A

Adenine

aa

Amino acid

ADC

Adenocarcinoma

APS

Ammonium Persulphate

Asp

Asparagine

ATCC

American Type Culture Collection

bp

Base pair

BSA

Bovine Serum Albumine

C

Cytosine

Ca

Carcinoma

cDNA

Complementary DNA

CIAP

Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase

Da

Dalton

DABCO

1,4-Diazabicyclo (2,2,2)-octane

DAPI

4,6-Diamidino-2-phenylindole hydrochloride

DEPC

Diethylpyrocarbonate

DMEM

Dulbecco Modified Eagle’s Medium

DMF

Dimethylformamide

DMSO

Dimethyl Sulfoxide

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

dNTP

Deoxyribonucleoside Triphosphate

DTT

Dithiothreitol

FCS

Fetal Calf Serum

EB

Elution Buffer

E.coli

Escherichia coli

EDTA

Ethylendiamin-tetra-acetate

EGF

Epidermal Growth Factor

EGFP

Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein

ER

Oestrogen Receptor

ERBB

Avian erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene

FITC

Fluorescein Isothiocyanate

G

Guanine

Glu

Glutamine

Gly

Glycine

h

Hour

IPTG

Isopropyl-I-thio-β-D-galactopyranoside

KLH

Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin

l

Liter

L-15

Leibovitz-15

LB

Luria-Bertani

LAR II

Luciferase Assay Reagent II

LCLC

Large Cell Lung Carcinoma

M

Molar

mM

Milimol

min

Minute

ml

Mililiter

MOPS

3-(N-Morpholino)-propanylsulfon acid

NFĸB

Nuclear factor ĸB

NSCLC

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

nt

Nucleotide

OD

Optical Density

ORF

Open Reading Frame

PAGE

Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

PBS

Phosphate Buffered Saline

PCR

Polymerase Chain Reaction

PKC

Protein Kinase C

PMA

Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate

PMSF

Phenyl Methyl-Sulfonyl Fluoride

PR

Progesteron

rpm

Rotations per minute

RPMI

Rosewell Park Memorial Institute

RTK

Receptor tyrosine kinase

SCC

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

SCLC

Small Cell Lung Carcinoma

SDS

Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate

sec

Second

Ser

Serine

SSC

Sodium chloride-Sodium Citrate

T

Thymine

Ta

Annealing Temperature

TBE

Tris-Boric acid-EDTA

TBST

Tris-Buffered Saline Tween-20

TEMED

N,N,N’,N’-Tetramethylethylendiamine

TGF-α

Transforming Growth Factor-α

Tm

Melting Temperature

Tris

Tris-(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethan

U

Unit

UTR

Untranslated region

V

Volt

X-gal

5-bromo, 4-chloro-3-indol-β-D-galactopyranoside

μl

Microliter

μM

Micromolar