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Saitama Cancer Center Research Institute, Ina, Kitaadachi-gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan [E. S., Y. G., Y. K., T. K., H. F.], and University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030 [N. S.]
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In 1988, Tockman et al. first reported that a lung cancer-specific monoclonal antibody, 703 D, recognized human hnRNP A2/B1 protein with a Mr of 31,000, and that hnRNP A2/B1 protein was frequently overexpressed in the early clinical stage of primary non-small cell lung cancer (7) . In addition, they reported that hnRNP A2/B1 was strongly expressed in bronchial epithelial cells by sputum cytology before x-ray-imaging diagnosis of lung cancer (7, 8, 9, 10) . These results indicated that hnRNP A2/B1 protein could be a useful tool for the early detection of human lung cancer.
hnRNP A2/B1 protein is a major component of the hnRNP core complex in mammalian cell nuclei. Although the function of hnRNP A2/B1 has not yet been fully elucidated, recent studies have revealed that hnRNP A2/B1 is involved in RNA splicing in nuclei as well as in mRNA transport from nucleus to cytoplasm (11 , 12) .
One of our authors (T. K.) previously elucidated (13) a complete sequence of human hnRNP A2/B1 gene. She found that hnRNP B1 mRNA is a splicing variant of hnRNP A2 mRNA and that hnRNP B1 protein contains an additional 12 amino acids that hnRNP A2 protein does not, with predicted Mr of 37,000 for hnRNP B1 protein and 34,000 for hnRNP A2 protein. On the basis of evidence that hnRNP B1 mRNA constitutes 25% of hnRNP A2/B1 mRNA (13) , we studied expression of hnRNP A2/B1 mRNA and hnRNP B1 mRNA separately. We found that hnRNP B1 mRNA is more specifically elevated in human lung cancer cells than hnRNP A2/B1 mRNA. We further raised a hnRNP B1-specific antibody and used it to develop a specific and sensitive immunohistochemical method for the detection of human lung cancer. This is the first report that hnRNP B1 is well qualified as a new tumor marker for human lung cancer, which suggests that our anti-hnRNP B1-specific antibody will be useful for the early detection of lung cancer.
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RT-PCR.
Total RNA was isolated from cancerous and noncancerous tissues by the acid guanidinium/phenol/chloroform extraction method as reported previously (14)
. One µg total RNA was applied to RT with MuLV reverse transcriptase (Roche Molecular Systems, New Jersey) at 37°C for 60 min. Obtained cDNAs (1 µg) were amplified using hnRNP A2/B1 and hnRNP B1 specific primers in the following conditions: (a) initial denaturation at 95°C for 5 min; and (b) 25-cycle amplification for hnRNP A2/B1 or 28-cycle for hnRNP B1. The PCR products were subjected to 5% PAGE in 0.5x Tris-boric acid-EDTA buffer. Radioactivity of PCR products was determined by BAS 2000 Bioimage analyzer (Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan). After normalizing by an amount of ß-actin mRNA as a control, the expression of hnRNP A2/B1 mRNA and hnRNP B1 mRNA in cancerous tissue was compared with that in adjacent noncancerous tissue. The results were obtained in duplicate assays.
Preparation of Anti-hnRNP A2/B1 and Anti-hnRNP B1 Antibodies.
Anti-hnRNP A2/B1 and anti-hnRNP B1 antibodies were produced in rabbit using 18-mer synthetic peptide (amino acid residues 194210 + cysteine) for hnRNP A2/B1 protein and 19-mer synthetic peptide (amino acid residues 320 + cysteine) for hnRNP B1 protein. The immunized sera were affinity-purified by the antigen and then purified by Mono-Q column chromatography.
Western Blot Analysis and Immunohistochemistry.
Human lung cancer cell lines were maintained in RPMI 1640 supplemented with 10% FCS. For the preparation of cytosolic and nuclear fractions, cells were lysed in 2-(N-morpholino)-ethanesulfonic acid buffer (pH 7.0) containing 17 mM 2-(N-morpholino)-ethanesulfonic acid, 20 mM EDTA, 250 mM sucrose, 50 µg/ml leupeptin, 300 µg/ml aprotinin, and 1 mM phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride. The supernatant was obtained as cytosolic fraction by centrifugation at 100,000 x g for 60 min at 4°C. Nuclei were sonicated in buffer containing 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 1% Tween 20, 50 µg/ml leupeptin, 300 µg/ml aprotinin, and 1 mM phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride and centrifuged at 15,000 x g for 20 min at 4°C. The supernatant was used as nuclear fraction. The cytosolic and nuclear fractions were subjected to SDS-PAGE. Western blotting was performed using anti-hnRNP A2/B1 and anti-hnRNP B1 antibodies, and hnRNP A2/B1 protein was visualized by the enhanced chemiluminescence system (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom). Immunohistochemical staining was performed by the standard method as reported previously (15)
. In brief, a deparaffinized 5-µm-thin tissue section was heated by microwave for 5 min, twice, and then treated with anti-hnRNP A2/B1 and hnRNP B1 antibodies overnight at 10°C after visualization with DAKO ENVISSION system (DAKO Co. Carpinteria, CA). Immunohistochemical examination was conducted by two independent investigators (E. S. and Y. G.).
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Immunohistochemical Detection of hnRNP A2/B1 and hnRNP B1 Proteins.
To detect the expression of both hnRNP A2/B1 and hnRNP B1 proteins in human lung cancer cells, we used anti-hnRNP A2/B1 and anti-hnRNP B1 polyclonal antibodies. Anti-hnRNP A2/B1 antibody recognized two protein bands with Mr of 37,000 and 34,000 in the nuclear fraction of adenocarcinoma cell line A549 cells but not in the cytosolic fraction. The molar ratio of Mr 37,000 and 34,000 proteins is comparable to that of hnRNP B1 mRNA to hnRNP A2/B1 mRNA. Because anti-hnRNP B1 antibody significantly detected a single Mr 37,000 protein in the nuclear fraction (Fig. 2A)
, we concluded that the Mr 37,000 protein is hnRNP B1 and the Mr 34,000 protein is hnRNP A2. Preimmune normal rabbit serum did not react with these two proteins.
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Considered together, our results indicate that hnRNP B1 protein is overexpressed in the early stage of human lung cancer development and is, therefore, a useful marker for early detection of human lung cancer, especially for SCC. Thus, we think that hnRNP B1 protein is a more specific and sensitive marker for lung cancer than hnRNP A2/B1 protein. It is still unclear how hnRNP B1 protein was recognized by our assay system to be overexpressed compared with hnRNP A2 protein, inasmuch as hnRNP B1 protein is identical to hnRNP A2 protein except for the 12 additional amino acids in hnRNP B1 (13) . It was reported previously (19) that hnRNP is a complex of about 30 major proteins with Mr ranging from 30,000 to 120,000, and that these proteins are phosphorylated by casein kinase 2 and bind to calmodulin (20) . hnRNP B1 protein is more basic than hnRNP A2 protein (20) because its NH2-terminal additional peptide contains a cluster of basic amino acids. For this reason, we think that hnRNP B1 protein can be more easily recognized by its antibody than hnRNP A2 protein. It is now anticipated that anti-hnRNP B1 antibody will be used in the examination of sputum specimens during the screening of the general population for lung cancer.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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1 This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Cancer Research, Special Cancer Research, from the Ministry of Education, Sciences, Sports and Culture, Japan; a Grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare for a Second-Term Comprehensive 10-Year Strategy for Cancer Control, Japan; and Grants from the Foundation of Promotion of Cancer Research, the Smoking Research Fund, the Uehara Memorial Life Science Foundation, Suzuken Memorial Foundation, and the Plant Science Research Foundation of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University. ![]()
2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Saitama Cancer Center Research Institute, Ina, Kitaadachi-gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan. E-mail: hfuji{at}saitama-cc.go.jp ![]()
3 The abbreviations used are: SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; hnRNP, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein; RT, reverse transcription. ![]()
Received 1/26/99. Accepted 2/15/99.
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