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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-8-3
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The Lutheran (LU) glycoprotein was shown to be a specific marker of brain capillary endothelium, which forms the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in vivo. A 1.5 kb partial cDNA encoding the bovine LU was isolated from a bovine brain capillary cDNA library. Sequence analysis showed that the bovine and human LU had a 75% and 79% identity in the amino acid and nucleotide sequences, respectively. Northern blot analysis demonstrated a very high level of gene expression of the LU transcript in freshly isolated bovine brain capillaries, but no measurable LU mRNA in whole bovine brain. The high level of LU gene expression was maintained when bovine brain capillary endothelium was grown in tissue culture. Because many BBB specific genes are downregulated in tissue culture and in brain tumors, the expression of the LU mRNA and immunoactive LU protein was investigated in primary and metastatic human brain tumors. Immunocytochemistry of fresh frozen human brain and human brain tumors showed abundant immunostaining of brain capillary endothelium. Northern blot analysis showed the presence of LU transcripts in a panel of primary and metastatic human brain tumors. These studies demonstrated that the LU glycoprotein was a novel new marker of the BBB, and unlike other BBB specific genes, there was a persistent gene expression of the LU glycoprotein both in brain capillary endothelial cells grown in culture and in the endothelium of capillaries perfusing human brain cancer.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0271-678X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1096-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Blood-Brain Barrier, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Brain Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Capillaries, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Cell Adhesion Molecules, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Lutheran Blood-Group System, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10908043-Reference Values
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Selective Lutheran glycoprotein gene expression at the blood-brain barrier in normal brain and in human brain tumors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.