title: Independently arising macrophage mutants dissociate growth factor-regulated survival and proliferation.
abstract: Analysis of a simian virus 40-immortalized colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) -dependent macrophage cell line (BAC1.2F5) and independently arising autonomous mutants derived from it (aut4A, aut4A.1, aut2A, and aut2A.1) revealed distinct phenotypes. The parental line, BAC1.2F5, is dependent on CSF-1 for survival and growth. Of the mutants derived from BAC1.2F5, aut4A has lost the requirement of CSF-1 for survival; aut4A.1 (derived from aut4A) and aut2A grow in the absence of growth factor but proliferate more rapidly in its presence, and aut2A.1 (derived from aut2A) produces CSF-1 and proliferates as rapidly in the presence as in the absence of exogeneous CSF-1. The separation of the CSF-1 requirement for survival and proliferation observed in aut4A is also observed in a temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant tsgro1. At the nonpermissive temperature, tsgro1 cell proliferation is arrested, but the cells survive provided CSF-1 is present. The four cellular phenotypes observed--immortalization, loss of growth factor requirement for survival, loss of growth factor requirement for proliferation, and loss of growth factor-stimulated proliferation--indicate a divergence of the pathways of growth factor-regulated survival and proliferation and may represent phenotypes occurring at intermediate stages in tumor-cell progression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Pollard
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dello Sbarba
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cheers
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D007700:Kinetics; D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D051379:Mice; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: D016173:Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor