Homogeneously staining chromosomal regions contain amplified copies of an abundantly expressed cellular oncogene (c-myc) in malignant neuroendocrine cells from a human colon carcinoma. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Two human neuroendocrine tumor cell lines derived from a colon carcinoma contain either numerous double minute chromosomes (COLO 320 DM) or a homogeneously staining marker chromosome (COLO 320 HSR). We found amplification and enhanced expression of the cellular oncogene c-myc in both COLO 320 DM and HSR cells, and we were able to show that the homogeneously staining regions of the COLO 320 HSR marker chromosome contain amplified c-myc. From previous and present karyotypes, it appears that the homogeneously staining regions reside on a distorted X chromosome. Therefore, amplification of c-myc has been accompanied by translocation of the gene from its normal position on chromosome 8 (8q24). Because double minute chromosomes were features of primary cultures from the original tumor, it seems reasonable to suspect that amplification of c-myc may have contributed to tumorigenesis.

publication date

  • March 1, 1983

Research

keywords

  • Apudoma
  • Colonic Neoplasms
  • Gene Amplification
  • Oncogenes

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC393672

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0020614995

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.80.6.1707

PubMed ID

  • 6300869

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 80

issue

  • 6