Cytoplasmic suppression of malignancy |
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Authors: | Barbara A Israel Warren I Schaeffer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Microbiology, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Given Medical Building, 05405 Burlington, Vermont;(2) Present address: Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wisconsin, 53706 Madison, WI |
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Abstract: | Summary Using both normal and transformed rat liver epithelial cells to prepare cytoplasmic hybrids (cybrids) we have found evidence
to support the theory that the cytoplasm from a normal cell can suppress tumorigenicity. A unique aspect of this study is
that all of the cells utilized, both normal and malignantly transformed, were derived from an original cloned cell. We found
that fusing cytoplasts from normal cells to malignantly transformed whole cells resulted in cybrid clones which, when injected
into newborn rat pups, isogenic with those from which the cell culture was initiated, yielted tumors in 51% of the animals
injected compared to 92% of the animals injected with the tumorigenic parent. Those animals that did develop tumors from the
cybrid cells survived longer than those injected with cells from the tumorigenic parent. Thus, the cybrid, formed of cytoplasm
from both parents, was less tumorigenic than the malignantly transformed parent cell. When reconstituted cells were prepared
by fusing cytoplasts from normal cells with karyoplasts from malignantly transformed cells, a situation in which essentially
all of the cytoplasm of the reconstituted cell is derived from normal cells, the tumorigenic phenotype was extinguished.
This work was supported in part by United States Public Health Service grant CA12056, and grant CA09100 from the National
Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. This work is partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for B.A.I. |
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Keywords: | malignancy cybrids reconstituted cells cytoplasmic suppression |
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