Barrett J F, Lewis B C, Hoang A T, Alvarez R J, Dang C V
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
J Biol Chem. 1995 Jul 7;270(27):15923-5. doi: 10.1074/jbc.270.27.15923.
Adhesion-independent growth is a neoplastic phenotype that is inducible in Rat 1a fibroblasts by enforced MYC expression. The c-Myc protein has been well characterized as a transcription factor, yet the molecular basis of c-Myc-induced neoplastic transformation has remained elusive. In this report, we demonstrate a link between ectopic MYC expression, deregulated cyclin A levels, and adhesion-independent growth.