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Structural highlights

Disease

STIL_HUMAN Precursor T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia;Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly. A chromosomal aberration involving STIL may be a cause of some T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias (T-ALL). A deletion at 1p32 between STIL and TAL1 genes leads to STIL/TAL1 fusion mRNA with STIL exon 1 slicing to TAL1 exon 3. As both STIL exon 1 and TAL1 exon 3 are 5'-untranslated exons, STIL/TAL1 fusion mRNA predicts a full length TAL1 protein under the control of the STIL promoter, leading to inappropriate TAL1 expression. In childhood T-cell malignancies (T-ALL), a type of defect such as STIL/TAL1 fusion is associated with a good prognosis. In cultured lymphocytes from healthy adults, STIL/TAL1 fusion mRNA may be detected after 7 days of culture. The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry.

Function

STIL_HUMAN Immediate-early gene. Plays an important role in embryonic development as well as in cellular growth and proliferation; its long-term silencing affects cell survival and cell cycle distribution as well as decreases CDK1 activity correlated with reduced phosphorylation of CDK1. Plays a role as a positive regulator of the sonic hedgehog pathway, acting downstream of PTCH1.^{[1] [2]}

References

1. ↑ Campaner S, Kaldis P, Izraeli S, Kirsch IR. Sil phosphorylation in a Pin1 binding domain affects the duration of the spindle checkpoint. Mol Cell Biol. 2005 Aug;25(15):6660-72. PMID:16024801 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.25.15.6660-6672.2005
2. ↑ Izraeli S, Colaizzo-Anas T, Bertness VL, Mani K, Aplan PD, Kirsch IR. Expression of the SIL gene is correlated with growth induction and cellular proliferation. Cell Growth Differ. 1997 Nov;8(11):1171-9. PMID:9372240