Spontaneous Conversion of Nontransformed Avian Sarcoma Virus-Infected Rat Cells to the Transformed Phenotype
AUTOR(ES)
Turek, Lubomir P.
RESUMO
Normal rat kidney (NRK) fibroblasts were infected with the Schmidt-Ruppin strain (SR-D) of avian sarcoma virus (ASV) and cloned 20 h after infection without selection for the transformed phenotype. Most infected clones initially exhibited the flat, nontransformed morphology that is characteristic of uninfected NRK cells. In long-term culture, however, the majority of the SR-D NRK clones began segregating typical ASV-transformed cells. Transforming ASV could be rescued by fusion with chicken embryo fibroblasts from most of the infected clones tested. Three predominantly flat, independently infected clones were further analyzed by subcloning 8 to 10 weeks after infection. Most flat progeny subclones derived at random from two of these “parental” SR-D NRK clonal lines did not yield virus upon fusion with chicken embryo fibroblasts, although a nondefective transforming ASV was repeatedly recovered from the parental clones. This observation suggested that most, but not all, daughter cells in these SR-D NRK clones lost the ASV provirus after cloning. The progeny of the third independent parental cell clone, c17, gave rise to both flat and transformed subclones that carried ASV. In this case, ASV recovery by fusion and transfection from the progeny subclones was equally efficient regardless of the transformation phenotype of the cells. The 60,000-dalton phosphoprotein product of the ASV src gene was, however, expressed at high level only in the transformed variants. The results of a Luria-Delbruck fluctuation analysis and of Newcombe's respreading test indicated that the event leading to the spontaneous conversion to the transformed state occurred at random in dividing cultures of these flat ASV NRK cells at a rate predicted for somatic mutation.
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