Transcriptional profiling of human malignant mesethelioma cells that have constitutively treated with sialic acid binding lectin from Rana catesbeiana (cSBL)

cSBL is a multifunctional protein that has lectin and ribonuclease activity, and show selective cytotoxicity against many kinds of cancer cells.For further understanding anti-tumor effects of cSBL, we treated cSBL-sensitive malignant mesothelioma H28 cells with cSBL consecutively, and established cSBL-resistant (cSR) cells. We have established 5 resistant clones and using two clones that show higher resistant rates, microarray analysis was performed to identify significant altered gene expression upon cSBL-sensitive and -cSR cell lines. The global gene expression analysis using parental (cSBL-sensitive) and cSBL-resistant malignant mesothelioma H28 cell lines.