NUCLEOLIN and non-small cell lung carcinoma: We first examined the relative expression of L1-ORF1p and NCL in four NSCLC cell lines (NCI-H460, NCI-H520, NCI-H1299, and A549), compared to the non-malignant BEAS-2B cell line and its ras-transformed counterpart, BZR cells (Fig. 1A).