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  • Title: Neoplastic progression by EJ/ras at different steps of transformation in vitro of human uroepithelial cells.
    Author: Pratt CI, Kao CH, Wu SQ, Gilchrist KW, Oyasu R, Reznikoff CA.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1992 Feb 01; 52(3):688-95. PubMed ID: 1310069.
    Abstract:
    The biological effects of expression of mutant ras at different stages of human uroepithelial cell (HUC) tumorigenesis were tested after transfection of EJ/ras into nonestablished HUC and three isogeneic cell lines representing different steps in HUC transformation in vitro. Transfection with EJ/ras failed to immortalize diploid HUC and also failed to cause tumorigenic conversion of a near-diploid SV40-immortalized HUC line (SV-HUC) except at one of six nude mouse inoculation sites. In contrast, EJ/ras-transfected aneuploid low-grade squamous cell carcinoma cells formed undifferentiated, invasive carcinomas at four of six inoculation sites. Furthermore, EJ/ras accelerated tumor growth in MC-ppT11-HA2, an aneuploid high-grade transitional cell carcinoma line, as determined by decreased tumor latent periods and doubling times. These results suggest that EJ/ras contributes to progression, possibly by accelerating tumor growth, but does not in itself cause tumorigenic transformation of uroepithelial cells. To test whether chromosome losses accompanied EJ/ras transformation of SV-HUC, the karyotype of the one SV-HUC tumorigenic transformant obtained (above) was examined. This tumor cell line showed losses of chromosome arms 3p, 10p, 11p, and 18, all of which have been hypothesized to contain genes that suppress cancer development. Therefore, these results also provide new evidence suggesting that genetic losses may be required for mutant ras to contribute to HUC tumorigenic progression.
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