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Antigen expression of metastasizing and non-metastasizing human melanoma cells xenografted into nude mice

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In order to study differences in antigen expression related to the different stages of the process of metastasis of human melanoma cell lines, we determined the expression pattern of a series of well-characterized genes in a set of human melanoma cell lines with different metastatic behavior in nude mice. This set included non-metastatic (IF6, 530), sporadically metastatic (M14, Mel 57), and frequently metastatic (BLM, MV3) cell lines after subcutaneous inoculation. To study the phenotype of these cell lines both the cultured cells and representative samples of local tumors at the inoculation site and their metastases in the lungs were immunostained with a panel of monoclonal antibodies directed against melanocytic differentiation or progression antigens. Although most cell lines (IF6, 530, M14 and Mel 57) showed HLA-DR expressionin vitro, these antigens were lacking in all xenografted lesions studied with exception of the 530 cell line. 530 Xenografts, however, showed a dramatic down-regulation of HLA-DR compared with the cell linein vitro. The same phenomenon was seen with respect to ICAM-1 expression. The expression of all other antigens studied in xenografts, both in subcutaneous tumors and in lung lesions, was in general comparable to that in the melanoma cell linesin vitro, with exception of the 530 cell line. In all melanoma cell lines except 530 the degree of intra- and interlesional heterogeneity regarding the expression of all antigens studied was limited. Remarkably, comparison of the immunophenotype of the frequently metastasizing (BLM, MV3) and the sporadically (M14, Mel 57) or non-metastasizing (IF6, 530) cell lines showed that the two frequently metastasizing cell lines had marked expression of the progression antigens VLA-2 and epidermal growth factor receptor, and lack of expression of the differentiation antigen NKI-beteb. These findings warrant further studies on the role of these antigens in the process of metastasis of human melanoma cells in nude mice.

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    G. N. P. Van Muijen, L. M. H. A. Cornelissen, C. F. J. Jansen & D. J. Ruiter

  2. Department of Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066, CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Department of Immunology, University of Munich, Goethestrasse 31, D-8000, Munich 2, Germany

    J. P. Johnson

  4. Department of Dermatology, Wilhelms University, Von-Esmarch-Strasse 56, D-4400, Münster, Germany

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Van Muijen, G.N.P., Cornelissen, L.M.H.A., Jansen, C.F.J. et al. Antigen expression of metastasizing and non-metastasizing human melanoma cells xenografted into nude mice. Clin Exp Metast 9, 259–272 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01753729

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