TY - JOUR
T1 - Biological Consequences of Overexpression of a Transfected c-erbB-2 Gene in Immortalized Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells
AU - Noguchi, Masayuki
AU - Murakami, Masakazu
AU - Bennett, William
AU - Lupu, Ruth
AU - Hui, Ferdinand
AU - Harris, Curtis C.
AU - Gerwin, Brenda I.
PY - 1993/5
Y1 - 1993/5
N2 - In order to examine the effects of the overexpression of c-erbB-2 (HER-2, neu) on human bronchial epithelial cells, a human c-erbB-2 expression vector was introduced into the simian virus 40 large T-antigen-immortalized human bronchial epithelial cell line BEAS-2B. Isolation of multiple clonal cell lines after selection revealed a wide range of expression of the gene product gp185erbB-2. While three of six clones tested expressed gp185erbB-2 at levels detectable by immunocytochemistry, only one, B2BE6, induced adenocarcinoma-like tumors in athymic nude mice. Both a nontumorigenic clone, B2BE2, and a tumorigenic clone, B2BE6, expressed comparable amounts of gp185erbB-2, which became phosphory-lated on tyrosine in response to treatment with the c-erbB-2 ligands gp30 and p75. These data suggest that overexpression of c-erbB-2 in human bronchial epithelial cells can contribute to, but is not sufficient for, induction of tumorigenicity in this human model system.
AB - In order to examine the effects of the overexpression of c-erbB-2 (HER-2, neu) on human bronchial epithelial cells, a human c-erbB-2 expression vector was introduced into the simian virus 40 large T-antigen-immortalized human bronchial epithelial cell line BEAS-2B. Isolation of multiple clonal cell lines after selection revealed a wide range of expression of the gene product gp185erbB-2. While three of six clones tested expressed gp185erbB-2 at levels detectable by immunocytochemistry, only one, B2BE6, induced adenocarcinoma-like tumors in athymic nude mice. Both a nontumorigenic clone, B2BE2, and a tumorigenic clone, B2BE6, expressed comparable amounts of gp185erbB-2, which became phosphory-lated on tyrosine in response to treatment with the c-erbB-2 ligands gp30 and p75. These data suggest that overexpression of c-erbB-2 in human bronchial epithelial cells can contribute to, but is not sufficient for, induction of tumorigenicity in this human model system.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 7683250
AN - SCOPUS:0027262985
SN - 0008-5472
VL - 53
SP - 2035
EP - 2043
JO - Cancer research
JF - Cancer research
IS - 9
ER -