title: Genomic organization and nucleotide sequence of the coding region of the chicken c-Rmil(B-raf-1) proto-oncogene.
abstract: c-Rmil is the cellular allele of the v-Rmil oncogene, transduced during in vitro passaging of Rous associated virus type 1 in chicken embryonic neuroretina (NR) cells. The c-Rmil proto-oncogene is the avian homolog of the mammalian B-raf gene and belongs to the mil/raf oncogene family of serine/threonine protein kinases. We recently reported that the avian c-Rmil gene encodes two proteins of 94 and 95 kDa, resulting from an alternative splicing mechanism. We describe here the exon-intron organization of the coding region of the chicken c-Rmil locus. We show that c-Rmil proteins are encoded by 19 exons lying within about 100 kbp of genomic DNA. Comparison of the organization of this gene with those of the other mil/raf genes shows strong similarities within three conserved domains previously identified in mil/raf protein kinases. However, c-Rmil contains two additional 5' coding exons that are not present in the other mil/raf genes.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherche Associée 1443 du CNRS, Institut Curie, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Calogeraki
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Barnier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eychene
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Felder
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Calothy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marx
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D015342:DNA Probes; D005091:Exons; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism; D015698:Genomic Library; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D019908:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf; D011519:Proto-Oncogenes; D011784:Quail / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D019908:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf