TY - JOUR
T1 - Activating and dominant inactivating c-KIT catalytic domain mutations in distinct clinical forms of human mastocytosis
AU - Longley, B. Jack
AU - Metcalfe, Dean D.
AU - Tharp, Michael
AU - Wang, Xiaomei
AU - Tyrrell, Lynda
AU - Lu, Shu Zhuang
AU - Heitjan, David
AU - Ma, Yongsheng
PY - 1999/2/16
Y1 - 1999/2/16
N2 - Human mastocytosis is characterized by increased mast cells. It usually occurs as a sporadic disease that is often transient and limited in children and persistent or progressive in adults. The c-KIT protooncogene encodes KIT, a tyrosine kinase that is the receptor for mast cell growth factor. Because mutated KIT can transform cells, we examined c-KIT in skin lesions of 22 patients with sporadic mastocytosis and 3 patients with familial mastocytosis. All patients with adult sporadic mastocytosis had somatic c- KIT mutations in codon 816 causing substitution of valine for aspartate and spontaneous activation of mast cell growth factor receptor (P = 0.0001). A subset of four pediatric onset cases with clinically unusual disease also had codon 816 activating mutations substituting valine, tyrosine, or phenylalanine for aspartate. Typical pediatric patients lacked 816 mutations, but limited sequencing showed three of six had a novel dominant inactivating mutation substituting lysine for glutamic acid in position 839, the site of a potential salt bridge that is highly conserved in receptor tyrosine kinases. No c-KIT mutations were found in the entire coding region of three patients with familial mastocytosis. We conclude that c-KIT somatic mutations substituting valine in position 816 of KIT are characteristic of sporadic adult mastocytosis and may cause this disease. Similar mutations causing activation of the mast cell growth factor receptor are found in children apparently at risk for extensive or persistent disease. In contrast, typical pediatric mastocytosis patients lack these mutations and may express inactivating c-KIT mutations. Familial mastocytosis, however, may occur in the absence of c-KIT coding mutations.
AB - Human mastocytosis is characterized by increased mast cells. It usually occurs as a sporadic disease that is often transient and limited in children and persistent or progressive in adults. The c-KIT protooncogene encodes KIT, a tyrosine kinase that is the receptor for mast cell growth factor. Because mutated KIT can transform cells, we examined c-KIT in skin lesions of 22 patients with sporadic mastocytosis and 3 patients with familial mastocytosis. All patients with adult sporadic mastocytosis had somatic c- KIT mutations in codon 816 causing substitution of valine for aspartate and spontaneous activation of mast cell growth factor receptor (P = 0.0001). A subset of four pediatric onset cases with clinically unusual disease also had codon 816 activating mutations substituting valine, tyrosine, or phenylalanine for aspartate. Typical pediatric patients lacked 816 mutations, but limited sequencing showed three of six had a novel dominant inactivating mutation substituting lysine for glutamic acid in position 839, the site of a potential salt bridge that is highly conserved in receptor tyrosine kinases. No c-KIT mutations were found in the entire coding region of three patients with familial mastocytosis. We conclude that c-KIT somatic mutations substituting valine in position 816 of KIT are characteristic of sporadic adult mastocytosis and may cause this disease. Similar mutations causing activation of the mast cell growth factor receptor are found in children apparently at risk for extensive or persistent disease. In contrast, typical pediatric mastocytosis patients lack these mutations and may express inactivating c-KIT mutations. Familial mastocytosis, however, may occur in the absence of c-KIT coding mutations.
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.96.4.1609
DO - 10.1073/pnas.96.4.1609
M3 - Article
C2 - 9990072
AN - SCOPUS:13044305857
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 96
SP - 1609
EP - 1614
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 4
ER -