Chemical carcinogens transform BHK cells by inducing a recessive mutation.

AUTOR(ES)

Bouck, N

RESUMO

Treatment of BHK cells with mutagenic carcinogens induced neoplastic transformation in a single step. This transformation displayed the characteristics expected for a recessive mutation. Increasing doses of carcinogens induced transformants with kinetics similar to the kinetics with which they induced 6-thioguanine-resistant or ouabain-resistant mutants in the same population of cells. Transformants with temperature-restricted phenotypes were easily induced by carcinogens which cause mutations by base changes, but when ICR frameshift mutagens were used, the proportion of temperature-limited transformants was inversely related to the frequency with which a particular mutagen induced frameshift mutations. In hybrids between pseudodiploid isogenic strains of normal and transformed BHK cells, transformation was expressed as a dominant trait when the transformed parent was induced by a papovavirus, but was suppressed as a recessive trait when the transformed parent arose spontaneously or was chemically induced. Segregation of transformation was observed upon growth of suppressed normal hybrids, and the transformed phenotype which was reexpressed was in most cases characteristics of the original transformed parent.

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