title: Isolation of ret proto-oncogene cDNA with an amino-terminal signal sequence.
abstract: Our recent studies suggested that the ret proto-oncogene protein is a cell surface receptor with a tyrosine kinase domain. However, the sequence of its cDNA lacked an amino-terminal signal sequence characteristic of membrane proteins. In the present study we have isolated and sequenced an additional cDNA clone. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA obtained indicated that the 5' terminal 330 nucleotides differs from the published sequence of the ret proto-oncogene. In addition, the sequence contains an open reading frame with an amino-terminal signal sequence.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Buma
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hiai
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003062:Codon; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals / Q000235:genetics*; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; D011519:Proto-Oncogenes; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C416649:Ret protein, Drosophila