Transforming c-Ki-ras mutation is a preneoplastic event in mouse mammary carcinogenesis induced in vitro by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea.
Mouse mammary epithelial cells can be transformed in primary cultures to preneoplastic and neoplastic states when treated with N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU). Mammary carcinomas arising from MNU-induced hyperplastic alveolar nodules (a type of mouse mammary preneoplastic lesion) contained transforming c-Ki-ras genes when examined by the NIH 3T3 focus assay. Hybridization of allele-specific oligonucleotides to c-Ki-ras sequences amplified by the polymerase chain reaction demonstrated the presence of a specific G-35----A-35 point mutation in codon 12 in each of the NIH 3T3 foci as well as the mammary carcinomas. This mutation resulted in the substitution of the normal glycine with an aspartic acid. Furthermore, this mutation in the c-Ki-ras proto-oncogenes was also detected in 9 of 10 hyperplastic alveolar nodules. These results demonstrate that the specific c-Ki-ras mutation is a preneoplastic event in MNU-induced mouse mammary carcinogenesis.
Miyamoto
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Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
Sukumar
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Guzman
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Osborn
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Nandi
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D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D015342:DNA Probes; D005260:Female; D011905:Genes, ras; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008770:Methylnitrosourea; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011230:Precancerous Conditions / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D015183:Restriction Mapping
D015342:DNA Probes; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D008770:Methylnitrosourea