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. 1986 Feb;6(2):380–392. doi: 10.1128/mcb.6.2.380

Two modes of c-myb activation in virus-induced mouse myeloid tumors.

G L Shen-Ong, H C Morse 3rd, M Potter, J F Mushinski
PMCID: PMC367527  PMID: 3023843

Abstract

Two modes of disruption of the protooncogene c-myb by viral insertional mutagenesis in mouse myeloid tumor cells are described. The first mode was found in six tumors in which a Moloney murine leukemia virus component had inserted in the same transcriptional orientation upstream of the 5'-most exon with v-myb homology (vE1). cDNA sequence data indicate the presence of a truncated c-myb mRNA that is initiated in the upstream 5' long terminal repeat of the integrated provirus and processed via a cryptic splice donor sequence in the gag region to the splice acceptor site in vE1 of the c-myb gene, thus removing the remaining downstream viral and myb intronic sequences. Unlike most gag-onc transcripts, the gag and myb sequences in the hybrid transcript were not in the same reading frame. It is presumed that the gag sequence provides a cryptic translation initiation site for the novel amino-truncated c-myb protein. The second mode of disruption was by downstream virus insertion at the 3' side of the c-myb, which results in the synthesis of a small (approximately 2 kilobase) myb transcript. The 5' long terminal repeat of the inserted provirus provides a TGA termination codon that results in the elimination of 240 normal c-myb amino acid residues from the carboxyl terminus of the tumor-specific myb protein. These results suggest that truncated myb proteins play a role in neoplastic transformation of myeloid cells.

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