Podsypanina K, Du YC, Jechlinger M, Beverly LJ, Hambardzumyan D, Varmus H.
Program in Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. podsypak@mskcc.org
The acquisition of metastatic ability by tumor cells is considered a late event in the evolution of malignant tumors. We report that untransformed mouse mammary cells that have been engineered to express the inducible oncogenic transgenes MYC and Kras(D12), or polyoma middle T, and introduced into the systemic circulation of a mouse can bypass transformation at the primary site and develop into metastatic pulmonary lesions upon immediate or delayed oncogene induction. Therefore, previously untransformed mammary cells may establish residence in the lung once they have entered the bloodstream and may assume malignant growth upon oncogene activation. Mammary cells lacking oncogenic transgenes displayed a similar capacity for long-term residence in the lungs but did not form ectopic tumors.
Science. 2008 Sep 26;321(5897):1841-4.
(This article has been recommended by F. Barriga, a grad student at IRB Barcelona (Institute for Research in Biomedicine) and has been labelled as such.
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