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The dbl oncogene belongs to a unique class of human transforming genes. The dbl proto-oncogene is activated by substitution of the 5' portion of the gene with an unrelated human sequence. The proto-oncogene product is distributed between the soluble and membrane fractions of the cytoplasm and its function remains still unknown. In order to understand the biological role of dbl in human malignancies or during cell differentiation we have investigated the expression of the dbl oncogene in a wide number of human tumors of different embryological derivation. We found that dbl is preferentially expressed in a few neoplastic histiotypes of neuroectodermal origin. The transcript size of 5.3 Kb strongly suggests that the gene is not truncated in these tumors. These data, together with the information that the proto-oncogene has been found expressed in normal brain and adrenal medulla, indicate that dbl expression may be involved in cell differentiation of some tissues of neuroectodermic origin.
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