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  • Title: Elevated concentrations of gamma-enolase in renal cell tumors in rats: similarity to renal cell carcinoma in man.
    Author: Takashi M, Sakata T, Inaguma Y, Kato K.
    Journal: Urol Res; 1996; 24(6):375-9. PubMed ID: 9008332.
    Abstract:
    Concentrations of enolase isozymes in normal kidney and renal cell tumors in rats were determined using a highly sensitive enzyme immunoassay, and the isozymes were immunohistochemically localized in tissue sections. Levels of alpha-enolase in renal cell tumors were significantly lower than in normal kidney, whereas those of gamma-enolase were significantly elevated (mean +/- SD: 211 +/- 129 ng/mg protein, n = 15, as compared to 27.1 +/- 2.9 ng/mg protein, n = 7). The proportion of gamma-enolase in the total enolases in the tumor tissues (1.6 +/- 0.5%) was significantly higher than in normal kidney (0.15 +/- 0.05%). Immunohistochemistry revealed epithelial cells of all nephron segments to be positive for the alpha-isozyme, whereas gamma-enolase staining was strongly positive only in the loops of Henle, being faint in the distal tubules and absent in the proximal tubules. Both alpha- and gamma-enolases demonstrated positive immunostaining in all of the seven renal cell tumors studied. These findings indicate that an isozyme switch from alpha- to gamma-enolase occurs during rat kidney carcinogenesis, taking into account the derivation from proximal tubules, consistent with the findings for renal cell carcinomas in man.
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