Proto oncogenes are normal genes which carry the potential to be cancer forming ones and can be triggered through mutagenic processes, cell growth regulation failure or an abnormal translocation of a chromosome.
Oncogenes activate cells to grow and replicate when in normal circumstances cells would under go apoptosis.
Oncoproteins are then produced from the oncogenic gene expression as result of mutation of a normal gene into an onco gene, one which may have the potential to cause cancer.





