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Science 30 October 1987:
Vol. 238. no. 4827, pp. 692 - 694
DOI: 10.1126/science.3118464

Articles

Science, Vol 238, Issue 4827, 692-694
Copyright © 1987 by American Association for the Advancement of Science


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Dorsal, an embryonic polarity gene in Drosophila, is homologous to the vertebrate proto-oncogene, c-rel

R Steward

Department of Biology, Princeton University, NJ 08544.

The Drosophila gene, dorsal, is a maternal effect locus that is essential for the establishment of dorsal-ventral polarity in the developing embryo. The dorsal protein was predicted from the complementary DNA sequence; it is almost 50 percent identical, over an extensive region, to the protein encoded by the avian oncogene v-rel, its cellular homolog, c-rel, and a human c-rel fragment. The oncogene v-rel is highly oncogenic in avian lymphoid, spleen, and bone marrow cells.


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