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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5489
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-10-11
pubmed:abstractText
Rearrangements involving the RET gene are common in radiation-associated papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). The RET/PTC1 type of rearrangement is an inversion of chromosome 10 mediated by illegitimate recombination between the RET and the H4 genes, which are 30 megabases apart. Here we ask whether despite the great linear distance between them, RET and H4 recombination might be promoted by their proximity in the nucleus. We used two-color fluorescence in situ hybridization and three-dimensional microscopy to map the positions of the RET and H4 loci within interphase nuclei. At least one pair of RET and H4 was juxtaposed in 35% of normal human thyroid cells and in 21% of peripheral blood lymphocytes, but only in 6% of normal mammary epithelial cells. Spatial contiguity of RET and H4 may provide a structural basis for generation of RET/PTC1 rearrangement by allowing a single radiation track to produce a double-strand break in each gene at the same site in the nucleus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CCDC6 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cytoskeletal Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Drosophila Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oncogene Proteins, Fusion, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ret oncogene protein, Drosophila, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/ret-PTC fusion oncoproteins, human
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
290
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
138-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Breast, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Chromosome Inversion, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Cytoskeletal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Gene Rearrangement, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Interphase, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Oncogene Proteins, Fusion, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Recombination, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Thyroid Gland, pubmed-meshheading:11021799-Thyroid Neoplasms
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Proximity of chromosomal loci that participate in radiation-induced rearrangements in human cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't