When a mutant c-H-rasoncogene with a valine for glycine substitution in codon 12 is transfected into cultured

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When a mutant c-H-rasoncogene with a valine for glycine substitution in codon 12 is transfected into cultured NIH 3T3 cells, it transforms those cells into cancer cells. When the same mutant oncogene is transfected into cultured embryonic cells, it does not transform them. Why?

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Principles of Genetics

ISBN: 978-1119142287

7th edition

Authors: D. Peter Snustad, Michael J. Simmons

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