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2 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3 Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Departments of 1 Internal Medicine, 4 Pathology, and 6 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5 Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201
Although epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays a key role in regulating cell proliferation, differentiation, and transformation in many tissues, little is known about the factor(s) that may modulate its function. We have isolated a cDNA clone from the rat gastroduodenal mucosa whose full length revealed 1,958 bp that contained 227 bp of 5'-untranslated region (UTR) and an open-reading frame encoding 479 amino acids, followed by 290 bp of 3'-UTR. It showed ~85% nucleotide homology to the external domain of the rat EGFR. We refer to the product of the newly isolated cDNA as EGFR-related protein (ERRP). In Northern blot analysis with poly(A)+ RNA from different rat tissues, ERRP cDNA hybridized to several mRNA transcripts with the strongest reaction noted with a transcript of ~2 kb. Maximal expression of the 2-kb mRNA transcript was observed in the small intestine, followed by colon, liver, gastric mucosa, and other tissues. Transfection of ERRP cDNA into a colon cancer cell line, HCT116, resulted in a marked reduction in proliferation in monolayer and colony formation in soft agar compared with the vector-transfected controls. In another colon cancer cell line, Caco-2, with a tetracycline-regulated promoter system, induction of ERRP expression in the absence of doxycycline was associated with a marked reduction in EGFR activation and proliferation. We conclude that the ERRP cDNA may represent a new member of the EGFR gene family and that ERRP plays a role in regulating cell proliferation by modulating the function of EGFR.
cell proliferation; epidermal growth factor receptor; complementary deoxyribonucleic acid; epidermal growth factor receptor-related protein
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