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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-6-21
pubmed:abstractText
In papillary thyroid carcinomas, the genes for receptor-type tyrosine kinase, RET or TRKA, are sometimes rearranged, resulting in fusion of its tyrosine kinase domain to 5' portions of several activating genes. In a papillary thyroid carcinoma, we identified a novel gene (ELKS), the 5' portion of which is fused to the RET gene by gene rearrangement due to the translocation t(10;12)(q11;p13). Subsequent cloning of the ELKS cDNA revealed that ELKS encodes a novel 948 amino acid peptide and is expressed ubiquitously in human tissues. The presence of multiple coiled-coil domains in the ELKS product suggests that the ELKS protein forms dimers. Since the tyrosine kinase of RET is activated by dimerization that occurs when its ligands bind to the receptor, fusion of RET with the 5' dimerization domains of ELKS would activate its cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase constitutively in papillary thyroid carcinomas.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1045-2257
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
97-103
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Carcinoma, Papillary, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Dimerization, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Thyroid Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:10337992-Translocation, Genetic
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Fusion of a novel gene, ELKS, to RET due to translocation t(10;12)(q11;p13) in a papillary thyroid carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Gerontology, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't