
| Written | 2003-02 | Jean-Loup Huret, Sylvie Senon |
| Genetics, Dept Medical Information, University of Poitiers, CHU Poitiers Hospital, F-86021 Poitiers, France |
| Identity |
| Other alias | |
| HGNC (Hugo) | BCL9 |
| LocusID (NCBI) | 607 |
| Atlas_Id | 466 |
| Location | 1q21.2 [Link to chromosome band 1q21] |
| Location_base_pair | Starts at 147541501 and ends at 147626219 bp from pter ( according to hg19-Feb_2009) [Mapping BCL9.png] |
| Fusion genes (updated 2016) | BCL9 (1q21.2) / IGH (14q32.33) | BCL9 (1q21.2) / IGL (22q11.22) | BCL9 (1q21.2) / IVL (1q21.3) |
| BCL9 (1q21.2) / Ig () | BCL9 (1q21.2) / Immunoglobulin () | BCL9 (1q21.2) / MRPL36 (5p15.33) | |
| BCL9 (1q21.2) / RASAL2 (1q25.2) | BCL9 (1q21.2) / SMCP (1q21.3) | BCL9 (1q21.2) / VPREB1 (22q11.22) | |
| IGH (14q32.33) / BCL9 (1q21.2) | IGL (22q11.22) / BCL9 (1q21.2) | MRPL36 (5p15.33) / BCL9 (1q21.2) | |
| UAP1 (1q23.3) / BCL9 (1q21.2) |
| DNA/RNA |
| Description | 10 exons spanning 85 kb. |
| Transcription | transcripts of 1.6, 4.2, and 6.3 kb. |
| Protein |
| Description | 1426 amino acids, 149 kDa. |
| Expression | wide |
| Function | Binds to beta-catenin required for Wnt signal transduction |
| Homology | drosophila segment polarity gene legless, encoding wingless-armadillo (WNT - beta-catenin) signaling molecule |
| Implicated in |
| Note | |
| Entity | t(1;14)(q21;q32) and t(1;22)(q21;q11) |
| Disease | acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non Hodgkin lymphoma |
| Hybrid/Mutated Gene | BCL9 is juxtaposed either with the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus IgH (14q32) or the lambda light-chain locus Igl (22q11) |
| Bibliography |
| Wnt/wingless signaling requires BCL9/legless-mediated recruitment of pygopus to the nuclear beta-catenin-TCF complex. |
| Kramps T, Peter O, Brunner E, Nellen D, Froesch B, Chatterjee S, Murone M, Züllig S, Basler K |
| Cell. 2002 ; 109 (1) : 47-60. |
| PMID 11955446 |
| Molecular cloning of translocation t(1;14)(q21;q32) defines a novel gene (BCL9) at chromosome 1q21. |
| Willis TG, Zalcberg IR, Coignet LJ, Wlodarska I, Stul M, Jadayel DM, Bastard C, Treleaven JG, Catovsky D, Silva ML, Dyer MJ |
| Blood. 1998 ; 91 (6) : 1873-1881. |
| PMID 9490669 |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Huret, JL ; Senon, S |
| BCL9 (B-cell CLL/lymphoma 9) |
| Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2003;7(2):101-101. |
| Free journal version : [ pdf ] [ DOI ] |
| On line version : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/BCL9ID466.html |
| Other Leukemias implicated (Data extracted from papers in the Atlas) [ 6 ] |
| External links |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic search in PubMed |
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