A factor present in fetal calf serum enhances oncogene-induced transformation of rodent fibroblasts.

分餾的研究表明，存在于FCS的因子具有約1300的分子量，不是脂溶性，并且是酸，堿和熱穩(wěn)定的。這些結果表明，一個因子（多個）通常存在于血清可以增強腫瘤細胞在體內的出現(xiàn)，通過在多級致癌過程與活化的癌基因一致行動。

英文原文：

Our previous studies indicated that addition of the tumor promoters 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) or teleocidin to Dulbecco modified Eagle medium supplemented with calf serum enhanced T24-induced focus formation in both the murine C3H 10T1/2 and rat 6 embryo fibroblast cell lines. In the present studies we have found that fetal calf serum (FCS) is more potent than 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate in enhancing T24-induced focus formation, in terms of the number and size of the foci, in both C3H 10T1/2 and rat 6 cells. Time course studies indicate that FCS can exert this enhancing effect when it is added several days after the transfection with T24 DNA. In rat 6 cells, an 11-fold increase in T24-induced focus formation occurred when the transfected cultures were maintained for only 1 day in 5% FCS, starting 4 days after the transfection. Several known growth factors, including epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factors alpha and beta, insulin, and platelet-derived growth factor, did not enhance T24-induced transformation in these cell systems. Fractionation studies indicate that the factor present in FCS has a molecular weight of about 1,300, is not lipid soluble, and is acid, base, and heat stable. These findings suggest that a factor(s) normally present in serum may enhance the emergence of tumor cells in vivo, by acting in concert with an activated oncogene, during the multistage carcinogenic process.

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