The oncogene jun and nuclear signalling.
The oncogene jun and nuclear signalling.
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癌基因jun和核信号传导。
DOI:
10.1016/0968-0004(89)90268-5
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Bos,TJ
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文献类型:
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作者:
Vogt,PK;Bos,TJ
Jun is a transcription factor that can also induce oncogenic transformation. Its tional equivalence. A chimeric GCN4 DNA-binding domain is conserved from yeast to man and shows homology to derivative with its native DNA binding several other transcriptional regulators. Jun dimerizes with the fos protein through domain replaced by that of jun can an a-helical domain termed the leucine zipper, and the jun-fos heterodimers bind to function as GCN4 in yeast 4. In fact, the DNA and regulaw transcription of numerous specific unlinked genes, jun protein itself can function as GCN4 transcriptional activator in yeast, des-Conserved motifs used by transcription cancer is the oncogene jun. Over the pite the lack of homology in the aminofactors from yeast to man past year it has become evident thatjun terminal two-thirds of the molecules Programs of cell growth and differen-is an important cellular controlelement which contain the transcriptional actitiation are set in motion by short-term that interacts specifically with other vator domains 5. The structural and signals that originate with agrowth fac-proteins and with DNA, converting functional homology between a yeast tor or a hormone outside the cell and short-term signals into long-term transcription factor and an oncogene are propagated toward the nucleus by responses. Research on the control of active in vertebrate cells was exciting passage through receptors, transducer transcription and of cell growth has enough, but the decisive breakthrough and amplifierproteins, and cytoplasmic converged on this gene to provide concerning the nature of jun came protein kinases. These centripetal, exciting new insights into nuclear sig-when it was found that the human transhort-term signals elicit a long-term nailing, scription factor AP-1 binds to the same response that generates altered pat- The oncogene jun was discovered as consensus sequence as the yeast GCN4 terns of gene expression. Transcrip-a 0.93 kb, cell-derived genetic insert in protein (TGACTCA). Obviously, if tional regulatory proteins play a central the genome of the replication defective AP-1 and jun are both related to GCN4 role in this process, combining afferent retrovirus, avian sarcoma virus 17 they might be related to each other. and efferent functions to convert sig-(ASV 17), isolated from a spontaneous Several lines of evidence show that this nals into cellular responses by altering chicken sarcoma 1 (Fig. 1). ASV 17 is indeed the case 6" 7. Antisera generthe levels of transcription of specific causes fibrosarcomas in chickens; it ated against two peptides of the jun genes. Virtually all cell-surface and also induces oncogenic transformation sequence (one from within the concytoplasmic components of rapid, in avian embryonic fibroblasts in cul-served DNA-binding domain, the short-term signal chains can induce ture. The oncogenic potential of ASV other from the divergent aminooncogenesis if altered quantitatively or 17 is due to the presence of thejun gene terminal region of the molecule), react qualitatively. Until recently tran-in the ASV 17 genome-the jun specifically with a 40 kDa protein in scriptional regulators had not been sequence excised from ASV 17 and DNA affinity-purified preparations of shown to harbor oncogenic potential, placed into a non-transforming retro-AP-1. A humanjun clone expressed in although there is evidence tying several viral vector confers ASV 17-type onco-bacteria codes for a protein that binds oncogenes to the control of tran-genicity to that vector 2. The first to theAP-1 DNA consensus sequence. scription. The first definitive example indication that jun might be of more Mutants of the consensus sequence to of a …