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Activation of a cellular oncogene by DNA rearrangement: possible involvement of an IS-like element

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The cellular oncogene c-mos is rearranged in a mouse myeloma and the tumour mRNA contains transcripts hybridizing with a v-mos probe. The rearranged gene (rc-mos) was cloned in λ phage and shown to transform mouse fibroblasts in transfection assays. rc-mos differs from its progenitor, c-mos, only at the 5′ end of the gene, where c-mos sequences have been substituted by a novel cellular DNA fragment. This fragment contains a 159-base pair (bp) insertion sequence (IS)-like element localized immediately 5′ to the junction with c-mos. This is the first demonstration in a non-virally-induced tumour of activation of a cellular oncogene by a mechanism possibly involving DNA transposition.

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Rechavi, G., Givol, D. & Canaani, E. Activation of a cellular oncogene by DNA rearrangement: possible involvement of an IS-like element. Nature 300, 607–611 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/300607a0

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