Nature Communications (May 2020)

Somatic SF3B1 hotspot mutation in prolactinomas

  • Chuzhong Li,
  • Weiyan Xie,
  • Jared S. Rosenblum,
  • Jianyu Zhou,
  • Jing Guo,
  • Yazhou Miao,
  • Yutao Shen,
  • Hongyun Wang,
  • Lei Gong,
  • Mingxuan Li,
  • Sida Zhao,
  • Sen Cheng,
  • Haibo Zhu,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Shiying Ling,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Hongwei Zhang,
  • Mingshan Zhang,
  • Yanming Qu,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Guilin Li,
  • Junmei Wang,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Zhengping Zhuang,
  • Yazhuo Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16052-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The genetic basis of prolactinomas remains poorly understood. Here, the authors find a recurrent hotspot somatic mutation in the splicing factor 3 subunit B1 (SF3B1 R625H ) in prolactinomas, and show that this mutation causes aberrant splicing of ESRRG mRNA leading to up-regulation of prolactin.