Detection of c-mos proto-oncogene expression in human cells.
Although the human c-mos proto-oncogene has been characterized for more than a decade, very little is known about its protein product and its expression in somatic cells. We generated three human c-mos-specific antisera and report here the detection of c-mos protein in a human neuroblastoma cell line, SK-N-BE2 (BE2). Both Western (immuno-) blot and immunoprecipitation analyses detected a p37 as the major form and p40 and p35 as minor forms of the c-mos protein. Using Northern blot analysis, 3.5- and 1.7-kb c-mos messages were detected. Using a highly sensitive method that combines reverse transcription and the polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), c-mos RNA was detected in all the human samples examined. With Western blot analysis, we further showed that c-mos proteins are expressed in cervical carcinoma-derived cell lines. This ubiquitous expression of low levels of c-mos suggests a fundamental role for the c-mos proto-oncogene.
Biological Carcinogenesis and Development Program, Inc./DynCorp, Frederick, Maryland 21702.
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D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002460:Cell Line; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D016258:Genes, mos; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009447:Neuroblastoma; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D017231:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mos / Q000032:analysis* / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D017231:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mos