Abstract
A human melanoma cell line with unusually high growth potential was established from a xenograft growing in athymic mice. When xenograft fragments were cultured in vitro, melanoma cells grew out rapidly without any contamination of mouse stromal cells. An established cell line, FME, derived from this tumour, grew both in monolayer and in shaker suspension culture with doubling times of about 20 h. The cells grew easily at low serum concentrations and could even be cultured in serum-free medium supplemented with insulin and transferrin. The cultured cells were hyperdiploid, as were the cells of the xenograft. The cells grew easily in soft agar and formed tumours in athymic mice. When growing exponentially, the cells were almost unpigmented, but when grown to high density, their melanin content increased. Upon treatment with dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO), retinoic acid and theophylline, as well as with the tumour promoter 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA), the cells showed growth inhibition and increased melanin synthesis.
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