Volume 65, Issue 6 pp. 840-846
Experimental Cancer

Growth arrest and suppression of tumorigenicity of bladder carcinoma cell lines induced by the P16/CDKN2 (p16INK4A, MTS1) gene and other loci on human chromosome 9

Qiang Wu

Qiang Wu

Institute of Microbiology and Interdepartment Center for Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara

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Laura Possati

Laura Possati

Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy

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Marco Montesi

Marco Montesi

Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy

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Francesca Gualandi

Francesca Gualandi

Institute of Microbiology and Interdepartment Center for Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara

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Paola Rimessi

Paola Rimessi

Institute of Microbiology and Interdepartment Center for Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara

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Cristina Morelli

Cristina Morelli

Institute of Microbiology and Interdepartment Center for Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara

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Cecilia Trabanelli

Cecilia Trabanelli

Institute of Microbiology and Interdepartment Center for Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara

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Giuseppe Barbanti Brodano

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Giuseppe Barbanti Brodano

Institute of Microbiology and Interdepartment Center for Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara

Institute of Microbiology, University of Ferrara, Via Luigi Borsari 46. I-44100 Ferrara, ItalySearch for more papers by this author

Abstract

Wild-type P16/CDKN2 (p16INK4A, MTSI) cDNA, directed by the cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate early promoter, was transfected into RT4 and RT112 bladder-carcinoma cell lines bearing a mutated endogenous P16/CDKN2 gene and lacking endogenous P16/CDKN2 respectively. In both cases, only transfected clones with rearranged exogenous P16/CDKN2 cDNA could be grown and propagated in cell culture. This result is reminiscent of transfection of wild-type p53 into cells with a deleted or mutated endogenous gene and suggests that P16/CDKN2, over-expressed under control of the strong CMV promoter, induces growth arrest in RT4 and RT112 cells. Transfer of human chromosome 9 to RT4 cells produced RT4/H9 hybrid clones retaining the P16/CDKN2 gene, since in RT4/H9 cell clones P16/CDKN2-gene expression is modulated by the physiological control of chromosomal regulatory sequences. All the RT4/H9 clones lost the entire chromosome 9, except clone 4 and clone 5, which maintained a deleted and an intact chromosome 9 respectively. Loss of several loci in 9p21, including P16/CDKN2, in tumors induced in nude mice by clone 4 and clone 5 suggests that P16/CDKN2 or other genes in 9p21 suppress tumorigenicity in bladder-carcinoma cells. Tumors induced by clone 4 and clone 5 show loss of markers in 9q. The regions 9q22.3, 9q32–33 and 9q34.2, which were maintained in the 2 clones and lost in their derived tumors, may contain tumor-suppressor genes relevant in bladder carcinoma. The results of this study suggest that the P16/CDKN2 gene controls growth of bladder-carcinoma cells when it is over-expressed, and may be involved in the development of bladder carcinoma, but other genes in 9p21 and 9q may participate in bladder-cancer progression. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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