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Science 11 April 1986:
Vol. 232. no. 4747, pp. 223 - 227
DOI: 10.1126/science.3456644
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Science, Vol 232, Issue 4747, 223-227
Copyright © 1986 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Primary rat embryo cells transformed by one or two oncogenes show different metastatic potentials

R Pozzatti, R Muschel, J Williams, R Padmanabhan, B Howard, L Liotta, and G Khoury

Second-passage rat embryo cells were transfected with a neomycin resistance gene and the activated form of the c-Ha-ras I gene, or with these two genes plus the adenovirus type 2 E1a gene. Foci of morphologically transformed cells were observed in both cases; however, the frequency of transformation was at least ten times higher with two oncogenes than with the ras gene alone. All the transformed cell lines gave rise to rapidly growing tumors when injected subcutaneously into nude mice. All but one of the cell lines transformed by the ras oncogene alone formed metastatic nodules in the lungs of animals that had been injected subcutaneously with transformed cells. When transformed cells were injected intravenously, all the ras single-gene transformants gave rise to many metastatic lung nodules. In contrast, cell lines transformed with ras and E1a did not generate metastases after subcutaneous injection and gave rise to very few metastatic lung nodules after intravenous injection. These data demonstrate that a fully malignant cell with metastatic potential, as measured in an immunodeficient animal, can be obtained from early passage embryo cells by the transfection of the ras oncogene alone.


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