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Most of the malignant cells displayed moderate cytoplasmic and occasional nuclear and membranous positivity. Several cases of cervical, skin, urothelial, colorectal and prostate cancers exhibited strong immunoreactivity. Most cases of malignant carcinoids, gliomas and melanomas were weakly stained.
Weak to moderate nuclear and/or cytoplasmic positivity was observed in a majority of malignancies. A few cases of colorectal cancers were strongly stained.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
PKP1 (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
B6P
Description
Plakophilin 1 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a member of the arm-repeat (armadillo) and plakophilin gene families. Plakophilin proteins contain numerous armadillo repeats, localize to cell desmosomes and nuclei, and participate in linking cadherins to intermediate filaments in the cytoskeleton. This protein may be involved in molecular recruitment and stabilization during desmosome formation. Mutations in this gene have been associated with the ectodermal dysplasia/skin fragility syndrome. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2010]
SCAMPI predicted membrane proteins Predicted intracellular proteins Plasma proteins Disease related genes Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014) Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)