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Human Sarcomatous Wilms' Tumor Lines: Evidence for Epithelial Differentiation in Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Kidney¹

Department of Pathology, National Children's Medical Research Center, 3-35-31, Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 154, Japan

The biological nature of human sarcomatous Wilms' tumor (SWT) was studied by analyzing newly established SWT lines, both heterotransplantable in nude mice and cultured in vitro. Five lines in nude mice include two from clear cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK), two from malignant rhabdoid tumor of the kidney (MRTK), and one from unclassified sarcoma. Five in vitro lines include three from CCSK, one from MRTK, and one from unclassified sarcoma. All of these in vitro cell lines produced tumors when innoculated in nude mice. Most of lines, especially of MRTK and unclassified sarcoma, well maintained their original morphological characteristics. However, CCSK lines, both heterotransplantable and in vitro, often showed unique morphological changes such as the increase of cells with eosinophilic cytoplasms and the production of mucin. Ultrastructurally, clusters of intermediate filaments, twisted sheaves of filaments resembling tonofilaments, intermediate junctions, and intracellular canaliculi were found in these cells. These findings suggested that CCSK had the latent epithelial nature which became obvious in the cell lines. This was confirmed by immunohistochemical and immunoblotting analyses with anticytokeratin antibodies. The result proved that CCSK expressed cytokeratin 8 (M_r 52,000) and 19 (M_r 40,000) as well as nephroblastic Wilms' tumor and strongly indicated that there was a close relationship between CCSK and nephroblastic Wilms' tumor.

¹ This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Cancer Research (62-16, 1-23) from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and from the Ministry of Education in Japan (63010056). This work was also supported by the Funds Provided by the Entrustment of Research Program of the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research in Japan.

² Awardee of Research Resident Fellowship from the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104, Japan.

³ To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

Received 8/25/88. Revised 4/17/89. Accepted 6/23/89.

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