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Overexpression of DNA-binding protein B gene product in breast cancer as detected by in vitro-generated combinatorial human immunoglobulin libraries.

Abstract：

:Molecules differentially expressed or overexpressed by malignant cells can serve in detecting and tracking of tumor. Additionally, they potentially can be applied in histologic-specific antitumor therapy. Few breast cancer-associated candidate molecules have been identified. Here we describe the use of combinatorial immunoglobulin [antigen-binding fragment of immunoglobulin molecule (Fab) fragment] phage libraries generated from patients with breast carcinoma to identify cancer-associated gene expression. The libraries were enriched for tumor-binding Fab by 3 logs and yielded a group of antibodies against DNA-binding protein B (DbpB), a 35-kDa thrombin-inducible nuclear factor and member of the Y-box family of proteins, which are known to act both negatively in selective gene suppression and positively as promoters of gene transcription. Sequencing of the anti-DbpB showed a degree of heterogeneity and bp substitutions suggesting that the Fabs selected from the combinatorial library represented a varied anti-DbpB immune response and did not simply arise from in vitro amplification by PCR of a single or limited numbers of immunoglobulin genes. Sequencing of the DbpB molecule expressed in malignant breast cancer showed no evidence of tumor-specific mutations. Evaluation of levels of DbpB gene product expression however showed the molecule to be constitutively expressed in normal nonmalignant breast tissues but to have consistently differentially higher expression in breast cancer. Immunohistological staining revealed DbpB to be present both intracellularly and on the cell surface, which suggests it may be a means whereby malignant cells repair and replicate DNA in a selectively advantageous manner as compared with nonmalignant cells. DbpB expression in breast cancer may advance the basic understanding of the role of Y-box binding proteins as regulatory agents, and in defining malignant cell phenotypes. In addition, DbpB and the antibodies generated against it may have direct application in tumor detection and in molecule-targeted immunotherapy.

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Cancer Res

journal_title

Cancer research

authors

Rubinstein DB,Stortchevoi A,Boosalis M,Ashfaq R,Guillaume T

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-09-01 00:00:00

pages

4985-91

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0008-5472

issn

1538-7445

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Overexpression of DNA-binding protein B gene product in breast cancer as detected by in vitro-generated combinatorial human immunoglobulin libraries.