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Mol Cell Biol. 1987 February; 7(2): 664-671

Induction of clonal monocyte-macrophage tumors in vivo by a mouse c-myc retrovirus: rearrangement of the CSF-1 gene as a secondary transforming event.

ABSTRACT

A mouse retrovirus containing the c-myc oncogene was found to induce tumors of mononuclear phagocytic cells in vivo. All tumors expressed the c-myc retroviral gene but not the endogenous c-myc gene (with one exception), and virtually all tumors were clonal with a unique proviral integration. This observation, coupled with a lag time in tumor formation, suggests that a second event, in addition to c-myc proviral integration, is necessary for the generation of neoplastic cells in vivo. All of the tumor cells expressed high levels of mRNA for both the putative colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) receptor (c-fms proto-oncogene product), as well as the c-fos proto-oncogene. Although all of the tumor cells proliferated in culture without the addition of exogenous CSF-1, which is required for the proliferation of primary macrophages partially transformed by the same c-myc retrovirus, several phenotypes were observed with respect to the expression of CSF-1 and granulocyte-macrophage CSF and to their growth factor responsiveness. The proliferation of one tumor, which secreted high levels of CSF-1, was blocked by specific anti-CSF-1 serum. This tumor was found to express altered CSF-1 mRNA and to have a DNA rearrangement at the CSF-1 locus. In this particular case, the data indicate that a CSF-1 gene rearrangement was the secondary event in development of the tumor. The pleiotropy of phenotypes among the other tumors indicated that there are a variety of other mechanisms for such secondary events which can be investigated with this system.

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