Oncogene
ras (a signal transduction molecule),
myc (a transcription factor), src (a protein tyrosine kinase),
HER-2/neu, also called erbB-2 (a growth factor receptor),
hTERT (an enzyme involved in DNA replication), and
Bcl-2 (a membrane associated protein that prevents apoptosis).
2. The name of the biomedical journal. Oncogene is a journal for researchers interested in the molecular biology of malignant change including molecular biologists, cell biologists, oncologists, geneticists and biotechnologists.
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