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. 2003 Mar;94(3):259-62.
doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01430.x.

Glypican-3 is overexpressed in human hepatocellular carcinoma

Young Kwan Sung  1 , Sun Young Hwang, Mi Kyung Park, Mohammad Farooq, In Sook Han, Han Ik Bae, Jung-Chul Kim, Moonkyu Kim
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Glypican-3 is overexpressed in human hepatocellular carcinoma

Young Kwan Sung et al. Cancer Sci. 2003 Mar.

Abstract

To identify candidate genes that could be used as diagnostic and therapeutic targets for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we searched for the genes that are overexpressed in HCC by combining representational difference analysis and microarray. Genes such as glypican-3 (GPC3), insulin-like growth factor 2, long-chain fatty-acid-coenzyme A ligase 4, farnesyl diphosphate synthase were frequently identified in our screening. Northern blot analysis with these four genes confirmed their overexpression in HCC. Among them we found that GPC3 transcript is upregulated in six out of seven cases of HCC. Immunoblot and immunohistochemical staining using polyclonal anti-GPC3 antibodies further confirmed that GPC3 protein is indeed increased in HCC tumor samples. We also found that GPC3 is secreted into culture media from cell lines derived from HCC. We conclude that GPC3 is a good molecular marker for HCC.

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