Unstable transformation of mouse 3T3 cells by transfection with DNA from normal human lymphocytes.
AUTOR(ES)
Schäfer, R
RESUMO
DNA fragments (0.5-4.5 kb) of normal human lymphocytes induced pre-neoplastic mouse NIH/3T3 cells after transfection to grow in soft agar medium at low efficiency (0.0007 colonies/micrograms DNA/10(6) cells). In secondary transfections high mol. wt. DNA (greater than 20 kb) of cells transformed by DNA fragments induced neoplastic transformation with high efficiency (0.16-1.1 soft agar colonies/micrograms DNA/10(6) cells). These results confirm previous data obtained by others with chicken and mouse donor DNA. We describe here that independent secondary transformants harbored human Alu repetitive DNA sequences on similar restriction fragments and formed progressively growing tumors in BALB/c mice or nude mice. The corresponding primary transformants were not tumorigenic, however, and the ability to proliferate in semi-solid agar medium was gradually lost when the cells were grown as non-confluent monolayers. Furthermore, in contrast to secondary transformants, DNA from primary transformants showed only relatively weak hybridization to a human Alu repetitive DNA probe. We conclude that in primary transformants the transformed phenotype is expressed in an unstable fashion whereas secondary transformants appear to be stably transformed.
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