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Correlation of Frequency of Induced Mutation and Metastatic Potential in Tumor Cell Lines from a Single Mouse Mammary Tumor¹

Department of Immunology, Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit, Michigan 48201

Spontaneous mutation rates were determined in mouse mammary tumor subpopulation lines that differ in metastatic phenotype. Although there was almost a 9-fold difference in spontaneous rates to ouabain resistance among the three lines tested, the difference did not correlate with ability to metastasize. Similarly a 10-fold difference in spontaneous rates to 6-thioguanine resistance did not correlate with metastatic ability. In contrast, the frequency of ethyl methanesulfonate-induced mutations was associated with metastatic potential. Thus, ethyl methanesulfonate only induced significant numbers of 6-thioguanine resistant colonies in 66 and 410.4 cells, the only 2 of 5 lines tested that spontaneously metastasize at high frequency, and of ouabain resistant colonies in 66, 410.4, and 168 cells, the only lines tested that produce experimental lung metastases after i.v. injection. Differential sensitivity to induced mutation was not correlated with differences in plating efficiency, wild type sensitivity to ethyl methanesulfonate, 6-thioguanine, or ouabain toxicity, ploidy, cell shape, cell size, or ability to engage in metabolic cooperation.

¹ Supported by NIH Grant 27419, Concern Foundation, The E. Walter Albachten bequest, and the United Foundation of Detroit.

² Research fellow from Laboratory of Pathology, Cancer Institute, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan.

³ To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

Received 8/16/84. Revised 4/26/85. Accepted 5/30/85.

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