Sonja M S Uthoff, Michael Duchrow, Mirko H H Schmidt, Rainer Broll, Hans-Peter Bruch, Martin W Strik, Susan Galandiuk
We wished to demonstrate vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) transcript polymorphism in human colon cancer. RNA was extracted from 25 primary human colorectal adenocarcinomas followed by VEGF transcript amplification, fragment elution, subcloning, positive selection via insert analysis and sequencing. Four distinct splice variants were consistently expressed in cancer, including VEGF121, VEGF165, VEGF189 and the newly identified truncated splice variant VEGF145. Six novel mutations were characterized, all of which occurred within the conserved expression site of the gene and which consequently were present in all splice forms...
September 1, 2002: International Journal of Cancer. Journal International du Cancer