| General information | Literature | Expression | Regulation | Mutation | Interaction |
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Basic Information |
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Gene ID | 347252 |
Name | IGFBPL1 |
Synonymous | IGFBP-RP4|IGFBPRP4|bA113O24.1;insulin-like growth factor binding protein-like 1;IGFBPL1;insulin-like growth factor binding protein-like 1 |
Definition | IGFBP-related protein 10|insulin-like growth factor binding protein related protein 4|insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-like 1|insulin-like growth factor-binding-related protein 4 |
Position | 9p13.1 |
Gene type | protein-coding |
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Abstract |
| Identification of a novel insulin-like growth factor binding protein gene homologue with tumor suppressor like properties. | Here we report the identification of a new insulin-like growth factor binding protein homologue, provisionally designated insulin-like growth factor binding related protein-4 (IGFBP-rP4). IGFBP-rP4 was found to be most closely related to IGFBP-7 with 52% amino acid homology and 43% amino acid identity, and shares a similar domain structure. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR expression analysis demonstrated a pattern of downregulation of this gene in multiple tumor samples including lung and colon cancer, compared to matched adjacent normal tissue. Western blotting revealed a protein of approximately 38kDa expressed in both the cell pellet and secreted into the supernatant of transiently transfected Cos-7 cells. Cos-7 supernatants containing IGFBP-RP4 protein were observed to suppress the growth of HeLa cells in culture compared to vector controls. IGFBP-RP4 directly transiently transfected into HeLa cells also further confirmed the growth suppressive properties of this protein. Together these data suggest that IGFBP-RP4 may be a novel putative tumor suppressor protein. |