Jonathan A. Fletcher

Molecular genetic characterization of the EWS/CHN and RBP56/CHN fusion genes in extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma. (2002)

Panagopoulos, Ioannis, Mertens, Fredrik, Isaksson, Margareth, Domanski, Henryk A, Brosjö, Otte, Heim, Sverre, ...

Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (EMC) is a soft-tissue neoplasm cytogenetically characterized by the translocations t(9;22)(q22;q11-12) or t(9;17)(q22;q11), generating EWS/CHN or RBP56/CHN fusion...

NPAT links cyclin E-Cdk2 to the regulation of replication-dependent histone gene transcription. (2000)

Zhao, Jiyong, Kennedy, Brian K., Lawrence, Brandon D., Barbie, David A., Matera, A. Gregory, Fletcher, Jonathan A., ...

In eukaryotic cells, histone gene expression is one of the major events that mark entry into S phase. While this process is tightly linked to cell cycle position, how it is regulated by the cell...

Frequent fusion of the JAZF1 and JJAZ1 genes in endometrial stromal tumors

Koontz, Jason I., Soreng, A. Lee, Nucci, Marisa, Kuo, Frank C., Pauwels, Patrick, Van Den Berghe, Herman, ...

Endometrial stromal tumors are divided into three types: benign stromal nodules, endometrial stromal sarcomas, and undifferentiated endometrial sarcomas. A variety of cytogenetic abnormalities...

PPARγ ligands inhibit primary tumor growth and metastasis by inhibiting angiogenesis

Panigrahy, Dipak, Singer, Samuel, Shen, Lucy Q., Butterfield, Catherine E., Freedman, Deborah A., Chen, Emy J., ...

Several drugs approved for a variety of indications have been shown to exhibit antiangiogenic effects. Our study focuses on the PPARγ ligand rosiglitazone, a compound widely used in the treatment of...

Cloning of an Alpha-TFEB fusion in renal tumors harboring the t(6;11)(p21;q13) chromosome translocation

Davis, Ian J., Hsi, Bae-Li, Arroyo, Jason D., Vargas, Sara O., Yeh, Y. Albert, Motyckova, Gabriela, ...

MITF, TFE3, TFEB, and TFEC comprise a transcription factor family (MiT) that regulates key developmental pathways in several cell lineages. Like MYC, MiT members are basic helix-loop-helix-leucine...

NPAT links cyclin E–Cdk2 to the regulation of replication-dependent histone gene transcription

Zhao, Jiyong, Kennedy, Brian K., Lawrence, Brandon D., Barbie, David A., Matera, A. Gregory, Fletcher, Jonathan A., ...

In eukaryotic cells, histone gene expression is one of the major events that mark entry into S phase. While this process is tightly linked to cell cycle position, how it is regulated by the cell...

PKC412 inhibits the zinc finger 198-fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 fusion tyrosine kinase and is active in treatment of stem cell myeloproliferative disorder

Chen, Jing, DeAngelo, Daniel J., Kutok, Jeffery L., Williams, Ifor R., Lee, Benjamin H., Wadleigh, Martha, ...

Human stem cell leukemia-lymphoma syndrome usually presents itself as a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that evolves to acute myeloid leukemia and/or lymphoma. The syndrome associated with...

Limitations of Chromosome Classification by Multicolor Karyotyping

Lee, Charles, Gisselsson, David, Jin, Charlotte, Nordgren, Ann, Ferguson, David O., Blennow, Elisabeth, ...

Multicolor karyotyping technologies, such as spectral karyotyping (SKY) (Schröck et al. 1996; Liyanage et al. 1996) and multiplex (M-) FISH (Speicher et al. 1996), have proved to be extremely useful...

Frequent fusion of the JAZF1 and JJAZ1 genes in endometrial stromal tumors

Koontz, Jason I., Soreng, A. Lee, Nucci, Marisa, Kuo, Frank C., Pauwels, Patrick, Van Den Berghe, Herman, ...

Endometrial stromal tumors are divided into three types: benign stromal nodules, endometrial stromal sarcomas, and undifferentiated endometrial sarcomas. A variety of cytogenetic abnormalities...

PPARγ ligands inhibit primary tumor growth and metastasis by inhibiting angiogenesis

Panigrahy, Dipak, Singer, Samuel, Shen, Lucy Q., Butterfield, Catherine E., Freedman, Deborah A., Chen, Emy J., ...

Several drugs approved for a variety of indications have been shown to exhibit antiangiogenic effects. Our study focuses on the PPARγ ligand rosiglitazone, a compound widely used in the treatment of...

Cloning of an Alpha-TFEB fusion in renal tumors harboring the t(6;11)(p21;q13) chromosome translocation

Davis, Ian J., Hsi, Bae-Li, Arroyo, Jason D., Vargas, Sara O., Yeh, Y. Albert, Motyckova, Gabriela, ...

MITF, TFE3, TFEB, and TFEC comprise a transcription factor family (MiT) that regulates key developmental pathways in several cell lineages. Like MYC, MiT members are basic helix-loop-helix-leucine...

NPAT links cyclin E–Cdk2 to the regulation of replication-dependent histone gene transcription

Zhao, Jiyong, Kennedy, Brian K., Lawrence, Brandon D., Barbie, David A., Matera, A. Gregory, Fletcher, Jonathan A., ...

In eukaryotic cells, histone gene expression is one of the major events that mark entry into S phase. While this process is tightly linked to cell cycle position, how it is regulated by the cell...

PKC412 inhibits the zinc finger 198-fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 fusion tyrosine kinase and is active in treatment of stem cell myeloproliferative disorder

Chen, Jing, DeAngelo, Daniel J., Kutok, Jeffery L., Williams, Ifor R., Lee, Benjamin H., Wadleigh, Martha, ...

Human stem cell leukemia-lymphoma syndrome usually presents itself as a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that evolves to acute myeloid leukemia and/or lymphoma. The syndrome associated with...

Limitations of Chromosome Classification by Multicolor Karyotyping

Lee, Charles, Gisselsson, David, Jin, Charlotte, Nordgren, Ann, Ferguson, David O., Blennow, Elisabeth, ...

Multicolor karyotyping technologies, such as spectral karyotyping (SKY) (Schröck et al. 1996; Liyanage et al. 1996) and multiplex (M-) FISH (Speicher et al. 1996), have proved to be extremely useful...

KIT Mutations Are Common in Testicular Seminomas

Kemmer, Kathleen, Corless, Christopher L., Fletcher, Jonathan A., McGreevey, Laura, Haley, Andrea, Griffith, Diana, ...

Expression of KIT tyrosine kinase is critical for normal germ cell development and is observed in the majority of seminomas. Activating mutations in KIT are common in gastrointestinal stromal tumors...

Activation of the GLI Oncogene through Fusion with the β-Actin Gene (ACTB) in a Group of Distinctive Pericytic Neoplasms: Pericytoma with t(7;12)

Dahlén, Anna, Fletcher, Christopher D. M., Mertens, Fredrik, Fletcher, Jonathan A., Perez-Atayde, Antonio R., Hicks, M. John, ...

Activation of the GLI oncogene is an important step in the sonic hedgehog signaling pathway, and leads to, eg, tissue-specific cell proliferation during embryogenesis. GLI activity in adult tissues...

KIT Extracellular and Kinase Domain Mutations in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

Lux, Marcia L., Rubin, Brian P., Biase, Tara L., Chen, Chang-Jie, Maclure, Timothy, Demetri, George, ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms arising in the gastrointestinal tract. GISTs express the KIT receptor tyrosine kinase, and many cases have activating...

Subtracted, Unique-Sequence, In Situ Hybridization : Experimental and Diagnostic Applications

Davison, Jon M., Morgan, Thomas W., Hsi, Bae-Li, Xiao, Sheng, Fletcher, Jonathan A.

Nonrandom chromosomal aberrations, particularly in cancer, identify pathogenic biological pathways and, in some cases, have clinical relevance as diagnostic or prognostic markers. Fluorescence and...

Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma t(12;15) Is Associated with ETV6-NTRK3 Gene Fusion : Cytogenetic and Molecular Relationship to Congenital (Infantile) Fibrosarcoma

Rubin, Brian P., Chen, Chang-Jie, Morgan, Thomas W., Xiao, Sheng, Grier, Holcombe E., Kozakewich, Harry P., ...

Morphological, cytogenetic, and biological evidence supports a relationship between congenital (infantile) fibrosarcoma (CFS) and congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN). These tumors have a very...

TPM3-ALK and TPM4-ALK Oncogenes in Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors

Lawrence, Brandon, Perez-Atayde, Antonio, Hibbard, Michele K., Rubin, Brian P., Dal Cin, Paola, Pinkus, Jack L., ...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) are neoplastic mesenchymal proliferations featuring an inflammatory infiltrate composed primarily of lymphocytes and plasma cells. The myofibroblastic cells...

Primary Renal Neoplasms with the ASPL-TFE3 Gene Fusion of Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma : A Distinctive Tumor Entity Previously Included among Renal Cell Carcinomas of Children and Adolescents

Argani, Pedram, Antonescu, Cristina R., Illei, Peter B., Lui, Man Yee, Timmons, Charles F., Newbury, Robert, ...

The unbalanced translocation, der(17)t(X;17)(p11.2;q25), is characteristic of alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS). We have recently shown that this translocation fuses the TFE3 transcription factor...

PLAG1 Alterations in Lipoblastoma : Involvement in Varied Mesenchymal Cell Types and Evidence for Alternative Oncogenic Mechanisms

Gisselsson, David, Hibbard, Michele K., Dal Cin, Paola, Sciot, Raf, Hsi, Bae-Li, Kozakewich, Harry P., ...

Lipoblastomas are rare soft tissue tumors that occur primarily in young children. They typically contain variably differentiated adipocytes, primitive mesenchymal cells, myxoid matrix, and fibrous...

BRD4 Bromodomain Gene Rearrangement in Aggressive Carcinoma with Translocation t(15;19)

French, Christopher A., Miyoshi, Isao, Aster, Jon C., Kubonishi, Ichiro, Kroll, Todd G., Dal Cin, Paola, ...

Translocation t(15;19)(q13;p13.1) defines a lethal midline carcinoma arising adjacent to respiratory tract in young people. To characterize molecular alterations responsible for the distinctly...

Genetic and Biological Subgroups of Low-Stage Follicular Thyroid Cancer

French, Christopher A., Alexander, Erik K., Cibas, Edmund S., Nose, Vania, Laguette, Julia, Faquin, William, ...

Investigations of cancer-specific gene rearrangements have increased our understanding of human neoplasia and led to the use of the rearrangements in pathological diagnosis of blood cell and...

KIT Gene Deletions at the Intron 10−Exon 11 Boundary in GI Stromal Tumors

Corless, Christopher L., McGreevey, Laura, Town, Ajia, Schroeder, Arin, Bainbridge, Troy, Harrell, Patina, ...

Most gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) harbor oncogenic mutations in the KIT gene, and the majority of these mutations affect the juxtamembrane domain of the kinase encoded by exon 11....