A transforming activity not detected by DNA transfer to NIH 3T3 cells is detected by JB6 mouse epidermal cells.
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- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Vol. 5 (4), 890-893
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.5.4.890
Abstract
Transfection of four different mouse epidermal tumor cell DNAs into NIH 3T3 cells yielded neither morphologically altered foci nor anchorage independence. However, promotion-sensitive, but not promotion-insensitive, JB6 mouse epidermal cell lines were permissive for the expression of anchorage independence after transfection of DNA from three of these tumor cell lines. This transforming activity and the promotion-sensitive activity that confers sensitivity to promotion of transformation show differences in restriction enzyme sensitivity. In view of this difference and the differences in both recipient cells and 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate dependence of expression, it appears that the transforming activity and the promotion-sensitive activity are specified by different genes. The JB6 promotion-sensitive cell lines may be useful for detecting and cloning transforming genes that escape detection in the NIH 3T3 cell focus assay.Keywords
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