalignant cell lines HS578, MCF10A, and HMEC showed no surface expression of gp96, whereas malignant cell lines MCF7 and AU565 were positive for gp96 surface expression. All of the breast cell lines examined showed Hsp70 surface expression. These results also confirm previous studies, demonstrating that Hsp70 is on the plasma membrane of tumor cell lines. Given the involvement of heat shock proteins, gp96 and Hsp70, in innate and adaptive immunity, these observations may be important in the immune response to tumor cells.     

Proteomic study of human umbilical vein endothelial cells in culture

The endothelium is a single layer of cells lining the inside face of all blood vessels. It constitutes a major metabolic organ which is critically involved in the generation and the regulation of multiple physiological and pathological processes such as coagulation, hemostasis, inflammation, atherosclerosis, angiogenesis and cancerous metastasis dissemination. In order to increase our knowledge about the protein content and the main biological pathways of human vascular endothelial cells, we have undertaken the proteomic analysis of the most explored present endothelial cell model, i.e. primocultures of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Using low levels of protein loads (~ 30 nug), the association of two-dimensional electrophoresis with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and database interrogations allowed us to identify 53 proteins of suspected endothelial origin in quiescent HUVECs. Beside cytoskeletal proteins such as actin, tubulin, tropomyosin and vimentin, we identified various proteins more especially implicated in cellular motility and plasticity (e.g. cofilin, F-actin capping protein and prefoldin), in regulation of apoptosis and senescence (protease inhibitor 9, glucose related proteins, heat shock proteins, thioredoxin peroxidase, nucleophosmin) as well as other proteins implicated in coagulation (annexin V, high mobility group protein), antigen presentation (valosin containing protein and ubiquitin carboxyl terminal hydrolase isozyme L1) and enzymatic capabilities (glutathione-S-transferase, protein disulfide isomerases, lactate deshydrogenase). The presented annotated 2-D maps of HUVECs will be soon available on the web at http://www. huvec.com.     

Patterns of protein synthesis in various cells after extreme heat shock

The analysis of proteins synthesized in rat thymocytes and mouse teratocarcinoma PCC-4 Aza 1 and myeloma Sp2/0 cells after 1 h of treatment at 42 or 44 degrees C was carried out. Shock at 42 degrees C reduced the total synthetic rate of proteins in all three cell lines and induced "classical" heat-shock protein with a mass of 70 kDa (hsp 70). Heat shock at 44 degrees C resulted in almost complete inhibition of protein synthesis; only a small amount of hsp 70 was synthesized. Meanwhile a new 48-kDa polypeptide (pI = 7.5) was found in the cells exposed to severe heat shock. This protein was compared by peptide mapping with other known polypeptides of the same size: heat-shock protein from chicken embryo cells and mitogen-stimulated polypeptide from human lymphoid cells. The peptide maps were not identical. It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition. The data show that reaction of various cells to extreme heat shock depends heavily on cell type.     

Immunological evidence for the association of p53 with a heat shock protein, hsc70, in p53-plus-ras-transformed cell lines.

A rabbit antiserum was prepared against the C-terminal peptide of 21 amino acids from the human heat shock protein hsp70. These antibodies were shown to be specific for this highly inducible heat shock protein (72 kilodaltons [kDa] in rat cells), and for a moderately inducible, constitutively expressed heat shock protein, hsc70 (74 kDa). In six independently derived rat cell lines transformed by a murine cDNA-genomic hybrid clone of p53 plus an activated Ha-ras gene, elevated levels of p53 were detected by immunoprecipitation by using murine-specific anti-p53 monoclonal antibodies. In all cases, the hsc70, but not the hsp70, protein was coimmunoprecipitated with the murine p53 protein. Similarly, antiserum to heat shock protein coimmunoprecipitated p53. Western blot (immunoblot) analysis demonstrated that the hsc70 and p53 proteins did not share detectable antigenic epitopes. The results provide clear immunological evidence for the specific association of a single heat shock protein, hsc70, with p53 in p53-plus-ras-transformed cell lines. A p53 cDNA clone, p11-4, failed to produce clonable cell lines from foci of primary rat cells transfected with p11-4 plus Ha-ras. A mutant p53 cDNA clone derived from p11-4, SVKH215, yielded a 2- to 35-fold increase in the number of foci produced after transfection of rat cells with SVKH215 plus Ha-ras. When cloned, 87.5% of these foci produced transformed cell lines. SVKH215 encodes a mutant p53 protein that binds preferentially to the heat shock proteins of 70 kDa compared with binding by the parental p11-4 p53 gene product. These data suggest that the p53-hsc70 protein complex could have functional significance in these transformed cells.     

Proteome analysis of human androgen-independent prostate cancer cell lines: variable metastatic potentials correlated with vimentin expression

To better understand the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer (PCA) dissemination and to develop new anti-metastasis therapies, key regulatory molecules involved in PCA metastasis were identified in two human androgen-independent PCA cell lines, highly metastatic 1E8-H and lowly metastatic 2B4-L cells. Through 2-DE and MS analyses, 12 proteins with different expression levels in the two cell lines were identified. The following proteins were found to be significantly up-regulated in 1E8-H cells compared with 2B4-L cells: gp96 precursor, calreticulin precursor, vimentin (VIM), Hsp90alpha, peroxiredoxin 2, HNRPH1, ezrin, T-complex protein 1, alpha subunit, and hypothetical protein mln2339. In contrast, heart L-lactate dehydrogenase H chain, annexin I, and protein disulfide isomerase were notably down-regulated in 1E8-H cells compared with 2B4-L cells. To our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate that up-regulation of VIM expression positively correlates with the invasion and metastasis of androgen-independent PCA.     

Activation of heme oxygenase and heat shock protein 70 genes by stress in human hepatoma cells

Effects of various stresses were examined on the accumulation of mRNA for microsomal heme oxygenase and a heat shock protein, hsp70, in three human hepatoma cell lines. By heat shock, hsp70 mRNA was induced in all three hepatoma lines, Hep G2, Hep 3B and Hep G2f, while heme oxygenase mRNA was increased only in Hep 3B. Time-courses of the heat shock induction of both mRNAs in Hep 3B were similar. Arsenite caused induction of both mRNAs in all three cell lines, while cadmium increased them in Hep G2 and Hep 3B, but not in Hep G2f cells. These findings suggest that, although both hsp70 and heme oxygenase are heat shock proteins, the mode of induction of mRNAs for these proteins is different.