Chromosomal localization of human cellular homologues of two viral oncogenes
Abstract
Acute transforming RNA tumour viruses represent genetic recombinants between type C retro viral sequences and transformation-specific sequences of cellular origin. Of the known mammalian cell-derived transforming genes (oncogenes), two have been shown to encode proteins with either intrinsic or highly associated tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity. One such gene, c-fes, is of cat cellular origin, while the second, c-abl, was derived from mouse cellular sequences. We now show that the human equivalents of c-fes and c-abl are localized on human chromosomes 15 and 9, respectively. These findings exclude the possibility that these transformation-related genes are clustered at a single locus within the human genome. It is of interest that both of these chromosomes are involved in specific rearrangements found in certain forms of human cancer.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- October 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1038/299747a0
- Bibcode:
- 1982Natur.299..747H