Publications | PubMed=3140712 Namba M., Nishitani K., Fukushima F., Kimoto T. Multistep carcinogenesis of normal human fibroblasts. Human fibroblasts immortalized by repeated treatment with Co-60 gamma rays were transformed into tumorigenic cells with Ha-ras oncogenes. Anticancer Res. 8:947-958(1988) PubMed=3413074; DOI=10.1073/pnas.85.16.6042; PMCID=PMC281901 Pereira-Smith O.M., Smith J.R. Genetic analysis of indefinite division in human cells: identification of four complementation groups. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85:6042-6046(1988) DOI=10.11418/jtca1981.12.4_313 Namba M., Bai L., Kano Y., Sugihara S., Miyazaki M. Multistep malignant transformation of human cells: immortalization of human fibroblasts by treatment with 60Co gamma rays and 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide, and their malignant transformation with the ras oncogene. Tissue Cult. Res. Commun. 12:313-318(1993) PubMed=8105370; DOI=10.1128/mcb.13.10.6036-6043.1993; PMCID=PMC364663 Ogata T., Ayusawa D., Namba M., Takahashi E., Oshimura M., Oishi M. Chromosome 7 suppresses indefinite division of nontumorigenic immortalized human fibroblast cell lines KMST-6 and SUSM-1. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:6036-6043(1993) PubMed=8148305 Namba M., Iijima M., Kondo T., Jahan I., Mihara K. Immortalization of normal human cells is a multistep process and a rate limiting step of neoplastic transformation of the cells. Hum. Cell 6:253-259(1993) PubMed=7705936; DOI=10.1002/ijc.2910610113 Kawashima K., Mihara K., Usuki H., Shimizu N., Namba M. Transfected mutant p53 gene increases X-ray-induced cell killing and mutation in human fibroblasts immortalized with 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide but does not induce neoplastic transformation of the cells. Int. J. Cancer 61:76-79(1995) PubMed=8557247; DOI=10.1007/BF00218823 Sugihara S., Mihara K., Marunouchi T., Inoue H., Namba M. Telomere elongation observed in immortalized human fibroblasts by treatment with 60Co gamma rays or 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide. Hum. Genet. 97:1-6(1996) PubMed=8744932; DOI=10.18926/AMO/30489 Iijima M., Kano Y., Nohno T., Namba M. Cloning of cDNA with possible transcription factor activity at the G1-S phase transition in human fibroblast cell lines. Acta Med. Okayama 50:73-77(1996) PubMed=8790940; DOI=10.1247/csf.21.111 Mihara K., Iijima M., Kondo T., Namba M. Selective expression of mutated p53 in human cells immortalized with either 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide or 60Co gamma rays. Cell Struct. Funct. 21:111-116(1996) DOI=10.11418/jtca1981.16.3_173 Mihara K., Miyazaki M., Fushimi K., Tsuji T., Inoue Y., Fukaya K.-i., Ohashi R., Namba M. The p53 gene status and other cellular characteristics of human cell lines maintained in our laboratory. Tissue Cult. Res. Commun. 16:173-178(1997) PubMed=9175740; DOI=10.1093/hmg/6.6.921 Bryan T.M., Marusic L., Bacchetti S., Namba M., Reddel R.R. The telomere lengthening mechanism in telomerase-negative immortal human cells does not involve the telomerase RNA subunit. Hum. Mol. Genet. 6:921-926(1997) PubMed=9290701; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199708)19:4<243::AID-MC5>3.0.CO;2-D Jia L.-Q., Osada M., Ishioka C., Gamo M., Ikawa S., Suzuki T., Shimodaira H., Niitani T., Kudo T., Akiyama M., Kimura N., Matsuo M., Mizusawa H., Tanaka N., Koyama H., Namba M., Kanamaru R., Kuroki T. Screening the p53 status of human cell lines using a yeast functional assay. Mol. Carcinog. 19:243-253(1997) PubMed=9359923; DOI=10.18926/AMO/30789 Mihara K., Miyazaki M., Kondo T., Fushimi K., Tsuji T., Inoue Y., Fukaya K.-i., Ishioka C., Namba M. Yeast functional assay of the p53 gene status in human cell lines maintained in our laboratory. Acta Med. Okayama 51:261-265(1997) CLPUB00712 Henson J.D. The role of alternative lengthening of telomeres in human cancer. Thesis PhD (2006); University of Sydney; Sydney; Australia PubMed=19935656; DOI=10.1038/nbt.1587 Henson J.D., Cao Y., Huschtscha L.I., Chang A.C.-M., Au A.Y.M., Pickett H.A., Reddel R.R. DNA C-circles are specific and quantifiable markers of alternative-lengthening-of-telomeres activity. Nat. Biotechnol. 27:1181-1185(2009) |