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Most skin cancers along with a few cases of cervical, breast, urothelial, head and neck cancers showed moderate to strong cytoplasmic staining. Remaining malignant cells were mainly negative.
Strong cytoplasmic positivity was observed in a single case of head and neck cancer. Subsets of blood vessels in tumor stroma of several cancer tissues showed moderate to strong cytoplasmic positivity. Tumor cells were weakly stained or negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
BMX (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
ETK, PSCTK3
Description
BMX non-receptor tyrosine kinase (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a non-receptor tyrosine kinase belonging to the Tec kinase family. The protein contains a PH-like domain, which mediates membrane targeting by binding to phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate (PIP3), and a SH2 domain that binds to tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins and functions in signal transduction. The protein is implicated in several signal transduction pathways including the Stat pathway, and regulates differentiation and tumorigenicity of several types of cancer cells. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified.[provided by RefSeq, Sep 2009]