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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 September; 5(9): 2476-2486

Regulation of cellular phenotype and expression of polyomavirus middle T antigen in rat fibroblasts.

ABSTRACT

Polyoma middle T antigen (mT) was expressed in rat F-111 cells under control of the dexamethasone-regulatable mouse mammary tumor virus promoter. Graded phenotypic responses to levels of mT induction by the hormone were seen, with morphological transformation, focus formation, and anchorage-independent growth requiring increasing levels of mT expression. The ability of different clones to form tumors reflected their maximum level of induction of mT-associated kinase and their ability to grow in soft agar. Expression of transformation parameters and tumorigenicity correlates with the level of mT phosphorylated by pp60c-src in immune complexes and not with the total amount of mT determined by metabolic labeling. We suggest that cellular factors regulate mT activity by forming a kinase-active fraction of mT molecules that controls the transformed state.

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