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Most cancer tissues showed weak to moderate granular cytoplasmic positivity. Several cases of colorectal, testis and liver cancers along with rare ovarian, endometrial, pancreatic cancers, lymphoma, carcinoid and melanoma showed strong positivity.
The protein encoded by this gene is a molecular chaperone that is a member of the chaperonin containing TCP1 complex (CCT), also known as the TCP1 ring complex (TRiC). This complex consists of two identical stacked rings, each containing eight different proteins. Unfolded polypeptides enter the central cavity of the complex and are folded in an ATP-dependent manner. The complex folds various proteins, including actin and tubulin. Alternate transcriptional splice variants of this gene, encoding different isoforms, have been characterized. In addition, several pseudogenes of this gene have been located. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2010]