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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
17
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-28
pubmed:abstractText
Lipoblastomas are pediatric neoplasms resulting from transformation of adipocytes. These benign tumors are typically composed of adipose cells in different stages of maturation within a variably myxoid matrix, and they contain clonal rearrangements of chromosome band 8q12. Because lipoblastomas resemble embryonic adipose tissue, characterization of their transforming mechanisms might reveal biological pathways in physiological adipogenesis. Herein, we demonstrate that lipoblastoma chromosome 8q12 rearrangements bring about promoter-swapping events in the PLAG1 oncqgene. We show that the hyaluronic acid synthase 2 (HAS2) or collagen 1 alpha 2 (COL1A2) gene promoter regions are fused to the entire PLAG1 coding sequence in each of four lipoblastomas. PLAG1 is a developmentally regulated zinc finger gene whose tumorigenic function has been shown previously only in epithelial salivary gland cells. Our findings reveal that PLAG1 activation, presumably resulting from transcriptional up-regulation, is a central oncogenic event in lipoblastoma.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
60
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4869-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Adipose Tissue, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Child, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Chromosome Breakage, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Collagen, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Gene Amplification, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Gene Rearrangement, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Glucuronosyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Lipoma, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Mesoderm, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Oncogene Proteins, Fusion, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Oncogenes, pubmed-meshheading:10987300-Promoter Regions, Genetic
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
PLAG1 fusion oncogenes in lipoblastoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.