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the positive aspects of this sample is that they are both renewable and limitless self-<br />

replicat<strong>in</strong>g sources which provide large quantities of biological samples for proteomic<br />

technique. Another advantage is the predisposition of cancer cell l<strong>in</strong>e towards the gene<br />

manipulation. An additional benefit of them is their low cost, because they are easily<br />

acquired by us<strong>in</strong>g the cell culture. Comb<strong>in</strong>ation of all the benefits resulted <strong>in</strong><br />

tremendous amount of cell l<strong>in</strong>e utilized cl<strong>in</strong>ical research. Although there are many<br />

advantages of cell l<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> the usage of proteomics, of course they are not without<br />

drawbacks. The most significant disadvantage is that the possibility of subpopulation<br />

formation on account of the phenotypic alterations <strong>in</strong> cell culture.<br />

Human tissues are another biological source which can be <strong>applied</strong> to cancer<br />

<strong>in</strong>vestigations by the method of proteomics. The evaluation of chang<strong>in</strong>g prote<strong>in</strong> levels<br />

lets broaden our horizon for both disease progression and new therapeutic options.<br />

Actually, human tissue have the high physiological/pathological relevance as a positive<br />

feature, unfortunately, the study of human tissues have the higher cost as compared to<br />

cancer cell l<strong>in</strong>e and also they have limited availability.<br />

One of the most studied biological samples <strong>in</strong> cancer research is body fluids,<br />

such as ur<strong>in</strong>e, saliva and plasma, s<strong>in</strong>ce they have good advantages like low cost, easy to<br />

obta<strong>in</strong> from patient, high physiological and pathological relevance. However,<br />

characteriz<strong>in</strong>g the proteome of that fluid presents significant challenges due to extreme<br />

complexity and large dynamic range <strong>in</strong> prote<strong>in</strong> concentrations compared to cell l<strong>in</strong>es<br />

and tissues for the study of proteomics research (Lee et al., 2006).<br />

2.1.3. Exploitation of Prote<strong>in</strong> Profil<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> MM<br />

Because malignant plasma cells lose regulation of growth controll<strong>in</strong>g<br />

mechanisms, <strong>in</strong> most cases signal<strong>in</strong>g pathways <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g numerous prote<strong>in</strong>s are altered,<br />

as mentioned before. When this is taken <strong>in</strong>to account, not surpris<strong>in</strong>gly, expression<br />

patterns of growth-<strong>in</strong>duc<strong>in</strong>g and growth-suppress<strong>in</strong>g genes change with malignant<br />

transformation (Bártek et al., 1991). Therefore, monitor<strong>in</strong>g these <strong>changes</strong> is of great<br />

importance for understand<strong>in</strong>g carc<strong>in</strong>ogenesis, identify<strong>in</strong>g diagnostic markers, and<br />

develop<strong>in</strong>g new therapeutics for MM. And also it is very significant for the usage of<br />

Bortezomib <strong>in</strong> other cancer type therapies. The most widely used methods for this<br />

<strong>in</strong>volve exam<strong>in</strong>ation of differential gene expression by assess<strong>in</strong>g the mRNA levels <strong>in</strong><br />

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