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Li
Hou, Jan-Wu Tang, Xiao-Nan Cui, Bo Wang, Bo Song, Lei Sun,
Department of Pathology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116027,
Liaoning Province, China
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning
Province, No. 20022122
Correspondence to: Dr. Jian-Wu Tang, Department of Pathology,
Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116027, Liaoning Province,
China. houli72@163.net
Telephone: +86-411-4720610
Received: 2003-06-05
Accepted: 2003-07-30
Abstract
AIM: In order to elucidate the molecular mechanism of lymphatic
metastasis of hepatocarcinoma, we detected the difference of gene
expression between mouse hepatocarcinoma cell lines Hca-F and Hca-P
with different lymphatic metastasis potential.
METHODS: cDNA of Hca-F cells was
used as a tester and cDNA of Hca-P cells was used as a driver. cDNAs
highly expressed in Hca-F cells were isolated by the suppression
subtractive hybridization (SSH) method. The isolated cDNA was cloned
into T/A cloning vector. The ligation products were transformed into
DH5a
competent cells. Individual clones were randomly selected and used for PCR
amplification. Vector DNA from positive clones was isolated for
sequencing.
RESULTS: There were 800 positive
clones in amplified subtracted cDNA library. Random analysis of 160
clones with PCR showed that 95% of the clones contained 100-700 bp
inserts. Analysis of 20 sequenced cDNA clones randomly picked from
the SSH library revealed 4 known genes (mouse heat shock protein 84
ku, DNA helicase, ribosomal protein S13 ,ethanol induced 6 gene) and
3 expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Four cDNAs showed no homology and
presumably represent novel genes.
CONCLUSION: A subtracted cDNA library of differentially expressed
genes in mouse heptocarcinoma cell lines with different lymphatic
metastasis potential was successfully constructed with SSH and T/A
cloning techniques. The library is efficient and lays a solid
foundation for searching new lymphatic metastasis related genes. The
expression of mouse heat shock protein gene, DNA helicase and other
4 novel gene may be different between mouse heptocarcinoma cell
lines with different lymphatic metastasis potential.
Hou L, Tang JW, Cui XN,
Wang B, Song B, Sun L. Construction and selection of subtracted cDNA
library of mouse hepatocarcinoma cell lines with different lymphatic
metastasis potential. World J Gastroenterol
2004; 10(16): 2318-2322
http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/10/2318.asp
INTRODUCTION
Metastasis is the most lethal attribute of malignant tumors[1].
Ninety percent of malignant tumors are carcinomas, and lymph nodes
are often the first organ to develop metastasis[2]. Lymph
node metastases form a bridgehead for further metastatic spread. But
its molecular mechanism remains poorly understood. A mouse
hepatocarcinoma cell line named Hca-F with high lymphogenous
metastatic potential and its syngeneic cell line named Hca-P[3]
with low lymphogenous metastatic potential have been isolated from
hepatocarcinomas in mice. The biological phenotypes between
different cells are based on the difference between their phenotypes
of gene expression. In this study, we constructed a subtracted cDNA
library of differentially expressed genes in these two
hepatocarcinoma cell lines using the suppressive subtractive
hybridization (SSH)[4-6], which can detect the difference
in gene expression between different cells.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Animals and cell lines
Hepatocarcinoma
cell lines, Hca-F and Hca-P, were obtained from our department.
Twenty inbred 615-mice maintained in our laboratory were equally
divided into 2 groups. Hca-F and Hca-P cells (2×106 cells/mouse) were respectively inoculated in 10 mice in each group. On the 28th day post
inoculation, the mice were killed and their lymph nodes were
collected and stained by HE and examined under microscope.
Therefore, the lymph node metastasis rate was calculated.
Isolation
of RNA and mRNA
Total RNA was isolated from Hca-F and Hca-P cells (108
cells) respectively using Trizol regent (Gibco BRL, USA). And mRNA
was isolated from total RNA using the OligotexTM mRNA kit (Qiagen,
USA) according to its manufacturer’s instructions. The integrity
of RNA and mRNA was checked on a 1% agrose gel.
Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH)
Analysis of differentially expressed genes in Hca-F and Hca-P
cells was performed by the suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH)
using the CLONTECH PCR-SelectTM cDNA subtraction kit (Clotech, USA).
In brief[7,8], 2 mg
of mRNA from Hca-F and Hca-P cells was used for double strand cDNA
synthesis, and the resulting cDNA was digested with Rsa I. The
digested cDNA of Hca-F cells(as a Tester) was split into two groups
and ligated to either adaptor I or adaptor 2R. Subtractive
hybridization was performed by annealing an excess of Hca-P cDNAs
(as a Driver) with each sample of adaptor ligated tester cDNAs. The
cDNAs were heat denatured and incubated at 68 °C for 8 h. After the first hybridization, the two samples were
mixed together and hybridized again with freshly denatured driver
cDNAs for 20 h at 68 °C. The two rounds of hybridization would generate a normalized
population of tester specific cDNA with different adaptors on each
end. After filling in the end, two rounds of PCR amplification were
performed to enrich desired cDNAs containing both adaptors by
exponential amplification of these products. The optimized cycles
for the first and second PCR were 30 and 20, respectively, to
increase representation and reduce redundancy of subtracted cDNA
libraries. Secondary PCR products were used as templates for PCR
amplification of G3PDH at 20, 25, 30, 35 cycles to assure subtracted
efficiency.
Cloning of subtracted cDNA libraries
Products from the secondary PCR were T-A cloned into a T
vector (Takara, China). The ligation products were transformed into
DH5a
competent cells. The transformed cells were plated on LB plates
containing ampicilin, X-Gal and IPTG, which allowed for color
selection of colonies. Randomly selected individual white clones
were grown for 8 h and then used for PCR amplification of clones.
Sequencing and BLAST homology search
Twenty candidate positive clones from subtracted cDNA
library were selected for sequencing. Sequencing was performed by
Takara Biotech using a M13 primer. The BLAST program was used to
search for the cDNA sequence homology of isolated clones in GeneBank.
RESULTS
The analysis of integrity of RNA and mRNA
The A260/A280 of RNA and mRNA from Hca-F and Hca-P was 1.9,
which showed extracted RNA and mRNA were pure. Agarose gel
electrophoresis showed that RNA was not destroyed by ribonucleases
(Figure 1).
Figure 1(PDF)
Total RNA from Hca-F and Hca-P cells. Lane 1: RNA from Hca-F
cells, Lane 2: RNA from Hca-P cells.
Rsa I digestion
The size of digested cDNA molecular was smaller than
undigested in agarose gel electrophoresis, indicating that tester
cDNA and driver cDNA were completely digested.
Subtracted cDNA library construction by SSH
In this study, SSH was performed to identify differentially
expressed genes among cDNAs of hepatocarcinoma cell lines, Hca-F and
Hca-P. One subtracted F-P cDNA library was constructed using Hca-F
with high lymphogenous metastatic potential as a tester and its
syngeneic cell line named Hca-P with low lymphogenous metastatic
potential as a driver. The subtracted cDNA library after secondary
PCR amplification looked like smears (Figure 2).
Subtraction efficiency
analysis showed that the abundance of non-differentially expressed
genes was effectively reduced. In no subtracted cDNA library, the
PCR products of housekeeping gene G3PDH were visible after 25
cycles. However, 35 cycles were required in the subtracted cDNA
library for G3PDH to be detected (Figure 3).
The subtraction cDNA
library contained 800 positive (white) clones. Random analysis of
160 clones with PCR showed that 95% of positive clones contained
100-700 bp inserts (Figure 4).
Figure 2(PDF)
Results of secondary PCR amplification. Lanes 1-3:Product of
primary PCR amplification, Lane 4: Secondary PCR amplification
product of PCR control cDNA, Lane 5: Secondary PCR amplification
product of unsubtracted cDNA ,Lane 6: Secondary PCR amplification
product of subtracted cDNA.
Figure 3(PDF)
Analysis of subtraction effect. PCR was performed on
subtracted (Lanes 1-4) or unsubtracted (Lanes 5-8) secondary PCR
product with G3PDH 5’-Primer and 3’-primer.
Lanes 1, 5: 20 cycles, Lanes 2, 6: 25 cycles, Lanes 3, 7: 30 cycles,
Lanes 4, 8: 35 cycles.
Figure 4(PDF)
Results of clone PCR amplication. There was a average insert
size of 0.1-0.7 kb.
Figure 5(PDF)
Sequence of clone 10-3.
Sequencing and homology search
Automatic sequencing proved that most clones were isolated
no more than two times (Figures 5-7). BLAST homology search revealed
that some sequences were homologous with known gene fragments and
others were possibly novel genes, showing few sequence homologies
with any known sequences in the GenBank. The results of homology
search are shown in Table 1.
Figure 6(PDF)
Gene structure of clone 10-3. Both nested primer 1 and nested
primer 2R in the cDNA sequence were contained in subtracted library,
indicating that only cDNA with both 2 adaptors could be amplified by
PCR.
Table 1 Homologue
searching of sequenced cDNA fragments from SSH library
| Clone
number |
Size(bp) |
Sequence
identity |
| 10-3 |
508 |
Mus
musculus heat shock protein, 84 ku 1(Hsp84-1) |
| 2-2 |
385 |
Mus
musculus ribosomal protein S13 (Rps13) |
| 6-2 |
323 |
Mouse
mRNA for DNA helicase |
| 18-4 |
226 |
Mouse,
similar to ethanol induced 6, clone
MGG51351 |
| 11-7 |
363 |
Mouse
10 d embryo whole body cDNA, RIKEN
full-length enrich library, clone 2610102k11 |
| 16-3 |
403 |
Mouse
2 d neonate thymus thymic cells cDNA RIKEN
full-length library enriched library,
clone E430002F13 |
| 7-1 |
570 |
Mouse
chromosome 2 clone RP 24-322M5 |
| 15-7 |
460 |
Mouse
chromosome 12 clone RP23-210N16 |
| 1-8 |
200 |
EST-mouse |
| 5-8 |
159 |
EST-mouse |
| 6-8 |
216 |
EST-mouse |
| 2-6 |
61 |
Unknown |
| 1-3 |
132 |
Unknown |
| 1-6 |
241 |
Unknown |
| 16-8 |
240 |
Unknown |
Analysis
of metastasis rate of Hca-F and Hca-P cells
The lymphatic metastasis rate was 80% (8/10) and 10% (1/10),
respectively, for Hca-F cells and Hca-P cells.
Figure
7(PDF)
Result of clone 10-3 sequencing.
DISCUSSION
Cancer is the most important cause of death of humans. There is
no technique that can selectively kill cancer cells. A wide range of
Metastasis leads to the failure of treatment and the death of
patients. Therefore, investigation of cancer metastasis, particular
the mechanisms, is important in order to improve the efficacy of the
treatment. Metastasis[9] is a complex process, which is
made up of several steps. However, the molecular mechanism of
lymphatic metastasis remains poorly understood because of lack of
lymphatic metastasis models. A mouse hepatocarcinoma cell line named
Hca-F with a metastasis rate over 70% and its syngeneic cell line
named Hca-P with a metastasis rate less than 30% have been separated
from hepatocacinomas in mice. The difference in their metastasis
potential might be based on the difference in their phenotypes of
gene expression. Many different techniques could be used to isolate
differentially expressed genes, such as expressed sequencing tag
(EST)[10], serial analysis of gene expression(SAGE)[11],
subtractive hybridization, mRNA differential display (DD-RTPCR)[12],
cDNA representative difference analysis (RDA)[13],
suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH), and cDNA microarry[14].
The novel technique named
SSH[15-18] has become an ideal subtractive system that
combines high subtraction efficiency with normalized representation
of differentially expressed genes, and is based on suppression PCR
that permits exponential amplification of genes differing in
abundance, but suppresses the amplification of sequences of
identical abundance genes in two cells at the same time. Therefore,
differentially expressed genes of low abundance can be cloned, while
differentially expressed genes of high abundance are not excessively
isolated. It has been reported that SSH can achieve more than 1
000-fold enrichment of low abundance genes, but only requires 2 mg
mRNA instead of the 5-20 mg
required in other methods. This method has been successfully used to
isolate significant genes in many researches[19-23]. Von
Stein et al. observed a 94% positive rate in their study, and
suggested that confirmation of differential expression by Northern
blot analysis for each clone obtained was unnecessary[24].
In the present study, we
reported the efficiency of SSH technique in identifying
differentially expressed genes in Hca-F and Hca-P. PCR analysis
showed that the subtraction efficiency after subtractive
hybridization was effectively reduced. We constructed a subtracted
cDNA library between Hca-F cells and Hca-P cells. There were 800
positive clones in the amplified subtracted cDNA library. Random
analysis of 160 clones with PCR showed that 95% of clones contained
100-700 bp inserts. After sequencing and BLAST homology search,
these clones could be divided into three groups: known genes
preciously reported to be related to metastasis and carcinogenesis,
known genes never described to be related to metastasis and
carcinogenesis, and unknown genes. The identification of the first
group of known genes attested to the validity of this method. The
library is efficient and lays a solid foundation for searching new
lymphatic metastasis related genes.
The No. 10-3 clone
obtained in the present study showed homology with mouse heat shock
proteins(HSPs). HSPs[25-27] have been found to be
ubiquitous molecules expressed in response to stress in all living
organisms. The three important roles[28] in regard to
cancer development are regulation of apoptosis, modulation of immune
response and drug resistance. HSPs are cytoplasmic proteins that
could act as molecular chaperones for protein molecules in various
intra-cellular processes[29,30]. They are called “heat
shock proteins” since they were first discovered in cells exposed
to high temperatures. HSPs were also expressed in hepatocarcinoma (HCC)[31-34],
and up-regulated in early stage of HCC compared with noncancerous liver tissue. King et al.[33]
reported that HSPs expressed in HCC (45/58), and its expression was
stronger in HCC than in noncancerous liver tissue. HSPs were related
to metastasis[35-38].
HSP expression was found in 54 out of 86 (62.7%) gastric
carcinomas and was significantly related to more than six metastatic
lymph nodes[35]. Over expression of HSPs was related to tumor
configuration, lymph node metastasis, and lymphatic vessel invasion
in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma[36]. So far, there
has no report concerning HSP expression and lymphatic metastasis of
HCC. In the present study, we found that HSP expression was
different between mouse HCC cell lines Hca-F and Hca-P, indicating
that HSP expression might be related to HCC metastasis.
The No. 6-2 clone
obtained showed homology with mouse helicase. It has been found that
DNA helicases[39-41], because they unwound duplex DNA,
have important roles in cellular DNA events such as replication,
recombination, repair and transcription. The change in helicases
expression could be found in human carcinomas[42],
lymphoma[43], leukemia and so on. Helicases were also
related to metastasis[44]. B16-F10 and B16-BL6 are B16
mouse melanoma sublines that preferentially metastasize to the lung
and their metastasis potential is different. Helicases and ribosomal
protein (L37) showed higher expression in B16-BL6 cells than in
B16-F10 cells[45]. There has been no report on the
association between helicase up-regulation and HCC metastasis. Thus,
further investigations are required to elucidate the role of
helicase in HCC metastasis.
Besides, two clones
obtained in the present study showed homology to mouse ribosomal
protein S13 and ethanol induced 6 gene. To our knowledge, there have
been no reports on their relation to metastasis. Whether ribosomal
protein S13 and ethanol induced 6 gene can be considered as
candidate gene of metastasis related gene remains unclear. Clone
11-7 showed homology with mouse of 10-d embryo whole body cDNA
library clone 2610102k11, It is important to study the correlation
between metastasis and embryo gene expression. Clone 7-1 showed
homology with mouse mouse chromosome 2 clone RP 24-322M5 and clone
15-7 showed homology with mouse chromosome 12 clones RP23-210N16.
Whether there are candidate metastasis-related genes on chromosome 2 and chromosome 12
needs further investigation. The other three clones showed homology
with three EST sequence.
In addition to the known
genes, four clones showed no homology with any known sequences,
indicating that they were novel genes, although the full-length
sequence of these new genes and their function in lymphatic
metastasis remain to be determined.
In conclusion,
differentially expressed genes in mouse hepatocarcinoma cell lines
with different lymphatic metastasis potential can be isolated by SSH
method. Comprehensive study of these genes can help understand the
molecular mechanism of lymphatic metastasis.
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