Abstract |
We used a sensitive RNA: RNA in situ hybridization technique to study steady-state levels of c-myc proto-oncogene mRNA in primary human colon adenocarcinomas, villous adenomas, and normal mucosa samples. Frozen tissue sections, fixed in 4% buffered paraformaldehyde, were hybridized to 35S-labeled anti-sense transcripts of a c-myc clone and processed for autoradiography. The specificity of the hybridization was controlled by using 35S-labeled plasmid transcripts as a negative control, while RNA preservation in the tissue sample was assessed by using 35S-labeled anti-sense transcripts of a murine 28S rRNA clone. c-myc RNA was detectable in all the carcinomas (eight) and villous adenomas (four), but steady-state levels varied from high to low in different tumors with similar histology. Low levels of c-myc RNA were detected in epithelial stem cells of some of the normal mucosa samples (five). No genetic alterations of the c-myc locus were found by Southern analysis of DNAs extracted from the carcinomas.
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Authors | R Mariani-Costantini, C Theillet, P Hutzell, G Merlo, J Schlom, R Callahan |
Journal | The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society
(J Histochem Cytochem)
Vol. 37
Issue 3
Pg. 293-8
(Mar 1989)
ISSN: 0022-1554 [Print] United States |
PMID | 2645359
(Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)
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Chemical References |
- DNA Probes
- MAS1 protein, human
- Proto-Oncogene Mas
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
- RNA Probes
- RNA, Messenger
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Topics |
- Adenocarcinoma
(analysis)
- Adenoma
(analysis)
- Blotting, Northern
- Colon
(analysis)
- Colonic Neoplasms
(analysis)
- DNA Probes
- Humans
- Intestinal Mucosa
(analysis)
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Proto-Oncogene Mas
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
(genetics)
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
- RNA Probes
- RNA, Messenger
(analysis)
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