PNL2

This monoclonal antibody was originally generated against the human somatostatin receptor but shows no reactivity with the immunizing antigen. Rather, it appears to be a useful melanocytic marker, although the antigen has not yet been identified.

Immunohistochemical expression

Immunoreactivity is cytoplasmic and often granular4.  Normal tissues are negative, apart from neutrophils and cutaneous melanocytes1.

 

Compound naevus

15/151

staining most prominent in junctional and superficial dermal melanocytes, similar to the pattern with HMB45

 

Dysplastic naevus

15/151

 

Blue naevus

2/21

homogenous diffuse positivity

Pigmented naevus 25/274  
 

 

PNL2

Melan-A

HMB45

Tyrosinase

MitF

positive for all markers

negative for all markers

positive ONLY for PNL2

 

Primary epithelioid melanoma

13/131

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metastatic melanoma

33/381, 190/2144

31/381

29/381

35/381

32/381

26/381

1/381

2/381

Desmoplastic melanoma

1/131, 2/344

1/131

1/131

0/131

1/131

 

 

 

Non-desmoplastic spindle cell melanoma

4/51

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mucosal melanoma

48/544

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clear cell sarcoma

16/164

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angiomyolipoma

10/101, 14/174

18/182

18/182

1/153

15/153

 

 

 

PEComa

15/164

             
Lymphangioleiomyoma

7/74

             
                 

Staining is strongest in epithelioid melanomas1.

 

Lung

squamous carcinoma

0/11, 0/544

 

large cell carcinoma

0/454

adenocarcinoma

0/11, 0/324

Breast

ductal carcinoma

0/51, 0/664

lobular carcinoma

0/51, 0/54

Sarcomatoid carcinoma, intestine / larynx

0/394

Squamous cell carcinoma larynx

0/314

Squamous cell carcinoma oesophagus

0/254

Stomach, adenocarcinoma

0/484

Colon, adenocarcinoma

0/11, 0/484

Liver, cholangiocarcinoma

0/204

Liver, hepatocellular carcinoma

0/394

Pancreas, adenocarcinoma

0/274

Renal clear cell carcinoma

0/51

Ovarian carcinoma

0/51, 0/344

Endometrium, adenocarcinoma

0/204

Squamous cell carcinoma cervix

0/224

Transitional cell carcinoma, bladder

0/51, 0/254

Prostate, adenocarcinoma

0/504

Embryonal carcinoma testis

0/224

Seminoma testis

0/434

Thyroid carcinoma

0/534

Fibrosarcoma

0/41

Leiomyosarcoma

0/31

GIST, stomach and intestine

0/1034

Liposarcoma

0/51

Cellular dermatofibroma

0/51

Neurofibroma

0/51, 0/424

Schwannoma

0/174

Atypical fibroxanthoma

0/21

Cellular neurothekeoma

0/21

Granular cell tumour

0/11

MPNST

1/131, 0/214

Melanotic Schwannoma

1/11

AML

0/51

CML

3/31, 6/64

diffuse large B-cell lymphoma 0/204
small B-cell lymphoma 0/174
blastic extramedullary myeloid tumour 0/114
Malignant mesothelioma 0/314
Merkel cell carcinoma 0/44
Angiosarcoma

0/144

solitary fibrous tumour / haemangiopericytoma

0/364

malignant fibrous histiocytoma

0/324

meningioma

0/1644

nodular fasciitis

0/154

synovial sarcoma 0/144
   
   
   

Diagnostic utility

References

1Busam KJ, Kucukgol D, Sato E, Frosina D, Teruya-Feldstein J,Jungbluth AA Immunohistochemical Analysis of Novel Monoclonal Antibody PNL2 and Comparison With Other Melanocyte Differentiation Markers. Am J Surg Pathol 2005; 29:400-406: this study was largely based on tissue micro-arrays.

2Jungbluth AA, Iversen K, Coplan K, et al. Expression of melanocyte-associated markers gp-100 and Melan-A/MART-1 in angiomyolipomas. An immunohistochemical and rt-PCR analysis. Virchows Arch 1999; 434:429-35

3Jungbluth AA, King R, Fisher DE, et al. Immunohistochemical and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction expression analysis of tyrosinase and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor in angiomyolipomas. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 2001; 9:29-34

4 Aung PP, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Lasota J, Lai JP, Wang ZF, Miettinen M. KBA62 and PNL2: 2 new melanoma markers-immunohistochemical analysis of 1563 tumors including metastatic, desmoplastic, and mucosal melanomas and their mimics. Am J Surg Pathol. 2012 Feb;36(2):265-72.

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