proto-oncogene

(genetics) A gene, that promotes the specialization and division of normal cells, that becomes an oncogene following mutation.

Japanese Meaning

正常な細胞の分化や増殖を促進し、変異によって発癌遺伝子となる可能性のある遺伝子。

Researchers identified a mutation in a proto-oncogene that led to uncontrolled cell proliferation in the tumor sample.

研究者たちは、正常細胞の分化と増殖を促進し、変異によってがん遺伝子になる遺伝子に変異が見つかり、それが腫瘍サンプルで制御不能な細胞増殖を引き起こした。

Sense（1）

(genetics) A gene, that promotes the specialization and division of normal cells, that becomes an oncogene following mutation.

Typically, proto-oncogenes are normal cellular genes that, when activated by mutation or overexpression, promote cancer.

proto-oncogenes

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