title: Mechanism of activation of an N-ras gene in the human fibrosarcoma cell line HT1080.
abstract: A full length N-ras gene has been cloned from both the human fibrosarcoma cell line HT1080 and from normal human DNA. N-ras isolated from HT1080 will efficiently induce morphological transformation of NIH/3T3 cells in a transfection assay, whereas N-ras isolated from normal human DNA has no effect on NIH/3T3 cells. The coding regions of the normal N-ras gene have been sequenced and the predicted amino acid sequence of the N-ras product is very similar to that of the c-Ha-ras1 and c-Ki-ras2 products. By making chimeric molecules between the two cloned genes the activating alteration in the HT1080 N-ras gene has been localised to a single base change that results in an amino acid alteration at position 61 of the p21 N-ras product.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002678:Chimera; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009857:Oncogenes
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes