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Head and Neck: Pleomorphic salivary gland adenoma with inv(8)(q12q12) (CHCHD7/PLAG1)
| Clinics and Pathology |
| Disease | Pleomorphic salivary gland adenomas (PA) are benign, slow-growing tumors, which show a remarkable degree of morphological diversity. They constitute the most common form of all salivary gland neoplasms and the majority of the PAs occur in the parotid gland, while the remaining tumors are found in the submandibular and minor salivary glands. Although PAs are benign tumors, subsets of these tumors have a tendency to recur and/or undergo malignant transformation. |
| Cytogenetics | inv(8)(q12.1;q12.1) |
| Genes involved and Proteins |
| Gene Name | CHCHD7 (Coiled-coil-helix-coiled-coil-helix domain containing 7) |
| Location | 8q12.1 |
| Dna / Rna | The gene spans about 7 kb and includes 5 exons. Six isoforms of RNA, spliced with or without exon 2, exist with transcript sizes ranging from 1575 bp to 1767 bp. |
| Protein | The protein contains a conserved CHCH domain and is included in a multifamily of proteins which show a strong conservation at the structural level but a low conservation at the amino acid level. |
| Gene Name | PLAG1 (Pleomorphic Adenoma Gene 1) |
| Location | 8q12 |
| Dna / Rna | The gene spans 50 kb and includes 5 exons. The size of the transcript is about 7.3 kb. Two splicing forms of RNA have been found, with or without exon 2. |
| Protein | 500 amino acids (aa), 74 kDa. The gene encodes a zinc finger protein with two putative nuclear localization signals. It contains a conserved SFP1 domain (aa 58-139), which is a putative transcriptional repressor regulating G2/M transition. |
| Result of the chromosomal anomaly |
| Hybrid Gene | |
| Note | The two genes CHCHD7 and PLAG1 are located head-to-head about 500 bp apart in 8q12. The fusion results from a cryptic, paracentric inversion. |
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| Map of the 8q12 region including the CHCHD7 and PLAG1 genes (not drawn to scale). Exons are shown as boxes and the start and stop codons are shown as asterisks and arrowheads, respectively. Breakpoints are shown in red. Reprinted partially from publication CHCHD7-PLAG1 and TCEA1-PLAG1 gene fusions resulting from cryptic, intrachromosomal 8q rearrangements in pleomorphic salivary gland adenomas, Genes Chromosomes Cancer, Vol. 45, No. 9, 2006, 820-828. Copyright 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Wiley-Liss, Inc.. | |
| Description | The CHCHD7-PLAG1 fusion transcript is formed by fusion of exon 1 of CHCHD7 to exon 2 or 3 of PLAG1. |
| Detection | RT-PCR using total RNA extracted from frozen tumor tissue. The CHCHD7-PLAG1 gene fusion was detected by amplification of cDNA using the primers CHCHD22S, 5'-GTGAGCCATTGACGTGTTTG-3' located in exon 1 of CHCHD7, and PLAG564AS, 5'-GGTTTCACCACGCTTACGTT3' located in exon 4 of PLAG1. Fusion transcripts of 467 and 362 bp were detected. |
| Fusion Protein | |
| Description | Exon 1 of CHCHD7 fused to either exon 2 or 3 of PLAG1 results in a promoter swapping where the intact coding region of PLAG1 is expressed from a different promoter. |
| Expression Localisation | Nucleus. |
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| CHCHD7-PLAG1 and TCEA1-PLAG1 gene fusions resulting from cryptic, intrachromosomal 8q rearrangements in pleomorphic salivary gland adenomas. |
| Asp J, Persson F, Kost-Alimova M, Stenman G |
| Genes, chromosomes & cancer. 2006 ; 45 (9) : 820-828. |
| PMID 16736500 |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic se arch in PubMed |
| Contributor(s) |
| Written | 04-2007 | Julia Asp, Goran Stenman |
| Molecular Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Transfusion Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Bruna Straket 16, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, 413 45 Goteborg, Sweden. |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Asp J, Stenman G . Head and Neck: Pleomorphic salivary gland adenoma with inv(8)(q12q12) (CHCHD7/PLAG1). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. April 2007 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Tumors/SalivAdenCHCHD7PLAG1ID5431.html |
This paper is referenced by INIST as such : |
| ttp://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/16970/04-2007-SalivAdenCHCHD7PLAG1ID5431.pdf [ Bibliographic record ] |
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