Publication Date:
2014-03-01
Description:
Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FL-HCC) is a rare liver tumor affecting adolescents and young adults with no history of primary liver disease or cirrhosis. We identified a chimeric transcript that is expressed in FL-HCC but not in adjacent normal liver and that arises as the result of a ~400-kilobase deletion on chromosome 19. The chimeric RNA is predicted to code for a protein containing the amino-terminal domain of DNAJB1, a homolog of the molecular chaperone DNAJ, fused in frame with PRKACA, the catalytic domain of protein kinase A. Immunoprecipitation and Western blot analyses confirmed that the chimeric protein is expressed in tumor tissue, and a cell culture assay indicated that it retains kinase activity. Evidence supporting the presence of the DNAJB1-PRKACA chimeric transcript in 100% of the FL-HCCs examined (15/15) suggests that this genetic alteration contributes to tumor pathogenesis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286414/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286414/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Honeyman, Joshua N -- Simon, Elana P -- Robine, Nicolas -- Chiaroni-Clarke, Rachel -- Darcy, David G -- Lim, Irene Isabel P -- Gleason, Caroline E -- Murphy, Jennifer M -- Rosenberg, Brad R -- Teegan, Lydia -- Takacs, Constantin N -- Botero, Sergio -- Belote, Rachel -- Germer, Soren -- Emde, Anne-Katrin -- Vacic, Vladimir -- Bhanot, Umesh -- LaQuaglia, Michael P -- Simon, Sanford M -- 2UL1RR024143/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR024143/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- UL1 TR000043/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Feb 28;343(6174):1010-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1249484.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24578576" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/enzymology/*genetics
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Chromosome Deletion
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19/genetics
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Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunits/chemistry/*genetics
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Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
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HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins/chemistry/*genetics
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Humans
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Liver Neoplasms/enzymology/*genetics
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Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/*genetics
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Protein Multimerization
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Transcription, Genetic
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Tumor Cells, Cultured
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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