To further corroborate the increased sialylation of these cancer markers, equal amounts of immunoprecipitated MUC1 and EGFR were precipitated with MAL-I and subjected to Western blot analysis followed by immunodetection that again showed that the malignant cells migrated slower during SDS-PAGE consistent with increased sialylation (DIB Fig. 2B). The gene discussed is EGFR; the disease is cancer.