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Cancer tissues displayed moderate to strong cytoplasmic staining with additional membranous positivity in several tissues. Occasional nuclear staining was observed in liver and ovarian cancers. Several cases of lymphomas and urothelial cancers were weakly stained or negative.
Cancer cells generally showed moderate cytoplasmic immunoreactivity. Cases of hepatocellular carcinomas along with occasional prostate and pancreatic cancers were strongly stained. Several lymphomas were negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
HNMT
Synonyms
Description
Histamine N-methyltransferase (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
In mammals, histamine is metabolized by two major pathways: N(tau)-methylation via histamine N-methyltransferase and oxidative deamination via diamine oxidase. This gene encodes the first enzyme which is found in the cytosol and uses S-adenosyl-L-methionine as the methyl donor. In the mammalian brain, the neurotransmitter activity of histamine is controlled by N(tau)-methylation as diamine oxidase is not found in the central nervous system. A common genetic polymorphism affects the activity levels of this gene product in red blood cells. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode different proteins have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Enzymes ENZYME proteins Transferases SPOCTOPUS predicted membrane proteins Predicted intracellular proteins Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014) Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)