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Coculturing diverse clonal populations prevents the early-stage neoplastic progression that occurs in the separate clones.

Abstract：

:Most human cancers are of monoclonal origin and display many genetic alterations. In an effort to determine whether clonal expansion itself could account for the large number of genetic alterations, we compared spontaneous transformation in cloned and uncloned populations of NIH 3T3 cells. We have reported that progressive transformation of these cells, which is driven by the stress of prolonged contact inhibition at confluence, occurs far more frequently in cultures of recent monoclonal origin than in their uncloned progenitors. In the present work we asked how coculturing six clones at early and late stages of progression would affect the dynamics of transformation in repeated rounds of confluence. When coculture started with clones in early stages of transformation, marked by light focus formation, there was a strong inhibition of the progression to the dense focus formation that occurred in separate cultures of the individual clones. In contrast, when coculture started after the individual clones had progressed to dense focus formation, there was selection of transformants from the clone producing the largest and densest foci. Mixing the cells of a single clone with a large excess of uncloned cells from a subline that was refractory to transformation markedly decreased the size of dense foci from clones in transit from light to dense focus formation, but had much less effect on foci from clones with an established capacity for dense focus formation. The major finding of protection against progression by coculturing clones in early stages of transformation suggests that the expansion of a rogue clone in vivo increasingly isolates many of its cells from genetically stabilizing interactions with surrounding clones. Such clonal isolation might account for the increase in mutation rates associated with the dysplasia in colorectal adenomas that signifies the transition between benign and malignant growth.

journal_name

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

journal_title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors

Chow M,Rubin H

doi

10.1073/pnas.97.1.174

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pub_date

2000-01-04 00:00:00

pages

174-8

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eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

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Coculturing diverse clonal populations prevents the early-stage neoplastic progression that occurs in the separate clones.