Transformation and immortalization of human keratinocytes by SV40.
Transformation and immortalization of human keratinocytes by SV40.
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SV40 对人角质形成细胞的转化和永生化。
DOI:
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12540905
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发表时间:
1983
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通讯作者:
Defendi,V
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作者:
Steinberg,ML;Defendi,V
We have studied the appearance of transformed properties following infection of human epidermal keratinocytes by the oncogenic virus SV40. Shortly after infection, only a small fraction of the cells are positive for SV40. Shortly after infections, only a small fraction of the cells are positive for SV40 T antigen by immunofluorescence; this fraction progressively increase in plating/ colony-forming efficiency and growth rate. The capacity of the cells to differentiate progressively decreases, as indicated by cytochemical staining and cornfied cell-envelope formation induced by suspension in methyl cellulose. The infected cells enter a period of growth crisis characterized by cytopathology and cell death as the level of T antigen synthesis reaches about 90 precent positive cells at about the tenth serial passage. Viable cells emerging from the crisis period are found to exhibit anchorage-independent growth, as indicated by the formation of viable colonies in semisolid media, but there is considered variability in colony formation among clones isolated from anchorage-independent populations. The emergent population also manifests phenotypic instability in terms of the appearance of variants, which in contrast to uninfected cells, expresses a well-defined actins cytoskeleton. The infected cells eventually become “immortalized,” as evidenced by an indefinite lifespan, i.e., replication capability maintained well beyond the ordinary time of senescence for uninfected cells, We present these findings in the context of astage-specificmodel of epithelial transformation in vitro.