Abstract
The myc oncogene was originally identified as a transduced allele (v-myc) in the genome of a highly oncogenic avian retrovirus. The protein product (Myc) of the cellular c-myc proto-oncogene represents the key component of a transcription factor network controlling the expression of a large fraction of all human genes. Myc regulates fundamental cellular processes like growth, metabolism, proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Mutational deregulation of c-myc leading to increased levels of the Myc protein is a frequent event in the etiology of human cancers. In this chapter, we describe cell systems and experimental strategies to monitor and quantify the oncogenic potential of myc alleles and to isolate and characterize transcriptional targets of Myc that are relevant for the cell transformation process. We also describe experimental procedures to study the evolutionary origin of myc and to analyze structure and function of the ancestral myc proto-oncogenes.
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This work was supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant P23652 to K.B.
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Hartl, M., Bister, K. (2013). Analyzing Myc in Cell Transformation and Evolution. In: Soucek, L., Sodir, N. (eds) The Myc Gene. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1012. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-429-6_3
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