Metastatic rat carcinoma cells express a new retrotransposon. |
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Authors: | M Grassi J M Girault W P Wang J P Thiery J Jouanneau |
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Institution: | UMR 144, CNRS-Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248, Paris Cedex 05, France. |
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Abstract: | Genes differentially expressed by a rat bladder carcinoma NBT-II cells and their in-vivo-selected metastatic M-NBT-II variant were analysed. Amplification and cloning of a 277-bp B sequence, exclusively expressed by the M-NBT-II cells, were performed, and this sequence was detected as a 6.7-kb RNA. This fragment shares 46-50% identities with the gag-related protein of mouse and hamster Intracisternal A Particles (IAPs). Screening of a M-NBT-II cDNA library with the B probe selected a 1671-bp sequence corresponding to the 5' end of a novel retrotransposon member of the rat IAP family. This sequence has a strong identity with the Ecker Rat IAP (ERA-IAP) except for the B portion and has an open reading frame potentially encoding a 114-amino-acid gag retrovirus-related protein. Rearrangement of this new retrotransposon could be relevant with the tumor progression in our model system since it is only expressed in the M-NBT-II in-vivo-selected carcinoma metastasis. |
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