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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-18
pubmed:abstractText
A subset of childhood and young adult renal cell carcinomas displays a recurrent translocation t(X;17)(p11;q25) as the sole cytogenetic abnormality. In two young girls, we demonstrate that this translocation results in the fusion of a novel gene, designated RCC17, at chromosome 17q25, to the transcription factor TFE3 located on the Xp11 chromosomal region. In both cases, the t(X;17) fuses the NH(2)-terminal region of RCC17 to the COOH-terminal part of TFE3 including the basic helix-loop-helix DNA-binding domain and the leucine zipper dimerization domain. The reciprocal fusion transcript TFE3/RCC17 is also expressed. RCC17 encodes a putative protein of 553 amino acids. It is ubiquitously expressed in normal adult tissues. No significant similarity was found with other fusion partners of TFE3 or with any relevant functional protein domains, precluding informed speculation about the normal function of this gene.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
61
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4130-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Artificial Gene Fusion, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Carcinoma, Papillary, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Carcinoma, Renal Cell, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Gene Order, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Kidney Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-Translocation, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11358836-X Chromosome
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Fusion of a novel gene, RCC17, to the TFE3 gene in t(X;17)(p11.2;q25.3)-bearing papillary renal cell carcinomas.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Genetics and Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Faculty of Medicine, Free University of Brussels, 1070 Brussels, Belgium. pheimann@ulb.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't