| Clinics and Pathology |
| Disease | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors |
| Clinics | rare soft tissue tumour found in children and young adults |
| Pathology | spindle cell proliferation with myofibroblastic differenciation and an inflammatory infiltrate |
| Cytogenetics | The translocation was found complex: t(2;11;2)(p23;p15;q31) |
| Prognosis | low malignant potential and good prognosis |
| Genes involved and Proteins |
| Gene Name | ALK |
| Location | 2p23 |
| Protein | 1620 amino acids; 177 kDa; glycoprotein (200 kDa mature protein) ; membrane associated tyrosine kinase receptor |
| Gene Name | CARS |
| Location | 11p15 |
| Protein | 748 amino acids, 85 kDa. Forms homodimers |
| Result of the chromosomal anomaly |
| Hybrid Gene | |
| Description | 5' CARS - 3' ALK |
| Fusion Protein | |
| Description | 606 N-term amino acid from CARS, fused to the 562 C-term amino acids from ALK (i.e. the entire cytoplasmic portion of ALK with the tyrosine kinase domain). |
| Bibliography |
| Recurrent involvement of 2p23 in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors. |
| Griffin CA, Hawkins AL, Dvorak C, Henkle C, Ellingham T, Perlman EJ. |
| Cancer Res 1999, 59: 2776-2780. |
| Aberrant ALK tyrosine kinase signaling. Different cellular lineages, common oncogen,ic mechanims? |
| Ladanyi M. |
| Am J Pathol 2000; 157: 341-345. |
| Identification of novel fusion partners of ALK, the anaplastic lymphoma kinase, in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. |
| Cools J, Wlodarska I, Somers R, Mentens N, Pedeutour F, Maes B, De Wolf-Peeters C, Pauwels P, Hagemeijer A, Marynen P. |
| Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2002; 34: 354-362. |
| PMID 12112524 |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic search in PubMed |
| Contributor(s) |
| Written | 08-2003 | Jean-Loup Huret |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Huret JL . t(2;11)(p23;p15). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. August 2003 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Tumors/t0211p23p15ID5213.html |
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