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There is emerging evidence that several retroviral onc gene products possess functional, structural, and amino acid sequence homology. Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), Abelson-murine leukemia virus (Abelson-MuLV), and Snyder-Thei1en feline sarcoma virus (ST-FeSV) code for related phosphoproteins that have associated tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity (Barbacid et al., 1 980; Witte et al., 1980; Reddy et al., 1983). BALB-, Harvey-, and Kirsten-murine sarcoma viruses (MSVs) are members of another family whose 21,000 dalton transforming proteins possess GDP binding and autophosphorylation activity (Shih et al., 1979; Andersen et al., 1981). Investigation of the diversity of hematopoietic target cells susceptible to neoplastic transformation by specific retroviruses might be expected to provide insights into the relationship of the differentiated state of a cell and its susceptibility to the action of a family of onc genes. As an approach to this question, we took advantage of We availability of hematopoietic cell transformation assay systems to analyze the array of cellular targets whose growth and differentiation could be altered by different retroviral onc genes.
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Pierce, J.H., Aaronson, S.A. (1984). Interaction of Acute Transforming Retroviruses with Murine Hematopoietic Cells. In: Potter, M., Melchers, F., Weigert, M. (eds) Oncogenes in B-Cell Neoplasia. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69860-6_44
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