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The American Journal of Surgical Pathology:
March 2006 - Volume 30 - Issue 3 - pp 351-356
doi: 10.1097/01.pas.0000194043.01104.eb
Original Articles

Generation of the Novel Monoclonal Antibody Against TLS/EWS-CHOP Chimeric Oncoproteins That Is Applicable to One of the Most Sensitive Assays for Myxoid and Round Cell Liposarcomas

Oikawa, Kosuke PhD; Ishida, Tsuyoshi MD; Imamura, Tetsuo MD; Yoshida, Keiichi MS; Takanashi, Masakatsu PhD; Hattori, Hiroyuki MD; Ishikawa, Akio; Fujita, Koji; Yamamoto, Kengo MD; Matsubayashi, Jun MD; Kuroda, Masahiko MD; Mukai, Kiyoshi MD

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Abstract

The fusion oncoproteins, TLS-CHOP and EWS-CHOP, are characteristic markers for myxoid and round cell liposarcomas (MLS/RCLS). Especially, the peptide sequence of 26 amino acids corresponding to the normally untranslated CHOP exon 2 and parts of exon 3 (5′-UTR) is a unique structure for these chimeric proteins. In this report, we have generated monoclonal antibodies against the unique peptide sequence of TLS/EWS-CHOP oncoproteins. These antibodies reacted with TLS-CHOP fusion protein, but not reacted with normal TLS and CHOP proteins by Western blot analysis. In addition, one of the antibodies also recognized the chimeric oncoprotein in archival paraffin-embedded tissue samples of MLS/RCLS. The oncoprotein was detectable by the antibody even in the paraffin-embedded tissue samples whose mRNAs were too degraded to be detected by a nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction-based assay. Thus, the molecular assay using the novel antibody is expected to be one of the most sensitive diagnostic assays for MLS/RCLS.

© 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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