title: The effect of extracellular matrix interactions on morphologic transformation in vitro.
abstract: There is emerging evidence that the structure and function of a cell is dependent in part on the contacts that cells make with the extracellular matrix. We report here the effect of extracellular matrices secreted from both normal and tumor cells have on the structure of normal rat kidney epithelial cells. Normal rat kidney cells plated on the basement membrane secreted by tumor cells adopt a morphology and phenotype which closely resembles a Kirsten-ras transformed normal rat kidney cell. This morphologic transformation was not observed for cells plated on individual extracellular matrix components or on basement membrane secreted by normal placenta cells. This suggests that tumor derived basement membrane has unique characteristics which may cause morphologic transformation of normal rat kidney cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Pienta
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Getzenberg
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Coffey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D002465:Cell Movement; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D004848:Epithelium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000502:physiology*; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011905:Genes, ras; D007668:Kidney; D007708:Kirsten murine sarcoma virus / Q000235:genetics*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins