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. 1991 Jan 15;88(2):570-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.2.570.

Progression of human papillomavirus type 18-immortalized human keratinocytes to a malignant phenotype

P J Hurlin  1 , P Kaur, P P Smith, N Perez-Reyes, R A Blanton, J K McDougall
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Progression of human papillomavirus type 18-immortalized human keratinocytes to a malignant phenotype

P J Hurlin et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

We have developed a model system for progression of human epithelial cells to malignancy, using a human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV-18)-immortalized human keratinocyte cell line. Cells of cell line FEP-1811 were nontumorigenic in athymic mice through at least 12 passages in culture, but after 32 passages were weakly tumorigenic, producing tumors that regressed. After 62 passages they produced invasive squamous cell carcinomas that grew progressively. The progression to malignancy was associated with an increase in the efficiency of forming colonies in soft agar and with altered differentiation properties. In an organotypic culture system, FEP-1811 cells at passages 12 and 32 exhibited features typical of premalignant intraepithelial neoplasia in vivo, and cells at passage 68 exhibited features consistent with squamous cell carcinomas. No change in copy number of the transfected HPV-18 genome or in the level of expression of the viral transforming gene products E6 and E7 was detected between tumorigenic and nontumorigenic cells. Cytogenetic analysis of cells at early, middle, and late passage levels and cells cultured from tumors revealed that several chromosomal abnormalities segregated with the tumorigenic cell populations.

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