Regulation of microfilament organization and anchorage-independent growth by tropomyosin 1.
AUTOR(ES)
Boyd, J
RESUMO
Variants of chemically immortalized Syrian hamster embryo cells that had either retained (supB+) or lost (supB-) the ability to suppress tumorigenicity when hybridized with a fibrosarcoma cell line were subcloned. Both supB cell types are nontumorigenic; however, the supB- but not supB+ cells exhibit conditional anchorage-independent growth. Alterations of actin microfilament organization were observed in supB- but not supB+ cells that corresponded to a significant reduction of the actin-binding protein tropomyosin 1 (TM-1) in subB- cells. To examine the possibility of a direct relationship between TM-1 expression and the subB- phenotype, subB+ cells were transfected with an expression vector containing the TM-1 cDNA in an antisense orientation. The antisense-induced reduction of TM-1 levels in supB+ clones caused a microfilament reorganization and conferred anchorage-independent growth potential that were indistinguishable from those characteristic of supB- cells. These data provide direct evidence that TM-1 regulates both microfilament organization and anchorage-independent growth and suggest that microfilament alterations are sufficient for anchorage-independent growth.
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