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Cytogenetic location: 7p12-cen Genomic coordinates (GRCh38): 7:45,400,001-60,100,001
The TTIM1 gene is involved in the induction of invasive and metastatic potential in interspecies T-cell hybrids (summary by Habets et al., 1992).
Collard et al. (1987) presented evidence for the existence of genes controlling invasion and metastasis of malignant tumors. Their evidence came from somatic cell fusion studies. Noninvasive, nonmetastatic mouse T-lymphoma cells were fused with invasive human T cells. The human cells were either activated normal peripheral blood lymphocytes or leukemic T lymphoblasts. Both fusions resulted in highly invasive human-mouse T-cell hybrids which metastasized in nude mice. By continued in vitro selection for invasive cells, Collard et al. (1987) were able to isolate invasive hybrids that had lost all human chromosomes except chromosome 7. Collard et al. (1987) presented other evidence that human chromosome 7 is involved in invasive and metastatic characteristics of neoplasms. See also Collard et al. (1988, 1989).
To sublocalize the invasion-inducing locus on chromosome 7, Habets et al. (1992) generated hybrids containing only specific regions of human chromosome 7 with or without a small fragment of human chromosome 21. Analysis of these hybrids demonstrated that the invasion-inducing locus, TTIM1, resides on 7p12-cen. Habets et al. (1992) sublocalized other genes on chromosome 7: ARAF2 to 7p12-cen, ACTB (102630) to 7p15-p12, EGFR (131550) to 7p12, MDH2 (154100) to 7cen-q22, and PDGFA (173430) to 7pter-p15.
Collard, J. G., Habets, G. G. M., van der Kammen, R., Scholtes, E. Genetic basis of T-lymphoma invasion. Invasion Metastasis 9: 379-390, 1989. [PubMed: 2689385]
Collard, J. G., Roos, E., La Riviere, G., Habets, G. G. M. Genetic analysis of invasion and metastasis. Cancer Surv. 7: 691-710, 1988. [PubMed: 3072071]
Collard, J. G., van de Poll, M., Scheffer, A., Roos, E., Hopman, A. H. M., Geurts van Kessel, A. H. M., van Dongen, J. J. M. Location of genes involved in invasion and metastasis on human chromosome 7. Cancer Res. 47: 6666-6670, 1987. [PubMed: 3499980]
Habets, G. G. M., van der Kammen, R. A., Willemsen, V., Balemans, M., Wiegant, J., Collard, J. G. Sublocalization of an invasion-inducing locus and other genes on human chromosome 7. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 60: 200-205, 1992. [PubMed: 1505215] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1159/000133336]