Direct growth stimulation of normal human epithelial cells by mutant p53
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Carcinogenesis
- Vol. 7 (2), 83-88
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mc.2940070205
Abstract
We developed a high-titer amphotropic retroviral vector that expresses mutant (Ala 143) human p53 to test directly the response of genetically normal human epithelial cells to p53 mutation. Contrary to our prediction, we found that in pancreatic epithelium (whose tumors display a high frequency of p53 mutation) but not in thyroid (whose tumors show an exceptionally low mutation frequency), expression of mutant p53 induced a dramatic, though self-limiting, proliferative response. This result questions the assumption that p53 mutation is relevant only to the later stages of tumorigenesis.Keywords
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