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Translocation, breakage and truncated transcripts of c-myc oncogene in murine plasmacytomas

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Comparative nucleotide sequence analysis of a rearranged c-myc gene in a murine plasmacytoma and c-myc cDNA from normal spleen reveals that chromosomal translocation in the plasmacytoma breaks the c-myc gene within the first exon or intron. In the plasmacytoma truncated c-myc RNAs initiate from newly exposed promoter sites. Nevertheless, the myc polypeptide produced in the plasmacytoma is probably the same as that from the intact c-myc gene because the exon lost by breakage and translocation is non-coding. The second and third exons of the mouse c-myc gene are substantially conserved in the v-myc gene of the avian retrovirus, MC29.

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Stanton, L., Watt, R. & Marcu, K. Translocation, breakage and truncated transcripts of c-myc oncogene in murine plasmacytomas. Nature 303, 401–406 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/303401a0

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