Absence of activating mutations in the GnRH receptor gene in human pituitary gonadotroph adenomas.

Abstract:

:The monoclonal origin of gonadotropin-secreting pituitary adenomas has been well demonstrated but only few molecular abnormalities have so far been recognized in these tumors. For many years, several authors have suggested a role for GnRH and/or GnRH receptors (GnRH-R) in the development of these pituitary adenomas. To test the hypothesis that mutant genes encoding a constitutively activated GnRH-R might be involved in the pathogenesis of these tumors, the sequence of the GnRH-R gene was analyzed in tumoral pituitary tissue obtained from ten patients (six female, four male). The pituitary gonadotropin-secreting adenoma was associated with in vivo hypersecretion of FSH, LH and/or free alpha-subunit (n = 7) or was clinically silent (normal plasma levels of gonadotropins or free alpha-subunit, n = 3). In all cases, immunocytochemical studies of the removed adenoma confirmed their gonadotroph nature by revealing positivity for FSH, LH and/or alpha-subunit. Genomic DNA was extracted from the pathological tissue obtained at neurosurgery. Eight sequencing primers were used to amplify the three exons of the GnRH-R gene from tumoral DNA. The entire coding sequence of the GnRH-R gene was sequenced in the ten adenomas. No mutation was found in any of the tumor specimens examined. In conclusion, mutations in the GnRH receptor coding sequence occur infrequently if at all in gonadotropin-secreting pituitary adenomas.

journal_name

Eur J Endocrinol

authors

Chanson P,De Roux N,Young J,Bidart JM,Jacquet P,Misrahi M,Milgrom E,Schaison G

doi

10.1530/eje.0.1390157

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-08-01 00:00:00

pages

157-60

issue

2

eissn

0804-4643

issn

1479-683X

journal_volume

139

pub_type

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