| Literature DB >> 22327624 |
Takashi Kohno1, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Yasushi Totoki, Kazuki Yasuda, Masaki Hiramoto, Takao Nammo, Hiromi Sakamoto, Koji Tsuta, Koh Furuta, Yoko Shimada, Reika Iwakawa, Hideaki Ogiwara, Takahiro Oike, Masato Enari, Aaron J Schetter, Hirokazu Okayama, Aage Haugen, Vidar Skaug, Suenori Chiku, Itaru Yamanaka, Yasuhito Arai, Shun-Ichi Watanabe, Ikuo Sekine, Seishi Ogawa, Curtis C Harris, Hitoshi Tsuda, Teruhiko Yoshida, Jun Yokota, Tatsuhiro Shibata.
Abstract
We identified in-frame fusion transcripts of KIF5B (the kinesin family 5B gene) and the RET oncogene, which are present in 1-2% of lung adenocarcinomas (LADCs) from people from Japan and the United States, using whole-transcriptome sequencing. The KIF5B-RET fusion leads to aberrant activation of RET kinase and is considered to be a new driver mutation of LADC because it segregates from mutations or fusions in EGFR, KRAS, HER2 and ALK, and a RET tyrosine kinase inhibitor, vandetanib, suppresses the fusion-induced anchorage-independent growth activity of NIH3T3 cells.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 22327624 PMCID： PMC6430196 DOI： 10.1038/nm.2644
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Med ISSN： 1078-8956 Impact factor: 53.440