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Rebeca Hilario
mRNA expression profiles obtained from microdissected pancreatic cancer cells can predict patient survival
// Ana-Barbara Garcia-Garcia 1, 2, * , M. Carmen Gomez-Mateo 3, 7, * , Rebeca Hilario 2 , Pilar Rentero-Garrido 2 , Alvaro Martinez-Domenech 4 , Veronica Gonzalez-Albert 2 , Andres Cervantes 5 , Pablo Marin-Garcia 6 , Felipe Javier Chaves 1, 2 , Antonio Ferrandez-Izquierdo 3 and Luis Sabater 4 1 CIBER of Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (CIBERDEM), Madrid, Spain 2 Unidad de Genomica y Diagnostico Genetico. Fundacion Investigacion Clinico de Valencia, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Clinico de Valencia (INCLIVA), Valencia, Spain 3 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Odontology, University of Valencia and Clinical Hospital of Valencia, and Instituto de Investigacio…
cDNA Cloning and Functional Expression of Jerdostatin, a Novel RTS-disintegrin from Trimeresurus jerdonii and a Specific Antagonist of the α1β1 Integrin
Jerdostatin represents a novel RTS-containing short disintegrin cloned by reverse transcriptase-PCR from the venom gland mRNA of the Chinese Jerdons pit viper Trimeresurus jerdonii. The jerdostatins precursor cDNA contained a 333-bp open reading frame encoding a signal peptide, a pre-peptide, and a 43-amino acid disintegrin domain, whose amino acid sequence displayed 80% identity with that of the KTS-disintegrins obtustatin and viperistatin. The jerdostatin cDNA structure represents the first complete open reading frame of a short disintegrin and points to the emergence of jerdostatin from a short-coding gene. The different residues between jerdostatin and obtustatin/viperistatin are segreg…