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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: David Rossell
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-24917 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20101201 6012
Model organisms such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster can help to elucidate the molecular basis of complex diseases such as cancer. Mutations in the Drosophila gene lethal (3) malignant brain tumor cause malignant growth in the larval brain. Here we show that l(3)mbt tumors exhibited a soma-to-germline transformation through the ectopic expression of genes normally required for germline stemness, fitness, or longevity. Orthologs of some of these genes were also expressed in human somatic ...[more]