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Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 [F. C., N. K., D. S. S.], and International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, 80125 Naples, Italy [R. D., M. G. P.]
cripto is a gene encoding an epidermal growth factor-related protein that is expressed in undifferentiated embryonal carcinoma cells. To ascertain if cripto is capable of functioning as a transforming gene, a full-length human cripto complementary DNA under the transcriptional control of the Rous sarcoma virus long terminal repeat has been cotransfected with the selectable pSV2neo marker plasmid into immortalized mouse NOG-8 mammary epithelial cells. Several neomycin-resistant clones were isolated that express high levels of a specific cripto 4.5-kilobase mRNA transcript and possess multiple copies of cripto plasmid DNA. NOG-8 cells that express cripto are able to clone in soft agar and exhibit an approximately 3-fold increase in their anchorage-dependent growth in serum-free medium as compared to the neo-transfected NOG-8 cells. However, none of the cripto-expressing NOG-8 clones are able to form tumors in nude mice.
1 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bldg. 10, Room 5B39, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Received 8/27/90. Accepted 12/17/90.
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