| Identity |
| Other names | KIAA0128 |
| Hugo | SEPT6 |
| Location | Xq24 |
| DNA/RNA |
| Description | 12 Exons |
| Transcription | Four types of transcripts: 2,3kb, 2,7kb, 3,1kb and 4,6kb coding for three isoforms. |
| Protein |
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| Description | Isoform A: 427 amino acids; 46,9 kDa. Isoform B: 434 amino acids; 49,7 kDa. Isoform D: 429 amino acids; 47,2 kDa. |
| Expression | Ubiquitously expressed; highest levels in placenta, lung, kidney and testes, the 2,7kb transcript can be found only in fetal heart and adult brain tissue. |
| Localisation | Cytoplasmatic |
| Function | The conserved septin protein family was first identified in yeast and subsequently shown to play an important role in cytoskeletal organization and cytokinesis. |
| Implicated in |
| Entity | acute myloid leukemia |
| Disease | AML-M2 and M4 |
| Cytogenetics | ins(X;11)(q24;q23) ins(X;11)(q22-24;q23) t(X;3)(q22;p21) ins(X;11)(q22;q13q25) |
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| Hybrid/Mutated Gene | MLL-Septin 6 |
| Abnormal Protein | MLL exons 1 to 8 Septin 6 exon 2 to end |
| Oncogenesis | basically unknown |
| External links |
| Bibliography |
| Septins: cytoskeletal polymers or signalling GTPases? |
| Field CM, Kellogg D |
| Trends in cell biology. 1999 ; 9 (10) : 387-394. |
| PMID 10481176 |
| An ins(X;11)(q24;q23) fuses the MLL and the Septin 6/KIAA0128 gene in an infant with AML-M2. |
| Borkhardt A, Teigler-Schlegel A, Fuchs U, Keller C, Knig M, Harbott J, Haas OA |
| Genes, chromosomes & cancer. 2001 ; 32 (1) : 82-88. |
| PMID 11477664 |
| SEPTIN6, a human homologue to mouse Septin6, is fused to MLL in infant acute myeloid leukemia with complex chromosomal abnormalities involving 11q23 and Xq24. |
| Ono R, Taki T, Taketani T, Kawaguchi H, Taniwaki M, Okamura T, Kawa K, Hanada R, Kobayashi M, Hayashi Y |
| Cancer research. 2002 ; 62 (2) : 333-337. |
| PMID 11809673 |
| MLL-SEPTIN6 fusion recurs in novel translocation of chromosomes 3, X, and 11 in infant acute myelomonocytic leukaemia and in t(X;11) in infant acute myeloid leukaemia, and MLL genomic breakpoint in complex MLL-SEPTIN6 rearrangement is a DNA topoisomerase II cleavage site. |
| Slater DJ, Hilgenfeld E, Rappaport EF, Shah N, Meek RG, Williams WR, Lovett BD, Osheroff N, Autar RS, Ried T, Felix CA |
| Oncogene. 2002 ; 21 (30) : 4706-4714. |
| PMID 12096348 |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic search in PubMed |
| Contributor(s) |
| Written | 12-2002 | Uta Fuchs, Arndt Borkhardt |
| Children's University Hospital Giessen, Hematology & Oncology, Feulgenstr. 12, 35392 Giessen, Germany |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Fuchs U, Borkhardt A . Septin 6. Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. December 2002 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/SEPTIN6ID376.html |
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