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Tumorigenic conversion of a non‐tumorigenic rat urothelial cell line by overexpression of H 2 O 2 ‐generating peroxisomal fatty acyl‐C o A oxidase
Author(s) -
Okamoto Masato,
Reddy Janardan K.,
Oyasu Ryoichi
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19970317)70:6<716::aid-ijc14>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - biology , peroxisome , cancer research , endocrinology , biochemistry , receptor
Hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and some cytokines that are released during the inflammatory process are important factors for the development of unirary bladder carcinoma and for its growth. Sustained induction of H 2 O 2 ‐generating peroxisomal fatty acyl‐CoA oxidase (ACOX) in the liver of rats and mice by non‐genotoxic peroxisome proliferators leads to the development of liver tumors. To examine the role of intracelluar H 2 O 2 generated by ACOX during urinary bladder carcinogenesis, we overexpressed rat ACOX in a non‐tumorigenic rat urothelial cell line, MYP3, under the control of the cytomegalovirus promoter. The clones overexpressing rat ACOX, when exposed to a fatty‐acid substrate (150 μM linoleic acid), demonstrated strikingly higher levels of intracellular H 2 O 2 (p > 0.001) and formed colonies in soft agar in proportion to the duration of exposure to linoleic acid. Furthermore, all the transformants, which were selected at random from soft agar, demonstrated an accelerated growth potential on a plastic surface, as well as tumorigenicity in athymic nude mice. In addition, the growth of these transformants was stimulated by cytokines, interleukin‐6 and tumor necrosis factor‐α, better than the growth of ACOX‐overex pressing, but non‐transformed cells or that of the parental cells. Our results clearly demonstrate that H 2 O 2 induced by ACOX acts as a carcinogen on urothelial cells, and that transformed cells have acquired an advantage for growth over nonneoplastic cells because of their selective response to the stimulatory action of several cytokines. Int. J. Cander 70:716–721, 1997. © Wiley‐Liss, Inc.