| Identity |
| Other names | cysteine-tRNA ligase |
| cysteinease-translase | |
| Hugo | CARS |
| Location | 11p15.5 |
| Local_order | 700 kb telomeric to NUP98 |
| DNA/RNA |
| Description | The gene spans 57 kb; 22 exons; 2,5 kb cDNA |
| Transcription | alternate splicing |
| Protein |
| Description | 748 amino acids, 85 kDa. Forms homodimers |
| Localisation | cytoplasmic |
| Implicated in |
| Entity | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors with a complex t(2;11)(p23;p15) |
| Disease | rare soft tissue tumour found in children and young adults |
| Prognosis | good prognosis |
| Hybrid/Mutated Gene | 5' CARS - 3' ALK |
| Abnormal Protein | N-term CARS (606 amino acids) fused to the usual 562 C-term amino acids of ALK |
| External links |
| Bibliography |
| 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 (4) : 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, Sylvie Senon |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Huret JL, Senon S . CARS (cysteinyj-tRNA synthetase). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. August 2003 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/CARSID484.html |
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