The levels of expression of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase Cs (PLCs) were examined in a series of primary human colon carcinomas and in eight colon carcinoma cell lines by using monoclonal antibodies and cDNA probes for PLC gamma 1, PLC beta 1, and PLC delta 1. Western and northern blot analyses of PLC gamma 1 revealed elevated expression of this isozyme at both the protein and mRNA levels in most tumors when compared with paired adjacent normal mucosa samples (in 11 of 13 pairs in the western blots and 8 of 9 pairs in the northern blots). On the other hand, decreased levels of the PLC delta 1 protein were seen in most colon carcinomas (12 of 13 paired samples). The levels of PLC beta 1 protein were too low to detect possible differences between the carcinoma and normal mucosa samples. Relatively high expression of PLC gamma 1 was found in almost all of the eight human colon carcinoma cell lines at both the protein and mRNA levels. Only weak expression of PLC beta 1 was detected in these cell lines, by both western and northern blot analyses, and PLC delta 1 protein was not detected in any of the carcinoma cell lines. These findings provide evidence that colon carcinomas display altered expression of individual isoforms of PLCs and suggest that increased expression of PLC gamma 1 may play an important role in colon carcinogenesis.

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