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Ki-ras and the characteristics of mouse lung tumors

  1. Author:
    Ramakrishna, G. T.
    Bialkowska, A.
    Perella, C.
    Birely, L.
    Fornwald, L. W.
    Diwan, B. A.
    Shiao, Y. H.
    Anderson, L. M.
  2. Author Address

    Anderson LM NCI, Frederick Canc Res & Dev Ctr, Comparat Carcinogenesis Lab Box B,Bldg 538 Frederick, MD 21702 USA NCI, Frederick Canc Res & Dev Ctr, Comparat Carcinogenesis Lab Frederick, MD 21702 USA SAIC Frederick Inc, Intramural Res Support Program Frederick, MD USA NCI, Frederick Canc Res & Dev Ctr, Lab Anim Sci Program Frederick, MD 21702 USA
    1. Year: 2000
  1. Journal: Molecular Carcinogenesis
    1. 28
    2. 3
    3. Pages: 156-167
  2. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    Codon 12 mutations are frequent in the Ki-ras oncogene in human lung adenocarcinomas, but the effects of these alterations have not been well characterized in lung epithelial cells. Murine primary lung tumors derived from peripheral epithelial cells also may present Ki-ras mutations and are useful models for study of early phases of tumor development. One hypothesis is that Ki-ras mutation and/or a Ki-ras p21 increase could enhance Ki-ras p21-GTP and cell-cycle stimulation through raf-1 and extracellularly regulated protein kinases (Erks). We examined lung tumors 1-7 mm in largest dimension initiated in male Swiss mice by N-nitrosoldimethylamine for pathologic type, Ki-ras mutations and levels of total Ki-ras p21, Ki-ras p21 bound to GTP, raf-1, Erk1 and Erk2 and their phosphorylated (activated) forms; and proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Total Ki-ras p21 and activated ras-GTP were not significantly greater in tumors than in normal lung or in tumors with versus those without Ki-ras mutations. Carcinomas with Ki-ras mutations were significantly smaller than those without mutations. Carcinomas were significantly larger than adenomas only for tumors without mutations. High levels of Erk1 and correlation of Erk2 amount with ras-GTP were specific characteristics of tumors with Ki-ras mutations. Size of all tumors correlated with ras-GTP but not with proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Raf-1 was expressed mainly in alveolar macrophages in normal lung but was focally upregulated in papillary areas of some tumors. The results indicate that Ki-ras influences the characteristics of lung tumors, but a linear ras-raf-Erk-cell-cycle control sequence does not adequately characterize tumorigenic events in this model. Published 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.(dagger). [References: 47]

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