BRAF mutation and AKAP9 expression in sporadic papillary thyroid carcinomas

References

• Davies H., Bignell G. R., Cox C., et al. Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer. Nature 2002; 417: 949–54
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kimura E. T., Nikiforova M. N., Zhu Z., Knauf J. A., Nikiforov Y. E., Fagin J. A. High prevalence of BRAF mutations in thyroid cancer: genetic evidence for constitutive activation of the RET/PTC‐RAS‐BRAF signaling pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Cancer Res 2003; 63: 1454–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen Y., Xing M., Mambo E., et al. BRAF mutation in papillary thyroid carcinoma. J Natl Cancer Inst 2003; 95: 625–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soares P., Trovisco V., Rocha A. S., et al. BRAF mutations and RET/PTC rearrangements are alternative events in the etiopathogenesis of PTC. Oncogene 2003; 22: 4578–80
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Xu X., Quiros R. M., Gattuso P., Ain K. B., Prinz R. A. High prevalence of BRAF gene mutation in papillary thyroid carcinomas and thyroid tumor cell lines. Cancer Res 2003; 63: 4561–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Namba H., Nakashima M., Hayashi T., et al. Clinical implication of hot spot BRAF mutation, V599E, in papillary thyroid cancers. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003; 88: 4393–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fukushima T., Suzuki S., Mashiko M., et al. BRAF mutations in papillary carcinomas of the thyroid. Oncogene 2003; 22: 6455–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nikiforova M. N., Kimura E. T., Gandhi M., et al. BRAF mutations in thyroid tumors are restricted to papillary carcinomas and anaplastic or poorly differentiated carcinomas arising from papillary carcinomas. Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003; 88: 5399–404
   Google Scholar
• Xing M., Vasko V., Tallini G., et al. BRAF T1796A transversion mutation in various thyroid neoplasms. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004; 89: 1365–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim K. H., Kang D. W., Kim S. H., Seong I. O., Kang D. Y. Mutations of the BRAF gene in papillary thyroid carcinoma in a Korean population. Yonsei Med J 2004; 45: 818–21
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Puxeddu E., Moretti S., Elisei R., et al. BRAF(V599E) mutation is the leading genetic event in adult sporadic papillary thyroid carcinomas. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004; 89: 2414–20
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fugazzola L., Mannavola D., Cirello V., et al. BRAF mutations in an Italian cohort of thyroid cancers. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2004; 61: 239–43
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ciampi R., Knauf J. A., Kerler R., et al. Oncogenic AKAP9‐BRAF fusion is a novel mechanism of MAPK pathway activation in thyroid cancer. J Clin Invest 2005; 115: 94–101
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peyssonnaux C., Eychene A. The Raf/MEK/ERK pathway: new concepts of activation. Biol Cell 2001; 93: 53–62
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Avruch J., Khokhlatchev A., Kyriakis J. M., et al. Ras activation of the Raf kinase: tyrosine kinase recruitment of the MAP kinase cascade. Recent Prog Horm Res 2001; 56: 127–55
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kolch W. Meaningful relationships: the regulation of the Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK pathway by protein interactions. Biochem J 2000; 351: 289–305
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mercer K. E., Pritchard C. A. Raf proteins and cancer: B‐Raf is identified as a mutational target. Biochim Biophys Acta 2003; 1653: 25–40
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sithanandam G., Druck T., Cannizzaro L. A., Leuzzi G., Huebner K., Rapp U. R. B‐raf and a B‐raf pseudogene are located on 7q in man. Oncogene 1992; 7: 795–99
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Edwards A. S., Scott J. D. A‐kinase anchoring proteins: protein kinase A and beyond. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2000; 12: 217–21
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Witczak O., Skalhegg B. S., Keryer G., et al. Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding an A‐kinase anchoring protein located in the centrosome, AKAP450. EMBO J 1999; 18: 1858–68
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Takahashi M., Shibata H., Shimakawa M., Miyamoto M., Mukai H., Ono Y. Characterization of a novel giant scaffolding protein, CG‐NAP, that anchors multiple signaling enzymes to centrosome and the golgi apparatus. J Biol Chem 1999; 274: 17267–74
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schmidt P. H., Dransfield D. T., Claudio J. O., et al. AKAP350, a multiply spliced protein kinase A‐anchoring protein associated with centrosomes. J Biol Chem 1999; 274: 3055–66
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar