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Cancer tissues displayed weak to moderate nuclear immunoreactivity. A few cases of malignant melanomas, ovarian and cervical cancers displayed strong positivity. Several renal, liver and prostate cancers were negative.
Most cancer tissues displayed moderate nuclear immunoreactivity. Several testicular, urothelial and colorectal cancers were strongly stained. Gliomas, melanomas, hepatocellular and renal cancers were in general weakly stained or negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
WRAP53 (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
FLJ10385, TCAB1, WDR79
Description
WD repeat containing, antisense to TP53 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes an essential component of the telomerase holoenzyme complex, a ribonucleoprotein complex required for telomere synthesis. This protein is enriched in Cajal bodies, nuclear sites of RNP processing that are important for telomerase function. It interacts with dyskerin, TERT and TERC, other components of active telomerase, and with small Cajal body RNAs (scaRNAs), which are involved in modifying splicing RNAs. This mRNA also functions as a p53 antisense transcript, that regulates endogenous p53 mRNA levels and further induction of p53 protein by targeting the 5' untranslated region of p53 mRNA. Alternatively spliced transcript variants which differ only in the 5' UTR have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2011]