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BLOOD
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 729-736Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V97.3.729
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA74265] Funding Source: Medline
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The t(4;14) translocation occurs frequently in multiple myeloma (MM) and results in the simultaneous dysregulated expression of 2 potential oncogenes, FGFR3 (fibroblast growth factor receptor 3) from der(14) and multiple myeloma SET domain protein/Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome candidate gene 1 from der(4), It is now shown that myeloma cells carrying a t(4;14) translocation express a functional FGFR3 that in some cases is constitutively activated by the same mutations that cause thanatophoric dysplasia, As with activating mutations of K-ras and N-ras, which are reported in approximately 40% of patients with MM, activating mutations of FGFR3 occur during tumor progression, However, the constitutive activation of ras and FGFR3 does not occur in the same myeloma cells, Thus the activated forms of these proteins appear to share an overlapping role in tumor progression, suggesting that they also share the signaling cascade, Consistent with this prediction, it is shown that activated FGFR3-when expressed at levels similar to those seen in t(4;14) myeloma-is an oncogene that acts through the MAP kinase pathway to transform NIH 3T3 cells, which can then generate tumors in nude mice, Thus, FGFR3,when overexpressed in MM, may be not only oncogenic when stimulated by FGF ligands in the bone marrow microenvironment, but is also a target for activating mutations that enable FGFR3 to play a ras-like role in tumor progression. (C) 2001 by The American Society of Hematology.
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