Human Proto-Oncogene c-jun Encodes a DNA Binding Protein with Structural and Functional Properties of Transcription Factor AP-1

D Bohmann, TJ Bos, A Admon, T Nishimura, PK Vogt… - Science, 1987 - science.org
Nuclear oncogene products have the potential to induce alterations in gene regulation
leading to the genesis of cancer. The biochemical mechanisms by which nuclear …

Oncogene jun encodes a sequence-specific trans- activator similar to AP-1

P Angel, EA Allegretto, ST Okino, K Hattori, WJ Boyle… - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
Proto-oncogenes encode proteins with three main sites of action: the cell-surface
membrane, the cytoplasm and the nucleus1, 2. Although the exact biochemical function of …

Leucine repeats and an adjacent DNA binding domain mediate the formation of functional cFos-cJun heterodimers

R Turner, R Tjian - Science, 1989 - science.org
The discovery that the AP-1 family of enhancer binding factors includes a complex of the
cellular Fos (cFos) and cellular Jun (cJun) proteins established a direct and important link …

jun-D: a third member of the jun gene family.

K Ryder, A Lanahan… - Proceedings of the …, 1989 - National Acad Sciences
The protooncogene c-jun encodes a component of the transcription factor AP-1. Both murine
c-jun and a related gene (jun-B) are rapidly activated in BALB/c3T3 cells by serum growth …

c-Jun dimerizes with itself and with c-Fos, forming complexes of different DNA binding affinities

TD Halazonetis, K Georgopoulos, ME Greenberg… - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
The c-jun and c-fos proto-oncogenes encode proteins that form a complex which regulates
transcription from promoters containing AP-1 activation elements. c&n has specific DNA …

Biochemical analysis of transcriptional activation by Jun: differential activity of c-and v-Jun

D Bohmann, R Tjian - Cell, 1989 - cell.com
The human proto-oncogene product, cJun, is a member of the AP-1 family of transcription
factors, which mediate the regulation of gene expression in response to extracellular …

Induction of proto-oncogene JUN/AP-1 by serum and TPA

WW Lamph, P Wamsley, P Sassone-Corsi, IM Verma - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
The response of a cell to mitogens and differentiation agents involves the transcriptional
induction of several cellular genes. Prominent among these so-called'immediate …

v-jun encodes a nuclear protein with enhancer binding properties of AP-1

TJ Bos, D Bohmann, H Tsuchie, R Tijan, PK Vogt - Cell, 1988 - Elsevier
The jun oncogene of ASV17 is expressed as a 65 kd protein (p65 gag-jun) that contains
partial gag sequences at its amino terminus fused to jun sequences that make up the …

Targeted degradation of c-Fos, but not v-Fos, by a phosphorylation-dependent signal on c-Jun

AG Papavassiliou, M Treier, C Chavrier, D Bohmann - Science, 1992 - science.org
The proto-oncogene products c-Fos and c-Jun heterodimerize through their leucine zippers
to form the AP-1 transcription factor. The transcriptional activity of the heterodimer is …

Induction of protooncogene c-jun by serum growth factors.

K Ryder, D Nathans - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1988 - National Acad Sciences
We have previously reported that one of the genes that is rapidly induced in mouse 3T3 cells
by serum growth factors (jun-B) encodes a protein related to the onco-protein v-jun. By using …