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. 1990:30:133-42.
doi: 10.1016/0065-2571(90)90014-s.

Transforming signals generated by the polyoma virus tumor antigens

L Raptis  1 , R C Marcellus, J F Whitfield
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Transforming signals generated by the polyoma virus tumor antigens

L Raptis et al. Adv Enzyme Regul. 1990.

Abstract

The secretion of a threshold amount of SAGF can elicit one of the major features of the transformed phenotype, anchorage-independent growth. It appears that, like other cells, NIH 3T3 cells make and secrete SAGF, but not enough to enable them to proliferate in soft agar. The stream of signals from polyoma virus MTAg:pp60c-src:PI-kinase complexes attached to the inner surface of the cell membrane is not enough to raise SAGF secretion to the threshold level for agar growth, but these signals can powerfully enhance the responsiveness to added SAGF. Only when NIH 3T3 cells express all three polyoma T antigens do they secrete enough SAGF and become responsive enough to the factor to form colonies in soft agar. This is in contrast to F111 cells which produce adequate amounts of, and respond to, SAGF after MTAg expression alone. The reasons for this difference remain to be investigated. Obviously, factors expressed during the course of the spontaneous establishment are different for these two lines and they affect the cells' response to MTAg. Clearly, knowing how polyoma virus transforms cells will require a deeper understanding of the deregulation of membrane signaling enzymes by the viral MTAg and the identification and characterization of the autocrine SAGF's that mediate at least part of the neoplastic response to the viral signals.

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