| Identity |
| Other names | KIAA0621 |
| OPHN1L | |
| HGNC (Hugo) | ARHGAP26 |
| Location | 5q31 |
| Location_base_pair | Starts at 142130476 and ends at 142588764 bp from pter ( according to hg18-Mar_2006) [Mapping] |
| Local_order | just centromeric of GRL |
| DNA/RNA |
| Description | at least 24 exons |
| Transcription | two isoforms of 2277 bp (leukocytes) and 2442 bp (brain); transcripts of 4,4 and 9,5 kb |
| Protein |
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| Description | isoform A: 759 amino acids, 86 kDa; isoform B: 814 amino acids. 92 kDa |
| Expression | highly expressed in epithelial tissues i.e. pancreas islet beta-cells, testicles, prostate, mammary gland, GI glands, squamous layer of skin epithelium; highly expressed in nervous tissues including enteric ganglia; expressed in cardiomyocytes, erythropoiesis cells and liver |
| Localisation | mainly cytoplasmatic |
| Function | interacts with FAK and RhoA both in vivo and in vitro; acts as GTPase activating protein (GAP) for the active GTP-bound RhoA.; negative regulator of RhoA |
| Homology | Oligophrenin-1, Beta-chimerin, BCR |
| Mutations |
| Germinal | not known |
| Somatic | GRAF-base 1144, 5' 1 TA GAG ACA GGA TTT CAT CAT GTT GGC CAG GTT GGT TTT GAA GRAF-base 1285, 5' 1 TC ATC GTT GTC ATA TAA ATC GGC GAG GTA ATA TTC CAT CAG GRAF-base 1988 5' 1 G GTT CAT GCG AGT TCA GCA AGC AGT TAC CAT GTC TAC GGC |
| Implicated in |
| Entity | t(5;11)(q31;q23) / acute non lymphocytic leukemia --> MLL - GRAF |
| Disease | acute non lymphocytic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome with del(5q) |
| Prognosis | unknown; only a few cases unknown |
| Cytogenetics | del(5q) |
| Hybrid/Mutated Gene | 5' MLL 3' GRAF |
| Abnormal Protein | MLL-GRAF |
| Oncogenesis | basically unknown; a bi-allelic loss of GRAF has been documented in three cases of ANLL |
| External links |
| Bibliography |
| The human GRAF gene is fused to MLL in a unique t(5;11)(q31;q23) and both alleles are disrupted in three cases of myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia with a deletion 5q. |
| Borkhardt A, Bojesen S, Haas OA, Fuchs U, Bartelheimer D, Loncarevic IF, Bohle RM, Harbott J, Repp R, Jaeger U, Viehmann S, Henn T, Korth P, Scharr D, Lampert F |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2000 ; 97 (16) : 9168-9173. |
| PMID 10908648 |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic search in PubMed |
| Contributor(s) |
| Written | 11-2000 | Stig Bojesen, Arndt Borkhardt |
| Dept. clinical biochemistry, Copenhagen Univeristy hospiatl, Rigshospitalet Blegdamsvej 9 DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Bojesen SE, Borkhardt A . GRAF (GTPase activating protein for Rho associated with FAK). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. November 2000 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/GRAFID291.html |
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