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Hammerhead-type ribozymes are often utilized to suppress the expression of target genes. We evaluated the efficacy of an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) hammerhead-type ribozyme against GUC at exon 1 of the VEGF gene in a cell-free system (in vitro) as well as in the hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HLF (in vivo). The anti-VEGF ribozyme (alphaVRz) specifically cleaved synthetic VEGF RNA substrate, but not other triplet sequences of VEGF RNA substrate in vitro. When the alphaVRz was introduced into HLF cells, the ribozyme suppressed not only VEGF mRNA level but also that of VEGF protein. These results suggest that this ribozyme selectively inhibits VEGF gene expression in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells.

Original publication

DOI

10.3892/ijo.17.3.495

Type

Journal article

Journal

Int J Oncol

Publication Date

09/2000

Volume

17

Pages

495 - 499

Keywords

Base Sequence, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Codon, Depression, Chemical, Endothelial Growth Factors, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Humans, Liver Neoplasms, Lymphokines, Molecular Sequence Data, Nucleic Acid Conformation, RNA, Catalytic, Substrate Specificity, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors