Overexpression of meloe cDNA in the melanocytic lineage.

<p>Eight melanocyte samples, twelve melanoma, three colon cancer (CC), four mesothelioma, two lung cancer (LC), one renal carcinoma (RC), one breast cancer (BC) and one neuroblastoma (NB) cell lines were tested by qPCR for the expression of <i>meloe</i>. RPLPO and cyclophilin-A gene expression were used as internal controls. The relative expression of <i>meloe</i> was calculated after normalization on the efficiency of PCR reaction and the mean expression of these two housekeeping genes, reported to its normalized expression in a mixture of eight distinct melanocyte samples. Results are from three independent experiments.