A CELLULAR ONCOGENE IS TRANSLOCATED TO THE PHILADELPHIA-CHROMOSOME IN CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
A CELLULAR ONCOGENE IS TRANSLOCATED TO THE PHILADELPHIA-CHROMOSOME IN CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
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DOI:
10.1038/300765a0
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
STEPHENSON, JR
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作者:
DEKLEIN, A;VANKESSEL, AG;STEPHENSON, JR
The transforming genes of oncogenic retroviruses are homologous to a group of evolutionary conserved cellularoncgenes1. The human cellular homologue (c-abl) of the transforming sequence of Abelson murine leukaemia virus (A-MuLV) was recently shown2to be located on chromosome 9. The long arm of this chromosome is involved in a specific translocation with chromosome 22, the Philadelphia translocation (Ph1), t(9;22) (q34, q11), which occurs in patients with chronic myelocytic leukaemia (CML)3–5. Here we investigate whether the c-ablgene is included in this translocation. Using c-abland v-ablhybridization probes on blots of somatic cell hybrids, positive hybridization is found when the 22q−(the Philadelphia chromosome), and not the 9q+derivative of the translocation, is present in the cell hybrids. From this we conclude that in CML, c-ablsequences are translocated from chromosome 9 to chromosome 22q−. This finding is a direct demonstration of a reciprocal exchange between the two chromosomes6and suggests a role for the c-ablgene in the generation of CML.