title: Isolation of v-fms and its human cellular homolog.
abstract: The integrated form of McDonough FeSV proviral DNA, including cellular flanking sequences, was molecularly cloned from nonproductively transformed Fisher rat cells. Acquired cellular-derived (v-fms) sequences within the cloned proviral DNA were mapped from between 2.6 and 5.5 kb from the 5'LTR. Upon transfection, the cloned proviral DNA was biologically active; it caused induction of the transformed phenotype and the resulting transformed cells expressed the major McDonough FeSV translational product, P170gag-fms at high level. Using a series of molecular probes representing subgenomic regions of the viral v-fms gene, a cosmid library of human lung carcinoma DNA was screened for v-fms homologous sequences. Three cosmid clones containing overlapping v-fms homologous cellular DNA inserts, representing a contiguous region of cellular DNA sequence of approximately 64 kb in length, were isolated. Within this region of human genomic DNA, v-fms homologous sequences are dispersed over a total region of around 32 kb. These represent the entire human cellular homolog of v-fms, are colinear with the viral v-fms transforming gene, and contain a minimum of four intervening sequences. At least 12 regions of highly repetitive DNA sequences have been mapped in close proximity to c-fms coding sequences.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D005814:Genes, Viral; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009857:Oncogenes; D051381:Rats; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D005253:Sarcoma Viruses, Feline / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes