Table 2.

Candidate Glioblastoma Tumor Markers

Gene name (synonym) Symbol (GenBank no.) Cellular location Primer pairs Ta°C[i]
Sec61 gamma SEC61G (AF054184)ER-Golgi (Greenfield and High 1999)TTA CTT TAA TTT AGA AAT AG/ATC AGG TAA TGC AGT TTG TT50
Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase NNMT (U08021)Cytoplasm (Aksoy et al. 1994)CTG CCT AGA CGG TGT GAA G/AGT GGC TGG CTC TGA GTC AC55
ATP-binding cassette, subfamily C Member 3 (MLP2, MRP3, CMOAT2) ABCC3 (AB010887)Membrane (Kiuchi et al. 1998)CAT CGA CCT GGA GAC TGA CAA C/ CCA TTC TGC GGA CAT ATT TG58
Neuromedin B (NMB) NMB (M21551)Secreted (Krane et al. 1988)AGC CAG CAA GAT CCG AGT G/GCA CAA TCT AAG CCA CGC TG50
Annexin A1 (lipocortin 1, LPC1) ANXA1 (X05908)Membrane (Wallner et al. 1986)GCA GGC CTG GTT TAT TGA AA/GGT TGC TTC ATC CAC ACC TT53
SPARC: secreted protein, acidic, cysteine-rich (osteonectin) SPARC (J03040)Secreted (Lane and Sage 1994)AGG TCA CAG GTC TCG AAA A/AGA GGT GGT GGA AGA AAC TG53
Glycoprotein (transmembrane) nmb GPNMB (X76534)Membrane (Weterman et al. 1995)AAC TCT ACC CAG TGT GGA AG/TTG AGG AAG TGG CTA GGA TC55

[i] Ta refers to the annealing temperature used for fluorescent-PCR amplification.