NOVEL USE OF THE LOC284422 GENE

摘要

The present invention provides a composition for cancer diagnosis or anti-cancer drug screening containing the LOC284422 gene or an antibody against the proteins expressed by LOC284422 gene, to a cancer treatment composition containing an inhibitor for said gene, an inhibitor for the proteins expressed by said gene, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and to a kit for cancer diagnosis containing the LOC284422 gene or one or more of the proteins expressed by the LOC284422 gene. The LOC284422 gene of the present invention is largely expressed in cancer cells, and increases the growth speed of normal cells. Therefore, the inhibition of the expression of this gene leads to the inhibition of the growth of cancer cells. Accordingly, the LOC284422 gene can be used as a target gene for the diagnosis of therapeutic agents for different types of cancer.