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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Christopher Jones, Dr Niamh Leonard, Pamela Chapman, Professor Sir John BurnORCiD
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Familial cylindromatosis is an autosomal dominant genetic predisposition to multiple tumours of the skin appendages. The susceptibility gene (CYLD) has previously been localized to chromosome 16q and has the genetic attributes of a tumour-suppressor gene (recessive oncogene). Here we have identified CYLD by detecting germline mutations in 21 cylindromatosis families and somatic mutations in 1 sporadic and 5 familial cylindromas. All mutations predict truncation or absence of the encoded protein. CYLD encodes three cytoskeletal-associated-protein-glycine-conserved (CAP-GLY) domains, which are found in proteins that coordinate the attachment of organelles to microtubules. CYLD also has sequence homology to the catalytic domain of ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolases (UCH).
Author(s): Bignell GR, Warren W, Seal S, Takahashi M, Rapley E, Barfoot R, Green H, Brown C, Biggs PJ, Lakhani SR, Jones C, Hansen J, Blair E, Hofmann B, Siebert R, Turner G, Gareth Evans D, Schrander-Stumpel C, Beemer FA, Van Den Ouweland A, Halley D, Delpech B, Cleveland MG, Leigh I, Leisti J, Rasmussen S, Wallace MR, Fenske C, Banerjee P, Oiso N, Chaggar R, Merrett S, Leonard N, Huber M, Hohl D, Chapman P, Burn J, Swift S, Smith A, Ashworth A, Stratton MR
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Nature Genetics
Year: 2000
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 160-165
ISSN (print): 1061-4036
ISSN (electronic): 1546-1718
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/76006
DOI: 10.1038/76006
PubMed id: 10835629
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