Publication Date:
1987-10-09
Description:
Oncogenes encoding serine/threonine or tyrosine kinases were introduced into the established rodent fibroblast cell line NIH 3T3 and tested for tumorigenic and metastatic behavior in T cell-deficient nude mice. Transforming oncogenes of the ras family were capable of converting fibroblast cell lines to fully metastatic tumors. Cell lines transformed by the kinase oncogenes mos, raf, src, fes, and fms formed experimental metastases and (in some cases) these genes were more efficient at metastatic conversion than a mutant ras gene. In contrast, cells transformed by either of two nuclear oncogenes, myc or p53, were tumorigenic when injected subcutaneously but were virtually nonmetastatic after intravenous injection. These data demonstrate that, in addition to ras, a structurally divergent group of kinase oncogenes can induce the metastatic phenotype.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Egan, S E -- Wright, J A -- Jarolim, L -- Yanagihara, K -- Bassin, R H -- Greenberg, A H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Oct 9;238(4824):202-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3659911" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
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Cells, Cultured
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*Genes
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Mice
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*Neoplasm Metastasis
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*Oncogenes
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Phenotype
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Protein Kinases/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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