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Here we directly compared gene expression profiles in human esophageal squamous cell carcinomas and in human fetal esophagus development. We used the suppression subtractive hybridization technique to subtract cDNAs prepared from tumor and normal human esophageal samples. cDNA sequencing and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of RNAs from human tumor and the normal esophagus revealed 10 differentially transcribed genes: CSTA, CRNN, CEACAM1, MAL, EMP1, ECRG2, and SPRR downregulated, and PLAUR, SFRP4, and secreted protein that is acidic and rich in cysteine upregulated in tumor tissue as compared with surrounding normal tissue. In turn, genes up- and downregulated in tumor tissue were down- and upregulated, respectively, during development from the fetal to adult esophagus. Thus, we demonstrated that, as reported for other tumors, gene transcriptional activation and/or suppression events in esophageal tumor progression were opposite to those observed during development from the fetal to adult esophagus. This tumor 'embryonization' supports the idea that stem or progenitor cells are implicated in esophageal cancer emergence.
Dis Esophagus 2010 Apr
PMID:Identification of some human genes oppositely regulated during esophageal squamous cell carcinoma formation and human embryonic esophagus development. 1973 25