title: Infrequent ras activation in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML): activating 61st codon mutation in the CML-derived cell line, IM-9.
abstract: The proto-oncogene c-N-ras frequently bears point mutations in ANLL cell DNA which endow it with the capacity to transform NIH/3T3 cells in vitro. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a neoplasm highly related to ANLL since it involves the same hematopoietic progenitor cells and ultimately transforms to a neoplasm virtually indistinguishable from acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL). Thus, we and others have examined ras genes in CML. This report confirms that ras gene activation is a very infrequent event in CML. However, a lymphoblastic cell line derived from a patient with CML did exhibit a novel second exon 61st codon activating mutation of c-N-ras.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Hospital, University of Maryland Cancer Center, Baltimore.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Needleman
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Gutheil
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kapil
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mane
mesh_terms: D003062:Codon; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D011905:Genes, ras; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D015533:Transcriptional Activation; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D012333:RNA, Messenger