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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 24, Issue 16 3216-3221, Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press

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Multiple phenotypes associated with Myc-induced transformation of chick embryo fibroblasts can be dissociated by a basic region mutation

DH Crouch, R Gallagher, CR Goding, JC Neil and R Fulton
Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, CRC Beatson Laboratories, Bearsden, Glasgow.

Chimaeric alleles were constructed to assay the biological functions of an N-terminal deletion and C-terminal mutations which were found in a naturally occurring mutant of feline vMyc, T17. The mutant alleles were assayed for their ability to transform chick embryo fibroblasts in vitro by a number of criteria, namely the ability to induce morphological transformation, an accelerated growth rate and growth in soft agar. Feline cMyc could transform the avian cells, whilst T17 vMyc could not, and the N-terminal deletion was responsible for conferring the primary transformation defect on the mutant protein. The C-terminal mutations which consist of a point mutation adjacent to the nuclear localisation signal and a point mutation/amino acid insertion within the basic region (BR) could, however, dissociate the Myc-induced parameters of transformation. This effect was a specific function of the BR mutation alone, and the mutation could be transferred into avian cMyc with comparable biological consequences. The BR mutation did not disrupt the sequence specific DNA binding activity of the protein in vivo, despite exerting a biological effect. These data suggest a novel phenotype where the mutation may affect a subset of Myc-regulated genes through altered DNA binding specificity or protein-protein interactions.
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