New somatic BRAF splicing mutation in Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

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New somatic BRAF splicing mutation in Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Mol Cancer. 2017 Jul 06;16(1):115

Authors: Héritier S, Hélias-Rodzewicz Z, Chakraborty R, Sengal AG, Bellanné-Chantelot C, Thomas C, Moreau A, Fraitag S, Allen CE, Donadieu J, Emile JF

Abstract
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is an inflammatory myeloid neoplasia with constitutive activation of the MAPKinase RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK cell signaling pathway. We analyzed 9 LCH cases without BRAF V600 and MAP2K1 mutations by whole exome sequencing. We identified a new somatic BRAF splicing mutation in 2 cases. Both cases were childhood single system (SS) LCH cases, with self-healing outcome of the bone lesions. This mutant consisted in a 9 base pair duplication (c.1511_1517 + 2 duplication), encoding for a predicted mutant protein with insertion of 3 amino acids (p.Arg506_Lys507insLeuLeuArg) in the N-terminal lobe of the kinase domain of BRAF. Transient expression of the c.1511_1517 + 2dup BRAF mutant in HEK293 cells enhanced MAPKinase pathway activation, and was not inhibited by vemurafenib but was inhibited by PLX8394, a second-generation BRAF inhibitor able to inhibit signaling of BRAF monomers and dimers. Future LCH molecular screening panel should include this new mutation to better define its prevalence in LCH and its restriction to autoregressive bone SS LCH.

PMID: 28679432 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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