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- Title
Identification of recurrent NAB2-STAT6 gene fusions in solitary fibrous tumor by integrative sequencing.
- Authors
Robinson, Dan R; Wu, Yi-Mi; Kalyana-Sundaram, Shanker; Cao, Xuhong; Lonigro, Robert J; Sung, Yun-Shao; Chen, Chun-Liang; Zhang, Lei; Wang, Rui; Su, Fengyun; Iyer, Matthew K; Roychowdhury, Sameek; Siddiqui, Javed; Pienta, Kenneth J; Kunju, Lakshmi P; Talpaz, Moshe; Mosquera, Juan Miguel; Singer, Samuel; Schuetze, Scott M; Antonescu, Cristina R; Chinnaiyan, Arul M
- Abstract
A 44-year old woman with recurrent solitary fibrous tumor (SFT)/hemangiopericytoma was enrolled in a clinical sequencing program including whole-exome and transcriptome sequencing. A gene fusion of the transcriptional repressor NAB2 with the transcriptional activator STAT6 was detected. Transcriptome sequencing of 27 additional SFTs identified the presence of a NAB2-STAT6 gene fusion in all tumors. Using RT-PCR and sequencing, we detected this fusion in all 51 SFTs, indicating high levels of recurrence. Expression of NAB2-STAT6 fusion proteins was confirmed in SFT, and the predicted fusion products harbor the early growth response (EGR)-binding domain of NAB2 fused to the activation domain of STAT6. Overexpression of the NAB2-STAT6 gene fusion induced proliferation in cultured cells and activated the expression of EGR-responsive genes. These studies establish NAB2-STAT6 as the defining driver mutation of SFT and provide an example of how neoplasia can be initiated by converting a transcriptional repressor of mitogenic pathways into a transcriptional activator.
- Publication
Nature genetics, 2013, Vol 45, Issue 2, p180
- ISSN
1546-1718
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng.2509