Mutated C-Ha-ras Oncogene Alters Cytokeratin Expression in the Human Breast Epithelial Cell Line MCF-10A

Overview

Journal Am J Pathol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Pathology

Date 1992 Jun 1

PMID 1376561

Citations 2

Authors

T M Paine

G Fontanini

F Basolo

I Geronimo

J W Elliott

J Russo

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Abstract

MCF-10A, a spontaneously immortalized human breast epithelial cell line, has been transformed by transfection with the mutated c-Ha-ras oncogene obtained from T24 carcinoma cells. The pattern of cytokeratin expression was studied in MCF-10A cells in comparison with plasmid transfected or MCF-10Aneo cells, normal ras proto oncogene transfected or MCF-10AneoN cells, and transformed or MCF-10AneoT cells. Cytokeratin expression was studied by western immunoblot of total cellular proteins separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Blots with cytokeratin specific AE1 and AE3 antibodies showed identical molecular weight species of cytokeratins in MCF-10A, MCF-10Aneo, MCF-10AneoN, and MCF-10AneoT cells; however, in MCF-10AneoT cells, the intensity of immunostaining and the number of immunoreactive phosphorylated polypeptides keratins 7, 8, 15, and 16 was decreased. It was concluded that c-Ha-ras oncogene-induced transformation alters quantitatively the cytokeratin pattern of human breast epithelial cells and that these changes could explain some of the morphologic alterations observed in c-Ha-ras transformed cells.

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