Gastric cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Advances in diagnostic and treatment technologies have enabled us to offer excellent long-term survival results for early gastric cancer, but prognosis of advanced gastric cance...
Gastric cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Advances in diagnostic and treatment technologies have enabled us to offer excellent long-term survival results for early gastric cancer, but prognosis of advanced gastric cancer still remains poor. The aim of this work was to figure out the protein components that are differentially expressed in stomach cancer tissues to develop the protein candidates for tumor marker. In this study, we have analyzed the proteomes of 152 stomach cancer tissue samples and compared with those of noncancerous tissues of the same patients. Human stomach tissue samples were prepared from resection materials of gastric cancer patients. The proteins of stomach tissues were analyzed by two-dimensional electrophoresis, stained with silver nitrate and the images were analyzed with the aid of PDQuest^(TM). Of the 152 samples that gave readable gel image, 11 samples were positive for overexpression (with a cutoff value of 3.0) of the spot 3211 and 17 samples were positive for overexpression of the spot 3233. The spot was excised from preparative gels, digested by trypsin, and subjected to peptide mass fingerprinting. The spot was identified to be Rho GDP dissociation inhibitor 1 and 2, with the sequence coverage of 28% and 29%, respectively. In the previous studies reported, RhoGDI has been associated with tumor cell invasion in ovarian cancer and RhoGDI was overexpressed in breast cancer. We first found that RhoGDI-1 was significantly overexpressed in human stomach cancer.