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  • Title: Subtraction hybridization identifies a novel melanoma differentiation associated gene, mda-7, modulated during human melanoma differentiation, growth and progression.
    Author: Jiang H, Lin JJ, Su ZZ, Goldstein NI, Fisher PB.
    Journal: Oncogene; 1995 Dec 21; 11(12):2477-86. PubMed ID: 8545104.
    Abstract:
    Cultured human melanoma cells lose proliferative capacity and terminally differentiate after treatment with the combination of recombinant human fibroblast interferon (IFN-beta) and mezerein (MEZ). Subtraction hybridization of cDNA libraries prepared from actively proliferating human H0-1 melanoma cells from cDNA libraries produced from H0-1 cells treated with IFN-beta + MEZ identifies a novel melanoma differentiation-associated (mda) cDNA, mda-7, that displays elevated expression in differentiation inducer-treated H0-1 cells. mda-7 encodes a novel protein of 206 amino acids with a predicted size of 23.8 kDa. The level of mda-7 mRNA is elevated in actively proliferating normal human melanocytes versus primary and metastatic human melanomas. In the Matrigel-assisted melanoma progression model, mda-7 expression decreases in early vertical growth phase primary human melanoma cells selected for autonomous or enhanced tumor formation in nude mice. Treatment of human melanomas with IFN-beta + MEZ, and to a lesser extent with MEZ, results in growth suppression and induced or enhanced mda-7 expression. Immunoprecipitation analyses using peptide-derived rabbit polyclonal antibodies detect increases in mda-7 protein, and a higher molecular weight protein of approximately 90 to 100 kDa, in MEZ and IFN-beta + MEZ treated H0-1 cells. mda-7 is a highly conserved gene with an homologous sequence in the genome of yeast. Transfection of mda-7 expression constructs into H0-1 and C8161 human melanoma cells reduces growth and inhibits colony formation. These results confirm that mda-7 has antiproliferative properties in human melanoma cells and in this context may contribute to terminal cell differentiation. The mda-7 gene may also function as a negative regulator of melanoma progression.
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