期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1978
卷号:75
期号:5
页码:2311-2314
DOI:10.1073/pnas.75.5.2311
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:The tumor-promoting agent 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) caused a 2- to 3-fold enhancement of transformation of secondary rat embryo cells that had been injected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of adenovirus type 5(H5ts 125). In addition, transformed foci appeared earlier and were larger in cultures grown in the presence of TPA. The addition of TPA could be delayed until up to 7 days after viral injection and still enhancement was observed. Exposure of the cells to 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]pyrene prior to H5ts125 infection also resulted in a 2- to 4-fold enhancement of transformation, and this enhancement was further augmented 2- to 3-fold when cells were grown in TPA after virus infection. Whereas TPA did not enhance the cloning efficiency of normal rat embryo cells, it did enhance the cloning efficiency of isolated colonies of adenovirus-transformed cells when these were grown alone or cocultured with a 100-fold excess of normal rat embryo cells. The enhancement of adenovirus transformation by TPA appears to be due to its ability to facilitate expression of the transformed state rather than an effect on virus uptake or integration.