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1 Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
2 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr C P Morales, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centre at El Paso, Division of Gastroenterology (rm 128), 4800 Alberta, El Paso, Texas 79905, USA;
cpmoral{at}swbell.net
Background and aims: Oesophageal cell lines derived from malignancies have numerous genetic abnormalities and therefore are of limited value for studying the early events in carcinogenesis. Reported attempts to establish normal human oesophageal cell lines either have failed to achieve immortalisation or have achieved it by disrupting important cell functions. We have used telomerase technology to establish normal human oesophageal cell lines.
Methods: Endoscopic biopsy specimens of normal oesophageal squamous epithelium were trypsinised, dispersed into single cell suspensions, and cocultivated with ATCC Swiss 3T3 cells. Oesophageal cells were infected with the catalytic subunit of human telomerase (hTERT) using a defective retroviral vector. The integrity of cell cycle checkpoints was tested by measuring p53 response to UV irradiation, and p16 response to infection with H-RasGV12. Expression of a differentiation marker was tested by measuring involucrin response to calcium exposure.
Results: Cultures of uninfected oesophageal cells had weak telomerase activity at baseline but exhibited loss of telomerase activity and progressive telomere shortening before undergoing senescence between population doublings (PD) 40–45. In contrast, hTERT infected cells exhibited sustained telomerase activity and stabilisation of telomere length. These cells have reached PD 100 with no diminution in growth rate, while cell cycle checkpoint integrity and involucrin response to calcium exposure have remained intact.
Conclusions: By introducing telomerase into normal human oesophageal squamous cells cocultivated with feeder layers, we have established a cell line that retains normal cell cycle checkpoints and normal differentiation markers. This cell line may be useful for studying the early events in oesophageal carcinogenesis.
Keywords: telomerase; oesophagus; squamous cells
Abbreviations: hTERT, human telomerase; PBS, phosphate buffered saline; PD, population doublings; CK, cytokeratin; DMEM, Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s media
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