1. S11 - A NOVEL MUTATİON (N567Y) CAN AFFECT IMATİNİB THERAPY RESPONSE BY STABİLİZATİON OF ACTİVE KIT PROTEİN İN GASTROİNTESTİNAL STROMAL TUMOURS.
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Gizem, CALIBASI, Yasemin, BASKİN, Hakan, ALYURUK, Levent, CAVAS, Ilhan, OZTOP, Ozgul, SAGOL, Hulya, ELLİDOKUZ, and Ugur, YILMAZ
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GENETIC mutation , *IMATINIB , *GASTROINTESTINAL stromal tumors - Abstract
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) are the most common mesenchymal tumours of the gastrointestinal tract. KIT mutations are found in 85 percent of GISTs. Especially, they are localized in exon 9 (extracellular domain) and 11 (juxtamembrane domain). Juxtamembrane region have the initial residues which have role of the autophosphorylation process. During phosphorylation process, phosphotyrosine residues role as docking sites for signal transduction molecules. As a result of autophosphorylation and dimerization, KIT becomes active. Active KIT raised the possibility that imatinib treatments could inhibit KIT activity would be an effective treatment. KIT genotype correlates with imatinib treatment responses. The median time to tumour progression for GIST patients who has exon 11 mutation is more than one year longer than patients whose tumours have exon 9 mutation or wild-type genotypes. KIT gene mutations were evaluated by direct sequencing and analyzed with bioinformatic tools (Three dimensional structural analysis, protein modeling and homology modeling). This study reports a GIST case with a novel (N567Y) and a known (Y553N) mutation on KIT exon 11 region. Three dimensional structure of KIT reveals that these juxtamembrane region mutations (N567Y and Y553N) might have altered the conformation of phosphorylation residues and stabilized the active KIT protein. Thus they might have affected the function of the protein. In conclusion, different structural changes, can lead to stabilize the active KIT. Genetic properties of the GIST patients show great variations in terms of structure of the binding pocket and the affinity of ATP and drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012