Maxwell, PH (2011) Seeing the smoking gun: a sensitive and specific method to visualize loss of the tumour suppressor, fumarate hydratase, in human tissues. J PATHOL , 225 (1) 1 - 3. 10.1002/path.2950.
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Abstract
In this issue of the Journal of Pathology, Bardella et al report a method for identifying tumours that lack fumarate hydratase. The approach they use is immunodetection of proteins that have been modified by a non-enzymatic reaction of thiol groups in proteins with fumarate, which is termed succination. Validation included the use of mice with targeted inactivation of fumarate hydratase in the kidney, extensive studies of normal human tissues and examination of over 1000 specimens from human cancers not associated with FH mutations. Detection of protein succination is likely to provide a sensitive and specific method for pathologists to identify the small proportion of papillary renal cell carcinomas that are associated with germline mutations in the FH gene. Copyright (C) 2011 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Seeing the smoking gun: a sensitive and specific method to visualize loss of the tumour suppressor, fumarate hydratase, in human tissues |
| DOI: | 10.1002/path.2950 |
| Keywords: | fumarate hydratase, hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma, papillary renal cell carcinoma, RENAL-CELL CARCINOMA, CANCER, FH, LEIOMYOMATOSIS, DEFICIENCY, ACTIVATION, MUTATIONS, PATHWAY |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Medicine (Division of) |
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