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A majority of cancer tissues showed weak to moderate cytoplasmic and nucleolar staining. Ovarian cancers and cervical squamous cell carcinomas showed moderate to strong positivity. Several cases of thyroid, colorectal and gastric cancers were weakly stained or negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
SNX15
Synonyms
Description
Sorting nexin 15 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a member of the sorting nexin family. Members of this family contain a phox (PX) domain, which is a phosphoinositide binding domain, and are involved in intracellular trafficking. Overexpression of this gene results in a decrease in the processing of insulin and hepatocyte growth factor receptors to their mature subunits. This decrease is caused by the mislocalization of furin, the endoprotease responsible for cleavage of insulin and hepatocyte growth factor receptors. This protein is involved in endosomal trafficking from the plasma membrane to recycling endosomes or the trans-Golgi network. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Read-through transcription also exists between this gene and the upstream ADP-ribosylation factor-like 2 (ARL2) gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]