J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 9, 4831-4838, Mar, 1990

Suppression of rat mammary tumor cell growth in vitro by glucocorticoids requires serum proteins. Characterization of wild type and glucocorticoid-resistant epithelial tumor cells

MK Webster, J Guthrie and GL Firestone
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

CON8 is a single-cell derived subclone of the 13762NF transplantable, hormone-responsive rat mammary tumor that proliferates rapidly in serum- free medium. Addition of either glucocorticoids or calf serum alone caused a slight stimulation of CON8 proliferation. However, glucocorticoids required the presence of specific serum proteins to strongly suppress CON8 cell growth. Furthermore, the anchorage- independent growth of CON8 cells was significantly reduced in the presence of glucocorticoids and serum. We have designated this serum activity GMGSF, for glucocorticoid modulating growth suppression factor. Inhibition of cell growth was limited to steroids with strong glucocorticoid biological activity, while exposure to the glucocorticoid antagonist RU38486 prevented this response. Half-maximal growth inhibition and half-maximal expression of a glucocorticoid- inducible gene product (2 nM) occurred slightly below the half-maximal receptor binding of [3H]dexamethasone (10nM). We have also selected a variant mammary epithelial tumor cell line, derived from CON8, denoted 8RUV7, whose proliferation and soft agar colony formation failed to be suppressed by glucocorticoids in the presence of serum. These glucocorticoid-resistant variant cells possess functional glucocorticoid receptors, competently produce the glucocorticoid- responsive gene product plasminogen activator inhibitor, and along with CON8 cells express milk fat globule protein antigens on their cell surface, indicative of their mammary epithelial cell character. We are using this variant line to genetically dissect the molecular mechanism of the glucocorticoid/GMGSF growth suppression pathway in mammary epithelial tumor cells.
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