Autonomous growth and tumorigenicity induced by P40/interleukin 9 cDNA transfection of a mouse P40-dependent T cell line
(1991) The Journal of Experimental Medicine — Vol. 173, n° 2, p. 519-522 (1991)
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Van Snick, Jacques 
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- To test the transforming potential of deregulated P40/Interleukin 9 expression, we transfected a mouse P40-dependent T cell line with P40 cDNA, and examined the tumorigenicity of the resulting transfectants. When the cells, which grew autonomously in vitro, were injected intraperitoneally or subcutaneously into syngeneic mice, a very high tumor incidence was observed with as few as 10(4) cells per inoculum. Animals died as a result of widespread dissemination of lymphomatous tissue to abdominal and thoracic organs. The same P40-dependent cell line transfected with a control construct did not form tumors even after injection of 10(7) cells. These results indicate that uncontrolled expression of P40 can support T cell proliferation in vivo, and may be a transforming event involved in the development of certain T cell tumors.
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Uyttenhove, C., Druez, C., Renauld, J.-C., Hérin, M., Noël, H., & Van Snick, J. (1991). Autonomous growth and tumorigenicity induced by P40/interleukin 9 cDNA transfection of a mouse P40-dependent T cell line. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 173(2), 519-522. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.173.2.519 (Original work published 1991)