Tumorigenicity associated ithe chromosome 11P15 alterations in SV40-transformed human kidney cells.

V Poirier, SJ Tyler, Judith Elizabeth Sleeman, F Diffin, NJ Maitland, KW Brown

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Abstract

Chromosome 11p15 has been suggested to be a potential site for a second Wilms' tumour gene (a childhood nephroblastoma). Human foetal kidney cells and normal kidney cells from Wilms' tumour patients were transformed with SV40 derivative vectors. As some of the cell lines progressed to tumorigenicity, we observed that chromosome 11p13, site of the WT1 suppressor gene, did not show any allelic loss. However, RFLP analysis showed that chromosome 11p15 was affected by allelic losses on different genes in some cell lines but not necessarily prior to the appearance of tumorigenicity. We also observed that the most aggressive cell Line (SVCU/NK), derived from the normal kidney cells of a Wilms' tumour patient, showed increased expression of c-Ha-ras proto-oncogene at later passage and in the tumour tissue extracted from nude mice. Finally we report a lack of tumour suppression activity of one cell line SVT1B6/NK, when fused with the tumorigenic G401 cell line (the latter has been used in tumour suppression experiments as a Wilms' tumour cell line before being identified as a Rhabdoid tumour cell line). These experiments are consistent with the existence of a suppressor gene at chromosome 11p15.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)623-630
Number of pages8
JournalInternational Journal of Oncology
Volume7
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Sept 1995

Keywords

  • 11P15 LOCUS
  • HUMAN KIDNEY CELLS
  • SV40
  • WILMS TUMOR GENE
  • GROWTH FACTOR-II
  • WILMS-TUMOR
  • EPITHELIAL-CELLS
  • INSULIN GENE
  • HETEROZYGOSITY
  • REGION
  • LINE
  • EXPRESSION
  • DNA
  • WT1

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