A New Site of Integration for Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Proviral DNA Common to BALB/cf(C3H) Mammary and Kidney Adenocarcinomas

Overview

Journal EMBO J

Specialties Biotechnology
Molecular Biology

Date 1986 Jan 1

PMID 3007110

Citations 33

Authors

M Garcia

R Wellinger

A Vessaz

H DIGGELMANN

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Abstract

The BALB/cf/Cd substrain of mice, developed by inbreeding and selection, shows a 70% incidence of spontaneous kidney adenocarcinomas. Initially foster-nursed on C3H mothers, these mice no longer produce mammary tumors, but there is evidence that mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is involved in the formation of these renal carcinomas. We identified a chromosomal region called int-41, representing a locus interrupted by the integration of an exogenous MMTV provirus in a BALB/c mammary tumor. We found a DNA rearrangement and transcriptional activation in the domain specified by the int-41 probe in one primary kidney adenocarcinoma. A 5.2-kb int-41 specific mRNA was detected in the kidney tumor cell line established from a transplantable renal adenocarcinoma. This mRNA hybridized with MMTV and int-41 specific probes suggesting that it is a hybrid molecule composed of MMTV-LTR sequences covalently linked to host cell RNA. This mRNA was strongly stimulated by the presence of glucocorticoid hormone in the culture medium. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that the int-41 chromosomal domain is involved in the neoplastic transformation of epithelial cells from different organs.

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