| 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 |
| 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 | CLTC (clathrin heavy polypeptide) |
| Location | 17q23 |
| Protein | 1675 amino acids, 191 kDa; mediate endocytosis of transmembrane receptors. |
| Result of the chromosomal anomaly |
| Hybrid Gene | |
| Description | 5' CLTC - 3' ALK |
| Fusion Protein | |
| Description | 2196 amino acids. 1634 N-term amino acid from CLTC, containing nearly all of CLTC, including the triskelion assembly domain, 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 research. 1999 ; 59 (12) : 2776-2780. |
| PMID 10383129 |
| Aberrant ALK tyrosine kinase signaling. Different cellular lineages, common oncogenic mechanisms. |
| Ladanyi M |
| The American journal of pathology. 2000 ; 157 (2) : 341-345. |
| PMID 10934137 |
| Fusion of the ALK gene to the clathrin heavy chain gene, CLTC, in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. |
| Bridge JA, Kanamori M, Ma Z, Pickering D, Hill DA, Lydiatt W, Lui MY, Colleoni GW, Antonescu CR, Ladanyi M, Morris SW |
| The American journal of pathology. 2001 ; 159 (2) : 411-415. |
| PMID 11485898 |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic se arch in PubMed |
| Contributor(s) |
| Written | 08-2001 | Jean-Loup Huret |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Huret JL . t(2;17)(p23;q23). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. August 2001 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Tumors/t0217ID5127.html |
This paper is referenced by INIST as such : |
| http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/2042/37800/1/08-2001-t0217ID5127.pdf [ Bibliographic record ] |
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