Abstract
Axin, an important regulator of β-catenin, is frequently mutated in human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), and transduction of the wild-type Axin gene (AXIN1) induces apoptosis in HCC cells as well as in colon cancer cells. To investigate the detailed biological function of Axin, we searched on a cDNA microarray for genes whose expression was altered by transfer of wild-type AXIN1 into colon-cancer cell line LoVo. Among the genes showing altered expression, we focused on one, termed AXUD1 (AXIN1 up-regulated1), that revealed enhanced expression in response to exogeneously expressed AXIN1 but not to LacZ, a control gene. The AXUD1 gene consists of five exons and encodes a transcript with an open reading frame of 1767 bp. A 3.2-kb transcript of AXUD1 was expressed in all human tissues examined, most abundantly in lung, placenta, skeletal muscle, pancreas and leukocyte. By radiation-hybrid mapping we assigned its chromosomal location at 3p22, a region where frequent loss of heterozygosity has been reported in lung, renal, prostate, breast and cervical cancers. AXUD1 was frequently down-regulated in lung, kidney, liver and colon cancers compared with their corresponding normal tissues, suggesting that AXUD1 may have a tumor-suppressor function in those organs.
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We are grateful to Tae Makino for her technical assistance. This work was supported by a ‘Research for the Future’ Program Grant (96L00102) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Ishiguro, H., Tsunoda, T., Tanaka, T. et al. Identification of AXUD1, a novel human gene induced by AXIN1 and its reduced expression in human carcinomas of the lung, liver, colon and kidney. Oncogene 20, 5062–5066 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1204603
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