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Detection of Alternative Splicing During Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
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La expresión del proto-oncogén H-ras está controlada por splicing alternativo
J B Cohen1, S D Broz, A D Levinson
1Department of Cell Genetics, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080.
Cell
|August 11, 1989
Resumen
Una mutación en el oncogén H-ras.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Los oncogenes son oncogenes.
- Regulación genética Reglamento genético.
Sus antecedentes:
- Un estudio anterior mostró que una mutación puntual en el último intrón del oncogén H-ras aumenta la expresión y la eficiencia de transformación.
- La base molecular de este fenómeno requiere una aclaración.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Identificar la base del aumento de la expresión oncogénica de H-ras y la eficiencia de transformación debido a una mutación puntual específica.
- Investigar el papel de los elementos intrónicos en la regulación de la expresión H-ras.
Principales métodos:
- Se realizaron experimentos de reconstrucción genética.
- Se introdujeron alteraciones de nucleótidos para identificar elementos funcionales.
- El análisis de la nucleasa S1 se utilizó para detectar y cuantificar las transcripciones.
- Se analizaron eventos de empalme alternativos.
Principales resultados:
- Un elemento de acción negativa dentro del intrón H-ras fue identificado e inactivado por la mutación.
- Este elemento fue caracterizado como un potencial exon alternativo.
- Se demostró que la mutación impide la síntesis de transcripciones que contienen este exón alternativo.
- Estas transcripciones alternativas están presentes en baja abundancia debido a la inestabilidad o defectos de procesamiento.
- El producto proteico predicho de la transcripción alternativa carece de potencial transformador.
Conclusiones:
- El empalme alternativo normalmente suprime la expresión de p21H-ras.
- Las mutaciones que interrumpen este proceso de empalme alternativo eliminan el control negativo, lo que lleva a una mayor expresión oncogénica y potencial de transformación.
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