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Most cancers showed moderate nuclear positivity. Several cases of lung, urothelial, testis cancers and glioma along with rare colorectal, breast, ovarian, cervical, thyroid, skin cancers and melanoma showed strong positivity. The majority of renal and liver cancers were weakly stained or negative.
A majority of testicular cancers as well as several cases of melanoma, thyroid, colorectal, gastric, pancreatic and urothelial cancer displayed moderate nucleolar positivity. Additional distinct cytoplasmic positivity was observed in melanomas. Other cancer cells were in general weakly stained or negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
SIRT7
Synonyms
Description
Sirtuin 7 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a member of the sirtuin family of proteins, homologs to the yeast Sir2 protein. Members of the sirtuin family are characterized by a sirtuin core domain and grouped into four classes. The functions of human sirtuins have not yet been determined; however, yeast sirtuin proteins are known to regulate epigenetic gene silencing and suppress recombination of rDNA. Studies suggest that the human sirtuins may function as intracellular regulatory proteins with mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase activity. The protein encoded by this gene is included in class IV of the sirtuin family. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]