[Biologic effects of introduction of wild-type p53 cDNA into a human ovarian cancer cell line SKOV-3].
OBJECTIVE
To study the effects on biologic behavior in cells obtained from human ovarian cancer cell line SKOV-3 into which the wild-type p53 cDNA was introduced.


METHODS
Recombinant eukaryotic expression vector pC53-SN3 containing full-length human wild-type p53 cDNA and vector containing neomycin resistance gene only were introduced by lipofectamine-mediated gene transfection into SKOV-3 cell line which does not express endogenous p53. The clones obtained were observed for their biologic behavior.


RESULTS
(1) 2 clones named pC53 and 2 clones named pNeo were obtained after pC53-SN3 and vector transfection respectively; (2) The morphology of cells either from pC53 or from pNeo did not change significantly with respect to their parental SKOV-3; (3) The growth rate of cells from pC53 was much slower than that from SKOV-3, while the cell growth curve of pNeo was similar to that of SKOV-3; (4) The number of colones formed in the soft-agar by pC53 was significantly less than that by SKOV-3 or by pNeo; (5) The percentage of phase G1/G0 of pC53 was much higher than that of SKOV-3 and pNeo.


CONCLUSIONS
Wild-type p53 cDNA may be considered as one of the target genes for the gene therapy of ovarian cancer.
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First Teaching Hospital, Beijing Medical University.
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D002453:Cell Cycle; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005260:Female; D016158:Genes, p53 / Q000235:genetics*; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
D004273:DNA, Neoplasm