TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adam, Dieter
A1  - Dimitrijevic, Nicola
A1  - Schartl, Manfred
T1  - Tumor suppression in Xiphophorus by an accidentally acquired promoter
N2  - Melanoma formation in the teleost Xiphophorus is caused by a dominant genetic locus, Tu. This locus includes the Xmrk oncogene, which encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase. Tumor induction is. suppressed in wild-type fish by a tumor suppressor locus, R. Molecular genetic analyses revealed that the Tu locus emerged by nonhomologaus recombination of the Xmrk proto-oncogene with a previously uncharacterized sequence, D. This event generated an additional copy of Xmrk with a new promoter. Suppression of the new Xmrk promoter by R in parental fish and its deregulation in hybrids explain the genetics of melanoma formation in Xiphophorus.
KW  - Physiologische Chemie
Y1  - 1993
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-61630
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adam, Dieter
A1  - Maueler, Winfried
A1  - Schartl, Manfred
T1  - Transcriptional activation of the melanoma inducing Xmrk oncogene in Xiphophorus
N2  - The melanoma inducing locus of Xiphophorus encodes a tumorigenic version of a novel putative receptor tyrosine kinase (Xmrk). To elucidate the mechanism of oncogenic activation of Xmrk, we compared the structure and expression of two oncogenic loci with the corresponding proto-oncogene. Only minor structural alterations were found to be specific for the oncogenic Xmrk genes. Marked overexpression of the oncogene transcripts in melanoma, which are approximately 1 kb shorter than the proto-oncogene transcript, correlates with the malignancy of the tumors. The tumor transcripts are derived from an alternative transcription start site that is used only in the oncogenic loci. Thus, oncogenic activation of the melanoma inducing Xmrk gene appears primarily to be due to novel transcriptional control and overexpression.
KW  - Schwertkärpfling
KW  - Onkogen
KW  - Melanom
Y1  - 1991
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-87584
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schartl, Manfred
A1  - Adam, Dieter
T1  - Molecular cloning, structural characterization, and analysis of transcription of the melanoma oncogene of xiphophorus
N2  - No abstract available
KW  - Physiologische Chemie
Y1  - 1992
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-61989
ER  -