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. 1996 Sep;74(5):780–787. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1996.436

Tyrosine phosphorylation of 100-130 kDa proteins in lung cancer correlates with poor prognosis.

M Nishimura 1, K Machida 1, M Imaizumi 1, T Abe 1, T Umeda 1, E Takeshima 1, T Watanabe 1, Y Ohnishi 1, K Takagi 1, M Hamaguchi 1
PMCID: PMC2074703  PMID: 8795582

Abstract

To search for the signalling pathways in lung cancer relevant to its aggressive behaviour, we studied tyrosine phosphorylated proteins in lung cancer cell lines and surgical specimens. We found that the profiles of protein phosphorylation were closely matched among these cell lines and cancer tissues of different histological origins, and 100-130 kDa proteins were the major components of phosphorylated proteins. In surgical specimens, approximately half of the cases showed tyrosine phosphorylation of these proteins in a tumour-specific manner, and phosphorylation of these proteins showed good correlation with the survival length of patients after operation. By immunoprecipitation with specific antibodies, we found that p125FAK, p120 and beta-catenin were the major components of tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins in the surgical specimens. These results suggest that tyrosine phosphorylation of these proteins may play a role in tumour relapse and is available as a clinical marker.

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