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Most malignant tissues were negative or showed occasional weak to moderate cytoplasmic and membranous immunoreactivity. Some tumors showed a granular staining pattern. A few lung cancers were stronger stained.
Most malignant cells showed either strong immunoreactivity or were weakly stained or negative. Strong staining was observed in colorectal, breast, ovarian, cervical, lung, stomach and pancreatic cancers.
This gene encodes a protein that belongs to the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) family whose members are glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol (GPI) anchored cell surface glycoproteins. Members of this family play a role in cell adhesion and are widely used as tumor markers in serum immunoassay determinations of carcinoma. This gene affects the sensitivity of tumor cells to adenovirus infection. The protein encoded by this gene acts as a receptor for adherent-invasive E. coli adhesion to the surface of ileal epithelial cells in patients with Crohn's disease. This gene is clustered with genes and pseudogenes of the cell adhesion molecules subgroup of the CEA family on chromosome 19. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2014]