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Breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancers along with several cases of ovarian, prostate, cervical urothelial, renal and gastric cancers showed moderate to strong cytoplasmic positivity. Additional membranous staining was observed in several cases. Remaining cancer tissues were mainly negative.
One case of papillary adenocarcinoma of thyroid and one ovarian cancer displayed moderate cytoplasmic positivity. Remaining cancer cells were negative.
DEAD box proteins, characterized by the conserved motif Asp-Glu-Ala-Asp (DEAD), are putative RNA helicases. They are implicated in a number of cellular processes involving alteration of RNA secondary structure such as translation initiation, nuclear and mitochondrial splicing, and ribosome and spliceosome assembly. Based on their distribution patterns, some members of this DEAD box protein family are believed to be involved in embryogenesis, spermatogenesis, and cellular growth and division. This gene encodes a member of this family. It is mapped to the glioma 19q tumor suppressor region and is a tumor suppressor candidate gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]