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Genesis of a virus-transforming gene
National Cancer Institute Monograph
|May 1, 1978
Abstract:
The gene src responsible for neoplastic transformation of fibroblasts by avian sarcoma viruses was apparently derived from highly conserved nucleotide sequences in the normal avian genome. The cellular homologue of src is unlinked to the genome of an endogenous virus in chicken cells and functions in an unknown manner during normal cell metabolism.