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  • Title: Macrophage-mediated induction of drug-resistant variants in a mouse mammary tumor cell line.
    Author: Yamashina K, Miller BE, Heppner GH.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1986 May; 46(5):2396-401. PubMed ID: 3084067.
    Abstract:
    The ability of macrophages to induce drug-resistant variants was studied in an in vitro macrophage-tumor cell coculture system utilizing the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase locus as measured by resistance to 6-thioguanine. Tumor cells of mouse mammary tumor line 66 were sensitive to macrophage induction of thioguanine resistance as shown by an increase in the frequency of thioguanine-resistant variants which arose following macrophage coculture to levels at least 5- to 10-fold above the spontaneous frequency. Detection of increased numbers of variants depended upon the macrophage:tumor cell ratio, with 50:1 or greater being necessary. The activity of the macrophages was dependent upon their activation stage. The induction of drug-resistant variants could be inhibited by oxygen radical scavengers. The basis for the emergence of thioguanine-resistant cells appeared to be induction of new variants rather than selection of preexisting resistant cells from the parental population, since thioguanine-sensitive and -resistant cells were equally sensitive to macrophage-mediated toxicity. In six of the six macrophage-induced variants tested, resistance was associated with loss of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase activity. The reverse variation frequency at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase locus in five macrophage-induced variants was low and similar to that of a stable ethyl methanesulfonate-induced, thioguanine-resistant line. Macrophages isolated directly from growing mammary tumors, as well as activated peritoneal macrophages, were capable of inducing thioguanine resistance in line 66 cells.
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