title: Lipid characteristics of RSV-transformed Balb/c 3T3 cell lines with different spontaneous metastatic potentials.
abstract: To determine whether a metastatic phenotype may be correlated with a characteristic lipid pattern, we compared the lipid composition of low metastasizing Balb/c 3T3 cells transformed by the B77 strain of Rous sarcoma virus (B77-3T3 cells) with that of a subclone isolated by growth in 0.6% agar, the B77-AA6 cells, which exhibit a high capacity for spontaneous metastasis. B77-3T3 cells revealed characteristics in their lipid composition common to other systems of transformed cells, i.e., an accumulation of ether-linked lipids, a reduction of the more complex gangliosides, an increase of oleic acid (18:1) and a decrease of arachidonic (20:4) and C22 polyunsaturated fatty acids in phospholipids. High metastatic B77-AA6 cells showed: a) an even more marked decrease of complex gangliosides; b) a more pronounced increase of 18:1 and decrease of 20:4 and 22 polyunsaturated fatty acids in certain phospholipid classes; and c) a higher percentage of alkyl-acyl subfractions in both phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine than B77-3T3 cells. Comparing the data for other systems of metastatic cells with those of lipid studies of spontaneously metastasizing B77-AA6 cell system leads us to conclude that the metastatic phenotype is characterized by a change in ether-linked lipids, rather than in fatty acids.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Patologia Generale, Universitá di Firenze, Italia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Calorini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fallani
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tombaccini
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barletta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mugnai
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Di Renzo
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Comoglio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruggieri
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D001358:Avian Sarcoma Viruses; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000378:metabolism; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism*; D005732:Gangliosides / Q000378:metabolism; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D019301:Oleic Acid; D009829:Oleic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D010641:Phenotype; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000378:metabolism; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; D005732:Gangliosides; D009829:Oleic Acids; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D010743:Phospholipids; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D019301:Oleic Acid