PMID- 8263009 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19940127 LR - 20190904 IS - 0171-5216 (Print) IS - 0171-5216 (Linking) VI - 120 IP - 3 DP - 1994 TI - Gene analysis of K-, H-ras, p53, and retinoblastoma susceptibility genes in human lung cancer cell lines by the polymerase chain reaction/single-strand conformation polymorphism method. PG - 143-8 AB - In order to know the involvement of multiple gene alterations in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer, we examined the genes of K-, H-ras (codons 12, 13, 61), p53(exons 5-9) and the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene (RB)(exons 20-22) using the polymerase chain reaction/single-strand conformation polymorphism method in 32 human lung cancer cell lines (5 squamous-cell carcinomas, 10 adenocarcinomas, 3 large-cell carcinomas, 14 small-cell carcinomas). In 18 non-small-cell lung cancer lines, gene alterations were found in 4 for K-ras (22%), none for H-ras (0%), 4 for p53 (22%) and none for the RB (0%) gene. In 14 small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) lines, no gene alterations were found in K-ras (0%), or H-ras (0%), but 6 were found for p53 (43%) and 3 for the RB (21%) gene. Coincident abnormalities of K-ras and p53, or K-ras and RB genes were not found in any cell lines, and those of the p53 and RB genes were found in only 2 SCLC lines. No association was observed between these three gene alterations and N-myc amplification. Although the above three genes may be involved to some extent in the pathogenesis of lung cancer, more factors are required for its development. FAU - Kashii, T AU - Kashii T AD - First Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. FAU - Mizushima, Y AU - Mizushima Y FAU - Monno, S AU - Monno S FAU - Nakagawa, K AU - Nakagawa K FAU - Kobayashi, M AU - Kobayashi M LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Germany TA - J Cancer Res Clin Oncol JT - Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology JID - 7902060 SB - IM GS - H-ras GS - K-ras GS - N-myc GS - p53 MH - Aged MH - Base Sequence MH - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*genetics MH - Carcinoma, Small Cell/*genetics MH - Female MH - Genes, Retinoblastoma/*genetics MH - Genes, myc/genetics MH - Genes, p53/*genetics MH - Genes, ras/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Lung Neoplasms/*genetics MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Point Mutation/*genetics MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured 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/BF01202192 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 1994;120(3):143-8. doi: 10.1007/BF01202192.