Spontaneous abnormalities in normal fibroblasts from patients with Li-Fraumeni cancer syndrome: aneuploidy and immortalization. 1990

F Z Bischoff, and S O Yim, and S Pathak, and G Grant, and M J Siciliano, and B C Giovanella, and L C Strong, and M A Tainsky
Department of Tumor Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.

Families of patients with the Li-Fraumeni cancer syndrome have an inherited pattern of sarcomas and various other types of cancers that follow a dominant mode of transmission, an early age of onset, and exhibit multiple primary tumors. As soft tissue sarcomas (including fibrosarcomas) are frequently observed with this syndrome, the in vitro growth characteristics of fibroblasts derived from skin biopsies of Li-Fraumeni syndrome patients were studied. Control fibroblasts maintained a normal morphology and eventually senesced in culture. Fibroblasts from seven of eight affected individuals developed changes in morphology, anchorage-independent growth, and chromosomal abnormalities. In a fashion similar to that of fibroblasts from normal donors they underwent a growth crisis during which their growth was slow, but they continued to grow past the point at which control samples had stopped dividing (35 population doublings). Fibroblasts from Li-Fraumeni cancer patients escape senescence, growing well beyond 35 population doublings with growth rates similar to early-passage cells. Patient fibroblasts maintain the morphology of a transformed cell but remain nontumorigenic in nude mice. These observations of the behavior of fibroblasts from patients with the Li-Fraumeni syndrome may have predictive value for the determination of gene carriers within these families who are at high risk of cancer.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007527 Isoenzymes Structurally related forms of an enzyme. Each isoenzyme has the same mechanism and classification, but differs in its chemical, physical, or immunological characteristics. Alloenzyme,Allozyme,Isoenzyme,Isozyme,Isozymes,Alloenzymes,Allozymes
D007621 Karyotyping Mapping of the KARYOTYPE of a cell. Karyotype Analysis Methods,Analysis Method, Karyotype,Analysis Methods, Karyotype,Karyotype Analysis Method,Karyotypings,Method, Karyotype Analysis,Methods, Karyotype Analysis
D009386 Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary The condition of a pattern of malignancies within a family, but not every individual's necessarily having the same neoplasm. Characteristically the tumor tends to occur at an earlier than average age, individuals may have more than one primary tumor, the tumors may be multicentric, usually more than 25 percent of the individuals in direct lineal descent from the proband are affected, and the cancer predisposition in these families behaves as an autosomal dominant trait with about 60 percent penetrance. Cancer Syndromes, Hereditary,Hereditary Cancer Syndromes,Hereditary Neoplastic Syndromes,Cancer Syndrome, Hereditary,Hereditary Cancer Syndrome,Hereditary Neoplastic Syndrome,Neoplastic Syndrome, Hereditary,Syndrome, Hereditary Cancer,Syndrome, Hereditary Neoplastic,Syndromes, Hereditary Cancer,Syndromes, Hereditary Neoplastic
D002448 Cell Adhesion Adherence of cells to surfaces or to other cells. Adhesion, Cell,Adhesions, Cell,Cell Adhesions
D002455 Cell Division The fission of a CELL. It includes CYTOKINESIS, when the CYTOPLASM of a cell is divided, and CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION. M Phase,Cell Division Phase,Cell Divisions,Division Phase, Cell,Division, Cell,Divisions, Cell,M Phases,Phase, Cell Division,Phase, M,Phases, M
D002460 Cell Line Established cell cultures that have the potential to propagate indefinitely. Cell Lines,Line, Cell,Lines, Cell
D005347 Fibroblasts Connective tissue cells which secrete an extracellular matrix rich in collagen and other macromolecules. Fibroblast
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000782 Aneuploidy The chromosomal constitution of cells which deviate from the normal by the addition or subtraction of CHROMOSOMES, chromosome pairs, or chromosome fragments. In a normally diploid cell (DIPLOIDY) the loss of a chromosome pair is termed nullisomy (symbol: 2N-2), the loss of a single chromosome is MONOSOMY (symbol: 2N-1), the addition of a chromosome pair is tetrasomy (symbol: 2N+2), the addition of a single chromosome is TRISOMY (symbol: 2N+1). Aneuploid,Aneuploid Cell,Aneuploid Cells,Aneuploidies,Aneuploids,Cell, Aneuploid,Cells, Aneuploid
D014407 Tumor Cells, Cultured Cells grown in vitro from neoplastic tissue. If they can be established as a TUMOR CELL LINE, they can be propagated in cell culture indefinitely. Cultured Tumor Cells,Neoplastic Cells, Cultured,Cultured Neoplastic Cells,Cell, Cultured Neoplastic,Cell, Cultured Tumor,Cells, Cultured Neoplastic,Cells, Cultured Tumor,Cultured Neoplastic Cell,Cultured Tumor Cell,Neoplastic Cell, Cultured,Tumor Cell, Cultured

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