Abstract
Addition of a potent promoter, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA), to primary avian tendon or chicken embryo fibroblast cells infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus produced a complete transformed phenocopy at the nonpermissive temperature by the criteria tested. While normal, uninfected cultures also shifted towards a transformed phenotype after TPA addition, they did not achieve the same degree of morphological and biochemical alteration seen in virus-infected, TPA-treated cells. It is proposed that viral carcinogenesis, despite its rapidity, may occur in two stages: an "initiation" step caused by expression of a part of viral genome other than src (or by integration) and a promotion step (itself a multistep process) caused by the activation of the src gene. The src gene product could be enhanced or replaced by other promoting agents.
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