PMID- 21075313 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20101216 LR - 20230425 IS - 1878-3686 (Electronic) IS - 1535-6108 (Print) IS - 1535-6108 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 5 DP - 2010 Nov 16 TI - Phenotypic heterogeneity among tumorigenic melanoma cells from patients that is reversible and not hierarchically organized. PG - 510-23 LID - 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.10.012 [doi] AB - We investigated whether melanoma is hierarchically organized into phenotypically distinct subpopulations of tumorigenic and nontumorigenic cells or whether most melanoma cells retain tumorigenic capacity, irrespective of their phenotype. We found 28% of single melanoma cells obtained directly from patients formed tumors in NOD/SCID IL2Rgamma(null) mice. All stage II, III, and IV melanomas obtained directly from patients had common tumorigenic cells. All tumorigenic cells appeared to have unlimited tumorigenic capacity on serial transplantation. We were unable to find any large subpopulation of melanoma cells that lacked tumorigenic potential. None of 22 heterogeneously expressed markers, including CD271 and ABCB5, enriched tumorigenic cells. Some melanomas metastasized in mice, irrespective of whether they arose from CD271(-) or CD271(+) cells. Many markers appeared to be reversibly expressed by tumorigenic melanoma cells. CI - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Quintana, Elsa AU - Quintana E AD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute. FAU - Shackleton, Mark AU - Shackleton M FAU - Foster, Hannah R AU - Foster HR FAU - Fullen, Douglas R AU - Fullen DR FAU - Sabel, Michael S AU - Sabel MS FAU - Johnson, Timothy M AU - Johnson TM FAU - Morrison, Sean J AU - Morrison SJ LA - eng GR - HHMI/Howard Hughes Medical Institute/United States GR - P30 CA046592/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA46592/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Cancer Cell JT - Cancer cell JID - 101130617 RN - 0 (ABCB5 protein, human) RN - 0 (ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B) RN - 0 (ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1) RN - 0 (Biomarkers, Tumor) RN - 0 (Naphthalenes) RN - 1L4806J2QF (Adapalene) SB - IM MH - ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B MH - ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/metabolism MH - Adapalene MH - Animals MH - Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism MH - Cell Proliferation MH - Humans MH - Melanoma/metabolism/*pathology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred NOD MH - Mice, SCID MH - Naphthalenes/metabolism MH - Neoplasm Metastasis MH - *Phenotype MH - Transplantation, Heterologous/pathology PMC - PMC3031091 MID - NIHMS254638 OID - NLM: HHMIMS254638 EDAT- 2010/11/16 06:00 MHDA- 2010/12/17 06:00 PMCR- 2011/05/16 CRDT- 2010/11/16 06:00 PHST- 2010/06/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/09/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/10/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/11/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/11/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/12/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/05/16 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1535-6108(10)00416-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.10.012 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Cell. 2010 Nov 16;18(5):510-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.10.012.