Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory
General information | Expression | Regulation | Mutation | Interaction

Basic Information

Gene ID

10904

Name

BLCAP

Synonymous

BC10;bladder cancer associated protein;BLCAP;bladder cancer associated protein

Definition

bladder cancer 10 kDa protein|bladder cancer related protein (10kD)|bladder cancer-associated protein

Position

20q11.23

Gene type

protein-coding

Source

Count: 1; Generif

Sentence

Abstract

might be a potential tumor suppressor gene in cervical carcinoma.

Our previous study has suggested thatthe bladder cancer-associated protein gene (BLCAP) was among the differentially expressed genes in cervical cancer. We confirm here that BLCAP is expressed in all noncancerous cervical tissues (10/10), but it is greatly lost in primary cervical cancer tissue (31/39). In order to further investigate the functional roles of BLCAP, we stably transfected BLCAP cDNA into HeLa cells. The HeLa cells expressing BLCAP show reduced cell growth and clone genicity compared to the vector-transfected cognate cells. BLCAP expression in HeLa cells leads to growth arrest and significantly enhanced apoptosis in vitro and reduced tumor formation in vivo. Thus, BLCAP might be a potential tumor suppressor gene in cervical carcinoma.CI - Copyright 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel.

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