Malignant Activation of a K- ras Oncogene in Lung Carcinoma But Not in Normal Tissue of the Same Patient
- 17 February 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 223 (4637), 661-664
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6695174
Abstract
A single genetic alteration, a guanine-to-cytosine transversion, is responsible for the acquisition of malignant properties by K-ras genes of two human tumor cell lines established from carcinomas of the bladder (A1698) and lung (A2182). As a consequence, arginine instead of the normal glycine is incorporated into the K-ras-coded p21 proteins at amino acid position 12. This mutation creates a restriction enzyme polymorphism that can be used to screen human cells for transforming K-ras genes. This approach was used to identify the mutational event responsible for the malignant activation of a K-ras oncogene in a squamous cell lung carcinoma of a 66-year-old man; this point mutation was not present in either the normal bronchial or parenchymal tissue or in the blood lymphocytes. Hence, malignant activation of a ras oncogene appears to be specifically associated with the development of a human neoplasm.Keywords
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