| Literature DB >> 19688274 |
Chun-xiao Xu1, Xian-xi Liu, Guo-sheng Hou, Yun-fei Yan, Shi-min Chen, Wei Wang, Guang-shui Jiang, Bin Liu, Jia-xuan Xin.
Abstract
Tumstatin is the 28 kDa NC1 domain of the alpha3 chain of type IV collagen that inhibits pathological angiogenesis and suppresses endothelial cell proliferation and tumor growth. In the present paper, we expressed and purified recombinant human tumstatin protein and then prepared the anti-tumstatin polyclonal antibody. To investigate the expression of tumstatin in renal carcinoma, tumstatin protein was detected by western blotting using the prepared anti-tumstatin antibody and tumstatin mRNA levels were assayed by RT-PCR. The results showed that the expression of tumstatin gene was down-regulated in renal carcinoma tissues and cells. Our study suggests that as a novel endogenous angiogenesis inhibitor, tumstatin gene expression may be a marker for diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of renal carcinoma.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19688274 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-009-9718-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Biol Rep ISSN: 0301-4851 Impact factor: 2.316