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Synergistic interaction of p185c-neu and the EGF receptor leads to transformation of rodent fibroblasts.

The protein product of the rodent neu oncogene, p185neu, is a tyrosine kinase with structural similarity to the epidermal growth factor receptor ( EGFR). Transfection and subsequent overexpression of the human p185c-erbB-2 protein transforms NIH 3T3 cells in vitro. However, NIH 3T3 cells are not transformed by overexpressed rodent p185c-neu. NIH 3T3 transfectants overexpressing EGF receptors are not transformed unless incompletely transformed. Several groups have recently demonstrated EGF-induced, EGFR-mediated phosphorylation of p185c-neu. During efforts to characterize the interaction of p185c-neu with EGFR further, we created cell lines that simultaneously overexpress both p185c-neu and EGFR and observed that these cells become transformed. These observations demonstrate that two distinct, overexpressed tyrosine kinases can act synergistically to transform NIH 3T3 cells, thus identifying a novel mechanism that can lead to transformation.[1]

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  1. Synergistic interaction of p185c-neu and the EGF receptor leads to transformation of rodent fibroblasts. Kokai, Y., Myers, J.N., Wada, T., Brown, V.I., LeVea, C.M., Davis, J.G., Dobashi, K., Greene, M.I. Cell (1989) [Pubmed]
 
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