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Two G protein oncogenes in human endocrine tumors.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 10 Aug 1990
Lyons J, Landis C A, Harsh G, Vallar L, Grünewald K, Feichtinger H, Duh Q Y, Clark O H, Kawasaki E, Bourne H R
Abstract excerpt
Somatic mutations in a subset of growth hormone (GH)-secreting pituitary tumors convert the gene for the alpha polypeptide chain (alpha s) of Gs into a putative oncogene, termed gsp. These mutations, which activate alpha s by inhibiting its guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) activity, are found in codons for either of two amino acids, each of which is completely conserved in all known G protein alpha chains. The...
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