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Cancer cells displayed weak to moderate cytoplasmic immunoreactivity. Several prostate cancers along with a few melanomas, endometrial, thyroid and liver cancers were strongly stained.
Most cancers showed weak cytoplasmic staining or were negative. Several melanomas, hepatocellular, colorectal, breast and urothelial cancers as well as fractions of cases on several other cancers were moderately stained.
This gene encodes a receptor for both insulin-like growth factor 2 and mannose 6-phosphate. The binding sites for each ligand are located on different segments of the protein. This receptor has various functions, including in the intracellular trafficking of lysosomal enzymes, the activation of transforming growth factor beta, and the degradation of insulin-like growth factor 2. Mutation or loss of heterozygosity of this gene has been association with risk of hepatocellular carcinoma. The orthologous mouse gene is imprinted and shows exclusive expression from the maternal allele; however, imprinting of the human gene may be polymorphic, as only a minority of individuals showed biased expression from the maternal allele (PMID:8267611). [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2015]