PROGRESSIVE ELEVATION OF AP-1 ACTIVITY DURING PRENEOPLASTIC-TO-NEOPLASTIC PROGRESSION AS MODELED IN MOUSE JB6 CELL VARIANTS

  • Authors:
    • ZG DONG
    • RG WATTS
    • Y SUN
    • SN ZHAN
    • NH COLBURN
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  • Published online on: August 1, 1995     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.7.2.359
  • Pages: 359-364
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Abstract

The JB6 mouse epidermal cell system has been used extensively as an in vitro model for the study of tumor promotion and progression. The present study was directed to assessing the role of basal AP-1 activity in JB6 variants which represent preneoplastic to neoplastic progression and to addressing whether AP-1 activity is required for maintenance of the tumor phenotype. Constitutively higher AP-1 activity was found in tumorigenic JB6 RT101 cells than in later or earlier preneoplastic P+ or P- cells. Levels of c-jun mRNA and protein correlated with progression stage. Enhancement of AP-1 activity by TPA increased the formation of anchorage independent colonies by tumorigenic RT101 cells. Inhibition of AP-1 activity by retinoic acid or fluocinolone acetonide inhibited expression of tumor phenotype as measured by AI growth. These data together with our previous results suggest that in the JB6 model (i) basal levels of Jun and AP-1 appear to be important for preneoplastic-to-neoplastic progression; (ii) induced AP-1 appears to be required for further progression by tumor cells; (iii) constitutively elevated AP-I activity may be important for the expression of transformed phenotype; (iv) inhibition of AP-1 activity by RA or FA is not a general suppression of transcription but is gene-specific; and (v) even though both inhibition of AP-1 activity and activation of RARE-dependent or GRE-dependent gene transcription correlate with inhibition of AI growth in RT101 cells by RA or FA, transactivation of RARE or GRE might better correlate with the inhibition of AI growth than the inhibition of AP-1 activity in RT101 cells.

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DONG Z, WATTS R, SUN Y, ZHAN S and COLBURN N: PROGRESSIVE ELEVATION OF AP-1 ACTIVITY DURING PRENEOPLASTIC-TO-NEOPLASTIC PROGRESSION AS MODELED IN MOUSE JB6 CELL VARIANTS. Int J Oncol 7: 359-364, 1995.
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DONG, Z., WATTS, R., SUN, Y., ZHAN, S., & COLBURN, N. (1995). PROGRESSIVE ELEVATION OF AP-1 ACTIVITY DURING PRENEOPLASTIC-TO-NEOPLASTIC PROGRESSION AS MODELED IN MOUSE JB6 CELL VARIANTS. International Journal of Oncology, 7, 359-364. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.7.2.359
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DONG, Z., WATTS, R., SUN, Y., ZHAN, S., COLBURN, N."PROGRESSIVE ELEVATION OF AP-1 ACTIVITY DURING PRENEOPLASTIC-TO-NEOPLASTIC PROGRESSION AS MODELED IN MOUSE JB6 CELL VARIANTS". International Journal of Oncology 7.2 (1995): 359-364.
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DONG, Z., WATTS, R., SUN, Y., ZHAN, S., COLBURN, N."PROGRESSIVE ELEVATION OF AP-1 ACTIVITY DURING PRENEOPLASTIC-TO-NEOPLASTIC PROGRESSION AS MODELED IN MOUSE JB6 CELL VARIANTS". International Journal of Oncology 7, no. 2 (1995): 359-364. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.7.2.359