ISSN:
1432-1211
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract “S” (survivor) mutants were produced in mice for genetic analysis of host resistance to metastatic cancer. S-mutants S-27 and S-31 resist transplantation of lymphoma EL4 of parental C57BL/6J (B6) mice while they accept parental skin grafts. Mutant S-27 also resists formation of spontaneous metastases from intradermally growing EL4 tumor into lymp nodes; mutant S-31 is highly susceptible to EL4 metastases. Another mutant. H-2 bm26 (bm26), resists EL4 and rejects B6 skin grafts. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II gene expression was compared in these mutants and normal B6 mice. All three mutants tested, S-27, S-31, and bm26, expressed a low amount of K b mRNA in organspecific fashion. Mutant bm26 and S-31 expressed a low amount of Ab b mRNA and of Ab antigen on their spleen cells. Some oligonucleotide probes designed to hybridize to the second exon of the clss II MHC gene Ab b did not hybridize with DNA from all three mutants. These findings suggest extensive sequence alternations in the Ab b gene in mutants S-27, S-31, and bm26; they also suggest a major role of MHC in the control of host resistance to spontaneous metastases of the EL4 tumor.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00215050
