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Overexpression of the human MYCN oncogene driven by a tyrosine hydroxylase promoter causes tumours in transgenic mice that recapitulate the childhood cancer neuroblastoma. To establish an in vitro model to study this process, a series of isogenic cell lines were developed from these MYCN-driven murine tumours. Lines were established from tumours arising in homozygous and hemizygous MYCN transgenic mice. Hemizygous tumours gave rise to cell lines growing only in suspension. Homozygous tumours gave rise to similar suspension lines as well as morphologically distinct substrate-adherent lines characteristic of human S-type neuroblastoma cells. FISH analysis demonstrated selective MYCN transgene amplification in cell lines derived from hemizygous mice. Comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) and fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) analysis confirmed a range of neuroblastoma-associated genetic changes in the various lines, in particular, gain of regions syntenic with human 17q. These isogenic lines together with the transgenic mice thus represent valuable models for investigating the biological characteristics of aggressive neuroblastoma. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Cheng AJ, Ching Cheng N, Ford J, Smith J, Murray JE, Flemming C, Lastowska M, Jackson MS, Hackett CS, Weiss WA, Marshall GM, Kees UR, Norris MD, Haber M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: European Journal of Cancer
Year: 2007
Volume: 43
Issue: 9
Pages: 1467-1475
Print publication date: 01/06/2007
ISSN (print): 0959-8049
ISSN (electronic): 1879-0852
Publisher: Pergamon
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2007.03.008
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.03.008
PubMed id: 17449239
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