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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6662
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-1-15
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Basal-cell carcinomas (BCCs) are the commonest human cancer. Insight into their genesis came from identification of mutations in the PATCHED gene (PTCH) in patients with the basal-cell nevus syndrome, a hereditary disease characterized by multiple BCCs and by developmental abnormalities. The binding of Sonic hedgehog (SHH) to its receptor, PTCH, is thought to prevent normal inhibition by PTCH of Smoothened (SMO), a seven-span transmembrane protein. According to this model, the inhibition of SMO signalling is relieved following mutational inactivation of PTCH in basal-cell nevus syndrome. We report here the identification of activating somatic missense mutations in the SMO gene itself in sporadic BCCs from three patients. Mutant SMO, unlike wild type, can cooperate with adenovirus E1A to transform rat embryonic fibroblast cells in culture. Furthermore, skin abnormalities similar to BCCs developed in transgenic murine skin overexpressing mutant SMO. These findings support the role of SMO as a signalling component of the SHH-receptor complex and provide direct evidence that mutated SMO can function as an oncogene in BCCs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adenovirus E1A Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hedgehog Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Intracellular Signaling Peptides..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Cell Surface, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SHH protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SMO protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Smo protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Trans-Activators, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/patched receptors
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
391
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
90-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Adenovirus E1A Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Carcinoma, Basal Cell, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Hedgehog Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Oncogenes, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Receptors, Cell Surface, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Skin Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Trans-Activators, pubmed-meshheading:9422511-Transfection
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Activating Smoothened mutations in sporadic basal-cell carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Dermatology, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, 94110, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't