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Chemically induced forestomach papillomas in transgenic mice carry mutant human c-Ha-ras transgenes.

Forestomach papillomas and skin papillomas were induced very efficiently by a single dose administration of the chemical carcinogen methylnitrosourea (MNU) in transgenic mice (rasH2 line) carrying human hybrid c-Ha-ras genes, which encode the prototype p21 gene product. The incidence of forestomach papillomas was dose dependent; when 50 mg/kg of MNU were administered i.p., all of the transgenic mice (56 of 56) developed forestomach papillomas within 12 weeks after administration, whereas 5 and 0.5 mg/kg of MNU induced papillomas in 2 of 19 and 1 of 19 mice, respectively. Nine of 56 transgenic mice (16%) also developed skin papillomas at sites wounded by bites or scratches. Only 1 of 77 nontransgenic littermates developed forestomach papillomas after administration of 50 mg/kg of MNU, and no skin papillomas appeared within 12 weeks after MNU administration. The transgenes (integrated copy number, 5-6) in the tumors developed in 55 of 56 affected transgenic mice (98%) contained at least 1 copy of the transgene that was activated by somatic point mutation at the 12th codon, from GGC (Gly) to GAC (Asp). Because somatic point mutations at the 12th or 61st codon of transgenes have never been detected in normal tissues of transgenic mice thus far examined, these mutational activations of transgenes are tumor-specific events. RNA expression of these activated transgenes was also detected. From these results, it is suggested that somatic mutational activation of the human c-Ha-ras transgene plays a causative role in the occurrence of forestomach and skin papillomas induced by MNU administration in these transgenic mice. This transgenic mouse provides a unique screening system for chemicals that induce or suppress papillomagenesis.[1]

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  1. Chemically induced forestomach papillomas in transgenic mice carry mutant human c-Ha-ras transgenes. Ando, K., Saitoh, A., Hino, O., Takahashi, R., Kimura, M., Katsuki, M. Cancer Res. (1992) [Pubmed]
 
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