一个定位在7q32染色体区域的鼻咽癌负相关EST

为了分离和克隆定位于７ｑ３２染色体区域的与鼻咽癌发病有关的抑瘤基因，检测了鼻咽癌活检组织及配对外周血标本中７ｑ３２微卫星ＤＮＡ多态性位点的基因型，发现在７ｑ３２区域存在３０％左右的杂合性丢失，从Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ中查询到定位于７ｑ３２区域的所有不同ＥＳＴ，对其中２０个ＥＳＴ进行分析，ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ和Ｎｏｒｔｈｅｒｎ杂交发现，ＡＡ０７０４３７，ＥＳＴ在鼻咽癌细胞株ＨＮＥ１中表达微弱，而在正常鼻咽上皮原代

A Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Negatively Related EST on 7q32

To isolate and clone tile tumor suppressor gene on chromosomal region 7q32 that corelated with the occurrence of human NPC, we detected the genotype of polymorphic microsatellite markers on 7q32 in 24 nasopharyngeal carcinoma biopsies and matched normal lymphocyte DNA. LOH was found in 30% biopsies. Using differential RT-PCR and Northern hybridization we compared the expression level of 20 EST on 7q32 between NPC cell line HNE1 and primary culture of normal nasopharyngeal epithelial cell, and found AA070437 EST expressed high in primary culture of normal nasopharyngeal epithelial cell, but very low in HNE1.Differential RT-PCR (dRT-PCR) analysis showed that the expression level of AA070437 was lower in 30.7% NPC biopses than in normal cell. Differential PCR (dPCR) showed that allelic loss of AA070437 was observed in 29.1% NPC biopses. This EST is a part of sequence of a new gene compared with GeneBank database. Our results showed that AA070437 EST negatively related with the occurrence of human NPC is a candidate of tumor suppressor gene of NPC on 7q32.