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Increased zinc finger protein zFOC1 transcripts in gastric cancer compared with normal gastric tissue
R L Stephen1, J E Crabtree, T Yoshimura
1Molecular Medicine Unit, St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, West Yorkshire, UK.
Background:
Screening of cDNA arrays of the IMAGE library identified human zFOC1 as a differentially expressed cDNA that was upregulated in KATO III gastric cancer cells following stimulation with the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori.
Aims:
To determine the expression of zFOC1 in gastric mucosa with and without H pylori infection and in patients with gastric cancer.
Results:
zFOC1 is localised on chromosome 12q24.3 and encodes a zinc finger protein. Expression studies in human H pylori infected and uninfected gastric biopsies, gastric tumours, and gastric cancer cell lines revealed that zFOCI gene transcripts are significantly higher in gastric cancer than in non-cancerous gastric tissues.
Conclusions:
The zFOC1 gene appears to be a tumour marker associated with gastric cancer.