PMID- 7807177 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19950130 LR - 20190909 IS - 0167-594X (Print) IS - 0167-594X (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 3 DP - 1994 TI - Negative effects of wild-type p53 and s-Myc on cellular growth and tumorigenicity of glioma cells. Implication of the tumor suppressor genes for gene therapy. PG - 259-68 AB - Human (U251, U87, U343) and rat glioma cell lines (C6, 9L) were examined by the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and subsequent nucleotide sequencing analysis to see whether they express wild type (wt)-p53 or mutated form (mut)-p53 messages. Results showed that U87, U343, and C6 cells expressed wt-p53 messages whereas U251 and 9L cells expressed mut-p53 messages. All these cell lines were transfected with wt-p53 cDNA or the s-myc gene linked to the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter. Of several G418-resistant clones obtained from each transfection, a few expressed the s-Myc or wt-p53 proteins. Independent of mutations in the intrinsic p53 gene, the cellular growth in vitro and tumorigenicity in nude mice of these clones were drastically suppressed, the extent of suppression being correlated with the expression level of the transfected gene. Flow-cytometric analysis demonstrated that both p53 and s-Myc arrested the cell cycle at the G1/S boundary. These data suggest that these genes having negative effects on tumor cell proliferation could be used in gene therapy of gliomas, which are caused by alteration of the p53 gene or by some other genetic change. FAU - Asai, A AU - Asai A AD - Biophysics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. FAU - Miyagi, Y AU - Miyagi Y FAU - Sugiyama, A AU - Sugiyama A FAU - Gamanuma, M AU - Gamanuma M FAU - Hong, S H AU - Hong SH FAU - Takamoto, S AU - Takamoto S FAU - Nomura, K AU - Nomura K FAU - Matsutani, M AU - Matsutani M FAU - Takakura, K AU - Takakura K FAU - Kuchino, Y AU - Kuchino Y LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Neurooncol JT - Journal of neuro-oncology JID - 8309335 RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (RNA, Neoplasm) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) SB - IM GS - p53 GS - s-Myc MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Brain Neoplasms/*genetics/metabolism/therapy MH - Cell Cycle/genetics MH - Gene Amplification MH - Gene Expression MH - Genes, myc/*genetics/physiology MH - Genes, p53/*genetics/physiology MH - Glioma/*genetics/metabolism/therapy MH - Humans MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phenotype MH - Point Mutation/*genetics MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/genetics MH - RNA, Neoplasm/genetics MH - Rats MH - Transfection MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism EDAT- 1994/01/01 00:00 MHDA- 1994/01/01 00:01 CRDT- 1994/01/01 00:00 PHST- 1994/01/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1994/01/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1994/01/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/BF01053280 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Neurooncol. 1994;19(3):259-68. doi: 10.1007/BF01053280.