title: Cloning of an activated human ret gene with a novel 5' sequence fused by DNA rearrangement.
abstract: By transfecting a high-Mr DNA from human stomach cancer into NIH3T3 cells, a transforming sequence that showed homology with the human ret gene was identified. The transforming sequence was found to be generated by a DNA rearrangement in the human ret proto-oncogene. This rearrangement was suggested to have occurred during the transfection procedure. The nucleotide sequences of cDNAs of the rearranged ret gene and deduced amino acid (aa) sequences revealed that the rearrangement had resulted in recombination of the 3' segment of the ret proto-oncogene with a segment of an unknown human sequence, and that the recombination had generated a novel gene encoding a fusion protein of 435 aa. The rearrangement was presumed to be responsible for activation of the ret gene.
authors.affiliation: Imamichi Institute for Animal Reproduction, Ibaraki, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kunieda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsui
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ishizaki
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; D011519:Proto-Oncogenes / Q000235:genetics*; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014162:Transfection / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C416649:Ret protein, Drosophila; C494999:Ret protein, mouse