PROTO-ONCOGENES

Domain	Definition
Health	Normal cellular genes homologous to viral oncogenes. The products of proto-oncogenes are important regulators of biological processes and appear to be involved in the events that serve to maintain the ordered procession through the cell cycle. Proto-oncogenes have names of the form c-onc. (references)
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Commercial Usage: PROTO-ONCOGENES

Domain	Title
Books	Proto-Oncogenes in Cell Development - Symposium No. 150 (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: PROTO-ONCOGENES

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shown is an electron micrograph of an oncogene in a cancer cell. Oncogenes have counterparts in normal cells called proto-oncogenes that control normal cell growth. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
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Non-Fiction Usage: PROTO-ONCOGENES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Proto-oncogenes are a family of normal genes that code mainly for proteins involved in a cell's normal growth-control pathway. (references)
		Since they are mutant forms of proto-oncogenes, oncogenes resemble proto-oncogenes in that they code for the production of proteins involved in growth control. (references)
		Mutations in DNA repair genes can lead to a failure in DNA repair, which in turn allows subsequent mutations in tumor suppressor genes and proto-oncogenes to accumulate. (references)
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Usage Frequency: PROTO-ONCOGENES

"PROTO-ONCOGENES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PROTO-ONCOGENES" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: PROTO-ONCOGENES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-n-n-o-o-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	-5 letters: congeners, consenter, copestone, copresent, cornpones, cretonnes, gonopores, octoroons, oncogenes, roentgens, rotenones, stonecrop.
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