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Histopathology ; 84(2): 381-386, 2024 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37855220

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AIMS: Angiofibroma of soft tissue (AFST) is a benign, morphologically distinctive tumour type that harbours recurrent AHRR::NCOA2 fusions in 60-70% of cases and shows a non-specific immunophenotype, expressing EMA in roughly half of cases. The AHRR::NCOA2 fusion results in increased expression of cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1); a recent study demonstrated CYP1A1 immunohistochemistry (IHC) to be moderately sensitive and highly specific for AFST. METHODS AND RESULTS: In this study, we sought to validate these findings in a larger independent cohort of 30 AFST, as well as 215 morphological mimics, including 30 solitary fibrous tumours, 29 myxoid liposarcomas, 28 low-to-intermediate grade myxofibrosarcomas (MFS), 20 atypical spindle cell lipomatous tumours (ASCLT), 20 cellular angiofibromas, 10 cases each of spindle cell lipoma, neurofibroma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour, superficial angiomyxoma, cellular myxoma, soft tissue perineurioma and deep fibrous histiocytoma, and nine cases each of low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma and mammary-type myofibroblastoma. We found CYP1A1 IHC to be 70% sensitive for AFST, with granular cytoplasmic staining in 21 of 30 tumours, and 98% specific, with staining in only five morphological mimics: two deep fibrous histiocytomas, one MFS, one cellular angiofibroma and one ASCLT. CONCLUSIONS: These findings confirm that CYP1A1 is 70% sensitive, consistent with the prevalence of AHRR::NCOA2 fusions that up-regulate this protein, and that it is highly specific among morphological mimics.


Assuntos
Angiofibroma , Fibrossarcoma , Lipoma , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles , Adulto , Humanos , Angiofibroma/diagnóstico , Angiofibroma/genética , Angiofibroma/metabolismo , Imuno-Histoquímica , Citocromo P-450 CYP1A1 , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/diagnóstico , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/genética , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/metabolismo
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Mod Pathol ; 36(11): 100298, 2023 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37544363

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Postinfantile giant cell hepatitis (PIGCH) is a rare hepatitis pattern in adults with variable etiologies and clinical outcomes. We conducted a multi-institutional retrospective study to define the clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with PIGCH. A total of 70 PIGCH cases were identified and reviewed for pathological features, including fibrosis, cholestasis, inflammation, steatosis, necrosis, and apoptosis, as well as the distribution of giant cells and the maximum number of giant cells per high-power field. Demographic and clinical data, including age, sex, laboratory results, etiologies, and follow-up results, were recorded. Among the 70 cases, 40% (28/70) were associated with autoimmune liver diseases, followed by 9 (13%) with unknown etiology, 8 (11%) with viral infection, 5 (7%) with medications, 5 with combined etiologies, and 4 (6%) with malignancies (mostly chronic lymphocytic leukemia). Notably, another 16% were de novo PIGCH in liver allografts, most of which occurred after a rejection event. During follow-up, 26 (37%) patients died of the disease and 44 (63%) were alive. Deceased patients were characterized by older age (mean age, 54.9 vs 45.5 years; P = .02), higher alkaline phosphatase level (mean value, 253.3U/L vs 166.3 U/L; P = .03), higher fibrosis stage (stage 3-4 vs stage 0-2, 57.7% vs 29.6%; P = .03), being more likely to have de novo PIGCH after transplantation (23.1% vs 11.4%; P = .04), and being less likely to have primary autoimmune liver disease etiology (26.9% vs 47.7%; P = .04). These results indicate that PIGCH is a rare pattern of liver injury associated with different etiologies and variable clinical outcomes. Autoimmune liver disease with PIGCH is associated with better survival, whereas de novo PIGCH in allografts is associated with poorer survival. Older age, higher alkaline phosphatase level, and advanced fibrosis are adverse prognostic factors.


Assuntos
Fosfatase Alcalina , Hepatite , Adulto , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fígado/patologia , Hepatite/etiologia , Hepatite/patologia , Fibrose , Aloenxertos/patologia
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Semin Diagn Pathol ; 40(4): 246-257, 2023 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37156707

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Cutaneous mesenchymal neoplasms are diagnostically challenging because of their overlapping morphology, and, often, the limited tissue in skin biopsy specimens. Molecular and cytogenetic techniques have identified characteristic gene fusions in many of these tumor types, findings that have expanded our understanding of disease pathogenesis and motivated development of useful ancillary diagnostic tools. Here, we provide an update of new findings in tumor types that can occur in the skin and superficial subcutis, including dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, benign fibrous histiocytoma, epithelioid fibrous histiocytoma, angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma, glomus tumor, myopericytoma/myofibroma, non-neural granular cell tumor, CIC-rearranged sarcoma, hybrid schwannoma/perineurioma, and clear cell sarcoma. We also discuss recently described and emerging tumor types that can occur in superficial locations and that harbor gene fusions, including nested glomoid neoplasm with GLI1 alterations, clear cell tumor with melanocytic differentiation and ACTIN::MITF translocation, melanocytic tumor with CRTC1::TRIM11 fusion, EWSR1::SMAD3-rearranged fibroblastic tumor, PLAG1-rearranged fibroblastic tumor, and superficial ALK-rearranged myxoid spindle cell neoplasm. When possible, we discuss how fusion events mediate the pathogenesis of these tumor types, and we also discuss the related diagnostic and therapeutic implications of these events.


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Tumor Glômico , Histiocitoma Fibroso Maligno , Neoplasias Cutâneas , Humanos , Neoplasias Cutâneas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Cutâneas/genética , Histiocitoma Fibroso Maligno/genética , Histiocitoma Fibroso Maligno/patologia , Fusão Gênica , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Proteínas com Motivo Tripartido/genética , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/genética
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J Pathol ; 253(3): 258-267, 2021 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33165914

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The pathologic diagnosis of neoplasia requires localization and classification of lesional tissue, a process that depends on the recognition of an abnormal spatial distribution of neoplastic elements relative to admixed normal background tissue. In endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia (EIN), a pre-cancer usually managed by hysterectomy, a clonally mutated proliferation of cytologically altered glands ('neoplastic-EIN') aggregates in clusters that also contain background non-neoplastic glands ('background-NL'). Here, we used image analysis to classify individual glands within endometrial tissue fragments as neoplastic-EIN or background-NL, and we used the distribution of predictions to localize foci diagnostic of EIN. Nuclear coordinates were automatically assigned and were used as vertices to generate Delaunay triangulations for each gland. Graph statistical variables were used to develop random forest algorithms to classify glands as neoplastic-EIN or background-NL. Individual glands in an independent validation set were scored by a 'ground truth' biomarker (PAX2 immunohistochemistry). We found that exclusion of small glands led to improvement in classification accuracy. Using an inclusion threshold of 200 nuclei per gland, our final model classification accuracy was 77.5% in the validation set, with a positive predictive value of 0.81. We leveraged this high positive predictive value in a point cloud overlay display to assist end-user identification of EIN foci. This study demonstrates that graph theory approaches applied to small-scale anatomic elements in the endometrium allow biologic classification by machine learning, and that spatial superimposition over large-scale tissue expanses can have practical diagnostic utility. We expect this augmented diagnostic approach to be generalizable to commonly encountered problems in other organ systems. © 2020 The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Assuntos
Algoritmos , Carcinoma in Situ/patologia , Hiperplasia Endometrial/patologia , Neoplasias do Endométrio/patologia , Carcinoma in Situ/diagnóstico por imagem , Hiperplasia Endometrial/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias do Endométrio/diagnóstico por imagem , Endométrio/diagnóstico por imagem , Endométrio/patologia , Feminino , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Valor Preditivo dos Testes
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Genes Chromosomes Cancer ; 60(12): 833-836, 2021 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34369017

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Aneurysmal bone cyst is a benign bone neoplasm that most commonly arises from the metaphyses of long bones in the first and second decades of life. Here, we describe a case of an aneurysmal bone cyst that occurred in the distal tibial diaphysis of a 72-year-old female that was concerning for malignancy on imaging, demonstrating cortical breakthrough and soft tissue extension. Histologically, the tumor showed the characteristic morphologic features of aneurysmal bone cyst. Fluorescence in situ hybridization was positive for USP6 rearrangement, and RNA sequencing revealed a USP6 gene fusion with VDR, a novel partner that encodes the vitamin D receptor and that has not been implicated previously in human neoplasia. This case highlights the diagnostic challenges presented by aneurysmal bone cyst in elderly adults, and it expands the genetic spectrum of USP6 rearrangements.


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Cistos Ósseos Aneurismáticos/genética , Neoplasias Ósseas/genética , Receptores de Calcitriol/genética , Ubiquitina Tiolesterase/genética , Idoso , Cistos Ósseos Aneurismáticos/diagnóstico , Cistos Ósseos Aneurismáticos/diagnóstico por imagem , Cistos Ósseos Aneurismáticos/patologia , Neoplasias Ósseas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Ósseas/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Feminino , Fusão Gênica/genética , Rearranjo Gênico/genética , Humanos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/genética
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Mod Pathol ; 34(9): 1696-1703, 2021 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33994539

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Calcifying nested stromal-epithelial tumor (CNSET) is a rare hepatic tumor that occurs in children and young adults. With <40 cases in the literature, the mechanism for tumorigenesis and the biological behavior of CNSET remain uncertain. Here, we studied the clinicopathologic and molecular genetic features of eight CNSETs. Six patients (75%) were female, and the median age at presentation was 22.5 years (range 14-34 years). The median tumor size was 14 cm (range 2.7-18 cm). All tumors had fibrous stroma that contained organoid nests of epithelioid to spindled tumor cells with moderate amounts of palely eosinophilic cytoplasm and ovoid, vesicular nuclei. Five tumors showed calcifications, and one showed lymphovascular invasion. Necrosis was absent in all. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated nuclear ß-catenin expression in five of five tested tumors and focal to diffuse nuclear WT-1 positivity in five of seven. Hepatocellular markers (HepPar-1, arginase-1, and albumin in situ hybridization) and neuroendocrine markers (synaptophysin, chromogranin, and INSM1) were uniformly negative. Next-generation sequencing demonstrated CTNNB1 alterations in all seven sequenced tumors. Sanger sequencing demonstrated TERT promoter mutations in all six sequenced tumors. Clinical follow-up was available for seven patients (median duration 4.4 years; range 1.2-6.2 years): four (57%) developed metastatic disease; all four developed lung metastases; and two also had abdominal metastases. All four patients with metastatic disease also had persistent or recurrent liver tumors. Three patients with metastases were alive with disease at the most recent follow-up and one died of disease. The other three patients with available follow-up did not develop metastasis or recurrence. One tumor treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy showed no response, and another showed 90% tumor fibrosis; the latter patient remained disease-free at 6.2 years of follow-up. Our series demonstrates the presence of TERT promoter mutations and CTNNB1 alterations in all sequenced tumors and suggests that CNSET might perhaps be more aggressive than previously reported.


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Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patologia , Telomerase/genética , beta Catenina/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Calcinose/genética , Calcinose/patologia , Células Epiteliais/patologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Células Estromais/patologia , Adulto Jovem
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Histopathology ; 78(1): 171-186, 2021 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33382494

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The pathologist's approach to gastroesophageal mesenchymal tumours has changed dramatically during the last 25 years. In particular, gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) has evolved from a wastebasket mesenchymal tumour category to a precisely defined entity with an increasingly detailed genetic subclassification. This subclassification has brought gastrointestinal mesenchymal neoplasia into the realm of precision medicine, with specific treatments optimised for particular genetic subtypes. Molecular genetic data have also greatly improved our understanding of oesophageal mesenchymal tumours, including the discovery that so-called 'giant fibrovascular polyps' in fact represent a clinically distinctive presentation of well-differentiated liposarcoma. Here, we will focus on gastroesophageal mesenchymal tumours for which there have been recent developments in classification, molecular genetics or tumour biology: granular cell tumour, 'giant fibrovascular polyp'/well-differentiated liposarcoma, plexiform fibromyxoma, gastroblastoma and, of course, GIST.


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Neoplasias Esofágicas/patologia , Junção Esofagogástrica/patologia , Tumores do Estroma Gastrointestinal/patologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/patologia , Trato Gastrointestinal/patologia , Humanos
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Pediatr Dev Pathol ; 24(6): 564-569, 2021.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34121507

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Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL) is a rare aggressive neoplasm that occurs predominantly in children. Like mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver (MHL), UESL harbors recurrent rearrangements involving 19q13.3 and 19q13.4, a region of the genome that contains a primate-specific cluster of micro-RNAs. Here, we present a case of a high-grade neoplasm that arose in the left hepatic lobe of a 5-year-old male and gave rise to widespread lymph node, visceral, and soft tissue metastases. The tumor was composed of sheets, tubules, and papillae of epithelioid cells with rhabdoid morphology. INI1 and BRG1 expression were retained. Tumor cells diffusely expressed epithelial markers, including multiple keratins. While the morphologic and immunophenotypic features were suggestive of poorly differentiated carcinoma with rhabdoid features, the tumor was found to harbor the t(11;19)(q13;q13.3) translocation characteristic of UESL, as well as a TP53 mutation. Given the clinical presentation, imaging, clinical course, the tumor was classified as UESL with unusual, carcinoma-like histopathologic features. In the context of an unclassified high-grade hepatic tumor in a young child, molecular or cytogenetic testing for chromosome 19q13 alterations should be considered.


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Carcinoma , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Sarcoma , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Masculino , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia , Sarcoma/diagnóstico , Sarcoma/genética
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Mod Pathol ; 33(11): 2295-2306, 2020 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32601382

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Chondroblastoma is currently classified as a benign neoplasm; however, chondroblastoma and chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma have morphologic overlap, raising the possibility that some tumors diagnosed as chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma might actually represent malignant chondroblastoma. The H3F3B K36M point mutation, which has not been reported in osteosarcoma, is identified in 95% of chondroblastomas and is reliably detectable by immunohistochemistry (IHC). We reviewed 11 tumors diagnosed as atypical chondroblastoma, malignant chondroblastoma, or chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma (median follow-up: 8.8 years; range: 4 months-26.4 years). Seven chondroblastomas with cytologic atypia and permeative growth were designated "malignant chondroblastoma"; six were H3K36M-positive by IHC. Relative to conventional chondroblastoma, malignant chondroblastoma occurred in older individuals (median: 52 years; range: 29-57 years) and arose at unusual sites. Three of four tumors with long-term follow-up recurred, and one patient died of widespread metastases. One was found to have chromosomal copy number alter4ations and a SETD2 mutation in addition to H3F3B K36M. The four remaining tumors were classified as chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma. Chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma occurred in younger patients (median: 21 years; range: 19-40 years) than malignant chondroblastoma. In contrast to malignant chondroblastoma, all had regions of malignant cells forming bone. Two of three patients with long-term follow-up developed recurrences, and two died of disease, one with widespread metastases. No mutations in H3F3A/H3F3B were detected by Sanger sequencing. While malignant chondroblastoma and chondroblastoma-like osteosarcoma show significant morphologic overlap, they have distinct clinical presentations and genetic findings. When considering this challenging differential diagnosis, IHC using histone H3 mutation-specific antibodies is a critical diagnostic adjunct.


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Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Condroblastoma/patologia , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Adulto , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Neoplasias Ósseas/genética , Neoplasias Ósseas/metabolismo , Condroblastoma/genética , Condroblastoma/metabolismo , Feminino , Histona-Lisina N-Metiltransferase/genética , Histona-Lisina N-Metiltransferase/metabolismo , Histonas/genética , Histonas/metabolismo , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/metabolismo
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Int J Gynecol Pathol ; 39(4): 333-343, 2020 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31157686

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Benign normal (NL), premalignant (endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia, EIN) and malignant (cancer, EMCA) endometria must be precisely distinguished for optimal management. EIN was objectively defined previously as a regression model incorporating manually traced histologic variables to predict clonal growth and cancer outcomes. Results from this early computational study were used to revise subjective endometrial precancer diagnostic criteria currently in use. We here use automated feature segmentation and updated machine learning algorithms to develop a new classification algorithm. Endometrial tissue from 148 patients was randomly separated into 72-patient training and 76-patient validation cohorts encompassing all 3 diagnostic classes. We applied image analysis software to keratin stained endometrial tissues to automatically segment whole-slide digital images into epithelium, cells, and nuclei and extract corresponding variables. A total of 1413 variables were culled to 75 based on random forest classification performance in a 3-group (NL, EIN, EMCA) model. This algorithm correctly classifies cases with 3-class error rates of 0.04 (training set) and 0.058 (validation set); and 2-class (NL vs. EIN+EMCA) error rate of 0.016 (training set) and 0 (validation set). The 4 most heavily weighted variables are surrogates of those previously identified in manual-segmentation machine learning studies (stromal and epithelial area percentages, and normalized epithelial surface lengths). Lesser weighted predictors include gland and lumen axis lengths and ratios, and individual cell measures. Automated image analysis and random forest classification algorithms can classify normal, premalignant, and malignant endometrial tissues. Highest predictive variables overlap with those discovered independently in early models based on manual segmentation.


Assuntos
Algoritmos , Hiperplasia Endometrial/classificação , Neoplasias do Endométrio/classificação , Aprendizado de Máquina , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/classificação , Estudos de Coortes , Hiperplasia Endometrial/patologia , Neoplasias do Endométrio/patologia , Endométrio/patologia , Células Epiteliais/patologia , Feminino , Humanos , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador , Modelos Estatísticos , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/patologia , Fluxo de Trabalho
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Mod Pathol ; 31(12): 1882-1890, 2018 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29955144

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Mismatch repair protein deficiency is a hallmark of cancers associated with Lynch syndrome and is a biomarker for response to immunotherapy. With the increasing adoption of cancer next-generation sequencing, there has been a movement to develop screening approaches that take advantage of the unique mutational signatures of mismatch repair-deficient tumors. Here, we develop a sequencing-based metric that distinguishes mismatch repair-deficient from mismatch repair-proficient colorectal adenocarcinomas with comparison to immunohistochemical staining. We find that a single criterion of three or more single base pair insertion or deletion mutations per megabase sequenced, occurring in mononucleotide repeat regions of four or more nucleotides, is sufficient to detect mismatch repair deficiency with 96% sensitivity and 100% specificity in a training set of 241 cancers and 96% sensitivity and 99% specificity in a validation set of 436 additional cancers. Using data from the same cohort, we also find that sequencing information from only three genes-ARID1A, KMT2D, and SOX9-is sufficient to detect mismatch repair-deficient colorectal adenocarcinomas with 76% sensitivity and 98% specificity in the validation set. These findings support the notion that targeted next-generation sequencing already being performed for clinical or research purposes can also be used to accurately detect mismatch repair deficiency in colorectal adenocarcinomas.


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Adenocarcinoma/genética , Neoplasias Colorretais Hereditárias sem Polipose/genética , Neoplasias Colorretais/genética , Reparo de Erro de Pareamento de DNA/genética , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala/métodos , Adulto , Idoso , Neoplasias Colorretais Hereditárias sem Polipose/diagnóstico , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade
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J Neurosci ; 34(21): 7238-52, 2014 May 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24849357

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It has recently been proposed that post-translational modification of not only the M3-M4 linker but also the M1-M2 linker of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels modulates function in vivo. To estimate the involvement of the M1-M2 linker in gating and desensitization, we engineered a series of mutations to this linker of the human adult-muscle acetylcholine receptor (AChR), the α3ß4 AChR and the homomeric α1 glycine receptor (GlyR). All tested M1-M2 linker mutations had little effect on the kinetics of deactivation or desensitization compared with the effects of mutations to the M2 α-helix or the extracellular M2-M3 linker. However, when the effects of mutations were assessed with 50 Hz trains of ∼1 ms pulses of saturating neurotransmitter, some mutations led to much more, and others to much less, peak-current depression than observed for the wild-type channels, suggesting that these mutations could affect the fidelity of fast synaptic transmission. Nevertheless, no mutation to this linker could mimic the irreversible loss of responsiveness reported to result from the oxidation of the M1-M2 linker cysteines of the α3 AChR subunit. We also replaced the M3-M4 linker of the α1 GlyR with much shorter peptides and found that none of these extensive changes affects channel deactivation strongly or reduces the marked variability in desensitization kinetics that characterizes the wild-type channel. However, we found that these large mutations to the M3-M4 linker can have pronounced effects on desensitization kinetics, supporting the notion that its post-translational modification could indeed modulate α1 GlyR behavior.


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Ativação do Canal Iônico/fisiologia , Canais Iônicos de Abertura Ativada por Ligante/fisiologia , Mutação/genética , Receptores Nicotínicos/genética , Acetilcolina/farmacologia , Animais , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Glicina/farmacologia , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intracelular/genética , Ativação do Canal Iônico/efeitos dos fármacos , Potenciais da Membrana/efeitos dos fármacos , Potenciais da Membrana/genética , Mutagênese Sítio-Dirigida , Técnicas de Patch-Clamp , Cloreto de Potássio/farmacologia , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína , Receptores de Glicina , Fatores de Tempo
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 109(16): 6331-6, 2012 Apr 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22474383

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The determination of structural models of the various stable states of an ion channel is a key step toward the characterization of its conformational dynamics. In the case of nicotinic-type receptors, different structures have been solved but, thus far, these different models have been obtained from different members of the superfamily. In the case of the bacterial member ELIC, a cysteamine-gated channel from Erwinia chrisanthemi, a structural model of the protein in the absence of activating ligand (and thus, conceivably corresponding to the closed state of this channel) has been previously generated. In this article, electrophysiological characterization of ELIC mutants allowed us to identify pore mutations that slow down the time course of desensitization to the extent that the channel seems not to desensitize at all for the duration of the agonist applications (>20 min). Thus, it seems reasonable to conclude that the probability of ELIC occupying the closed state is much lower for the ligand-bound mutants than for the unliganded wild-type channel. To gain insight into the conformation adopted by ELIC under these conditions, we solved the crystal structures of two of these mutants in the presence of a concentration of cysteamine that elicits an intracluster open probability of >0.9. Curiously, the obtained structural models turned out to be nearly indistinguishable from the model of the wild-type channel in the absence of bound agonist. Overall, our findings bring to light the limited power of functional studies in intact membranes when it comes to inferring the functional state of a channel in a crystal, at least in the case of the nicotinic-receptor superfamily.


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Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Dickeya chrysanthemi/genética , Canais Iônicos de Abertura Ativada por Ligante/genética , Mutação , Animais , Proteínas de Bactérias/química , Proteínas de Bactérias/fisiologia , Cristalografia por Raios X , Cisteamina/farmacologia , Dickeya chrysanthemi/fisiologia , Feminino , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Ativação do Canal Iônico/genética , Ativação do Canal Iônico/fisiologia , Canais Iônicos de Abertura Ativada por Ligante/química , Canais Iônicos de Abertura Ativada por Ligante/fisiologia , Potenciais da Membrana/efeitos dos fármacos , Camundongos , Modelos Moleculares , Oócitos/metabolismo , Oócitos/fisiologia , Conformação Proteica/efeitos dos fármacos , Estrutura Secundária de Proteína/efeitos dos fármacos , Fatores de Tempo , Xenopus laevis
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J Clin Pathol ; 2024 Aug 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39209444

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EWSR1 is the most commonly rearranged gene in mesenchymal neoplasia, and its myriad chimeric oncoproteins drive widely disparate neoplasms. Here, we survey selected EWSR1 rearrangements, including well-described EWSR1 fusions with CREB family members, ATF1 and CREB1, as well as fusions in emerging entities such as mesenchymal neoplasms with EWSR1::PATZ1 and EWSR1::NFATC2 fusions. We also discuss recent data demonstrating the imperfect specificity of EWSR1::WT1 and, possibly, EWSR1::FLI1 fusions.

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Am J Surg Pathol ; 48(8): 1005-1016, 2024 Aug 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38717131

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The number of recognized sarcoma types harboring targetable molecular alterations continues to increase. Here we present 25 examples of a distinctive myofibroblastic tumor, provisionally termed "myxoid inflammatory myofibroblastic sarcoma," which might be related to inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, and which occurred in 13 males (52%) and 12 females at a median age of 37 years (range: 7 to 79 years). Primary tumor sites were peritoneum (18 patients; 72%), paratesticular (2; 8%), chest wall (1), upper extremity (1), esophagus (1), retroperitoneum (1), and uterus (1). Nine peritoneal tumors (50%) were multifocal at presentation; all other tumors were unifocal. Tumors showed bland-to-mildly-atypical neoplastic myofibroblasts in a myxoid stroma, with prominent inflammatory infiltrates in 22 cases (88%). Most tumors showed delicate branching stromal vessels like those of myxoid liposarcoma, and most showed infiltrative growth through non-neoplastic tissue. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated expression of SMA (19/25 tumors; 76%), desmin (13/22; 59%), and CD30 (5/11; 45%), while ALK was expressed in 1 tumor (of 25; 4%) that was negative for ALK rearrangement. Sequencing of 11 tumors showed seven to harbor tyrosine kinase fusions (4 PDGFRB , 2 PML :: JAK1 , 1 SEC31A :: PDGFRA ). Two instead harbored hot spot KRAS mutations (G12V and Q61H), and 2 were negative for known driving alterations. Clinical follow-up was available for 18 patients (72%; median: 2.7 years; range: 4 mo-12.3 years). Nine patients (50%) were alive with no evidence of disease, 5 (28%) died of disease, and 4 (22%) were alive with disease. Seven patients (39%) experienced peritoneal relapse or distant metastasis. Two patients showed disease progression on conventional, nontargeted chemotherapy. The patient whose tumor harbored SEC31A :: PDGFRA was treated after multiple relapses with imatinib and sunitinib therapy, with progression-free periods of 5 and 2 years, respectively. Despite its bland appearance, myxoid inflammatory myofibroblastic sarcoma harbors a significant risk for disseminated disease, particularly when it occurs in the peritoneum. Targeted therapy could be considered for patients with disseminated disease.


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Biomarcadores Tumorais , Miofibroblastos , Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Adolescente , Adulto Jovem , Criança , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Biomarcadores Tumorais/análise , Miofibroblastos/patologia , Miofibroblastos/química , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/patologia , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/genética , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/mortalidade , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/terapia , Sarcoma/patologia , Sarcoma/genética , Sarcoma/química , Sarcoma/mortalidade , Imuno-Histoquímica
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Am J Surg Pathol ; 48(1): 88-96, 2024 Jan 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38117287

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Perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasms (PEComas) are tumors of uncertain cell lineage that show a strong female predominance. Their hallmark is the presence of combined smooth muscle and melanocytic differentiation. In most cases, melanocytic differentiation is detectable only by immunohistochemistry, but there are rare reports of PEComa with extensive melanin accumulation (so-called "melanotic PEComa"). Here we report a clinicopathologic series of 7 melanotic PEComas that occurred across a wide patient age range of 21 to 82 years (median: 41 y) and with a wide anatomic distribution, including 2 cases in the pelvis and 1 case each in the gallbladder, cervix, eyelid, epidural space, and femur. All tumors were heavily pigmented and, like conventional PEComas, were composed of variably sized neoplastic cells with voluminous granular, or less commonly clear, cytoplasm with prominent nucleoli. All tumors expressed HMB45 by immunohistochemistry, and 6 of 7 showed nuclear TFE3 expression. Where tested, tumors were uniformly negative for Mart-1/Melan-A, S100, desmin, and smooth muscle actin. Molecular analysis identified TFE3 gene rearrangement in 5 of 7 cases, 4 of which were demonstrated by fluorescence in situ hybridization and one by whole-exome RNA sequencing which revealed a SFPQ::TFE3 fusion. The one tumor negative for TFE3 by immunohistochemistry was found instead to harbor a SFPQ::TFEB fusion, the first reported example to our knowledge of TFEB fusion in a PEComa. Clinical follow-up was available for 6 of 7 patients (median: 2.5 y: range: 0.75 to 7 y). The patient whose tumor harbored SFPQ::TFEB died of metastatic disease 9 months after diagnosis. The other tumors behaved in an indolent fashion: 4 patients were alive without evidence of disease at the most recent follow-up and 1 patient died of an unrelated cancer 4 years after diagnosis of the melanotic PEComa. Our results expand the morphologic and molecular spectrum of melanotic PEComa, and awareness of this rare but distinctive subtype is important to ensure accurate diagnosis within the broader family of heavily pigmented neoplasms.


Assuntos
Neoplasias , Neoplasias de Células Epitelioides Perivasculares , Humanos , Feminino , Adulto Jovem , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Masculino , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Anticorpos Monoclonais , Neoplasias de Células Epitelioides Perivasculares/genética , Fatores de Transcrição de Zíper de Leucina e Hélice-Alça-Hélix Básicos
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Surg Pathol Clin ; 16(3): 609-634, 2023 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37536892

RESUMO

Mesenchymal neoplasms of the liver can be diagnostically challenging, particularly on core needle biopsies. Here, I discuss recent updates in neoplasms that are specific to the liver (mesenchymal hamartoma, undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma, calcifying nested stromal-epithelial tumor), vascular tumors of the liver (anastomosing hemangioma, hepatic small vessel neoplasm, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, angiosarcoma), and other tumor types that can occur primarily in the liver (PEComa/angiomyolipoma, inflammatory pseudotumor-like follicular dendritic cell sarcoma, EBV-associated smooth muscle tumor, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, malignant rhabdoid tumor). Lastly, I discuss metastatic sarcomas to the liver, as well as pitfalls presented by metastatic melanoma and sarcomatoid carcinoma.


Assuntos
Hamartoma , Hemangioma , Hemangiossarcoma , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Sarcoma , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patologia , Hemangiossarcoma/patologia , Hemangioma/patologia , Sarcoma/patologia , Hamartoma/patologia
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