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. 1982 Sep;79(17):5287–5291. doi: 10.1073/pnas.79.17.5287

Carcinogen-transformed human cells are inhibited from entry into S phase by fusion to senescent cells but cells transformed by DNA tumor viruses overcome the inhibition.

G H Stein, R M Yanishevsky, L Gordon, M Beeson
PMCID: PMC346881  PMID: 6957863

Abstract

Senescent human diploid cells (HDC) were fused to replicative transformed cells of different types, and DNA synthesis was monitored in the resulting heterodikaryons. Human cells transformed by simian virus 40 or adenovirus serotype 5 were able to induce DNA synthesis in senescent HDC nuclei in heterodikaryons. In contrast, carcinogen-transformed cells were not able to induce DNA synthesis in senescent HDC nuclei; rather, the transformed nuclei in these heterodikaryons were inhibited from entering S phase. Cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus and most human tumor cells tested are similarly inhibited by fusion to senescent HDC. These results suggest that the mechanism for transformation by DNA tumor viruses may be fundamentally different from that of other viruses and carcinogens and from that of most human tumor cells. A simple model to explain these results is that (i) senescent HDC contain an inhibitor of entry into S phase; (ii) cells transformed by DNA tumor viruses have gained a transforming factor, perhaps large tumor antigen, that is capable of overriding the normal inhibitor; and (iii) cells transformed by carcinogens or RNA viruses have lost or altered the mechanism for expression of the normal inhibitor yet are still sensitive to it. We propose that this inhibitor is produced in normal cells when they experience conditions that are inadequate for proliferation and that it plays a role in putting the cells into a distinct quiescent state with long-term viability. The override of this inhibitor function in simian virus 40-transformed HDC can explain why they have low viability in plateau-phase cultures and why they die during crisis.

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