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Activating mutations of the c-kit proto-oncogene in a human mast cell leukemia cell line.
Leukemia - 1 Apr 1994
Kanakura Y, Furitsu T, Tsujimura T, Butterfield J H, Ashman L K, Ikeda H, Kitayama H, Kanayama Y, Matsuzawa Y, Kitamura Y
Abstract excerpt
The c-kit proto-oncogene encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase that is known to play a crucial role in mast cell growth and differentiation. In a human mast cell leukemia cell line (HMC-1), KitR was found to be constitutively phosphorylated on tyrosine, activated and associated with phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (P13K) in the absence of autocrine production of SCF. Sequencing of c-kit cDNA revealed that c-kit genes...
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