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Mol. Cell. Biol., May 1995, 2754-2762, Vol 15, No. 5
X Lin, PJ Nelson, B Frankfort, E Tombler, R Johnson and IH Gelman
In an attempt to isolate novel regulatory and/or tumor suppressor genes, we
identified cDNAs whose abundance is low in NIH 3T3 cells and further
decreased following the expression of the activated oncogene, v- src. The
transcription of one such gene, 322, is suppressed at least 15- fold in
src-, ras-, and fos-transformed cells and 3-fold in myc- transformed cells
but is unaffected in raf-, mos-, or neu-transformed cells. Activation of a
ts-v-src allele in confluent 3Y1 fibroblasts resulted in an initial
increase in 322 mRNA levels after 1 to 2 h followed by a rapid decrease to
suppressed levels after 4 to 8 h. Morphological transformation was not
detected until 12 h later, indicating that the accumulation of 322
transcripts is regulated by v- src and not as a consequence of
transformation. Addition of fetal calf serum to starved subconfluent NIH
3T3 or 3Y1 fibroblasts resulted in a similar biphasic regulation of 322,
indicating that 322 transcription is responsive to mitogenic factors.
Sequence analysis of a putative full-length 322 cDNA clone (5.4 kb)
identified a large open reading frame (ORF) encoding a 148.1-kDa product.
In vitro transcription and translation of the 322 cDNA from a T7 promoter
resulted in a 207-kDa product whose electrophoretic mobility on a sodium
dodecyl sulfate- polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis gel was unaffected by
digestion with endoglycosidase F. The discrepancy in predicted versus
measured molecular weights may result from the high percentage of acidic
residues (roughly 20% Glu or Asp) in the 322 ORF product.(ABSTRACT
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Isolation and characterization of a novel mitogenic regulatory gene, 322, which is transcriptionally suppressed in cells transformed by src and ras
Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA.
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