Phenotypic characteristics of cells derived from precursors of human melanoma.

Of 66 specimens from benign melanocytic nevi, including common acquired and congenital nevi, Spitz tumors (epithelioid cell nevi), and melanocytic nevi with dysplasia, 57 could be grown in tissue culture. The cultured cells were identified as melanocytes by the presence of premelanosomes and melanosomes. Cells from 28 of 32 nevus cultures grew in an anchorage-independent way in soft agar with a colony-forming efficiency between 0.001 and 1%. Clones derived from single cells and soft agar-selected colonies showed marked phenotypic heterogeneity, but all had a limited life span and did not undergo transformation in culture. These cells were nontumorigenic in nude mice. Cultured nevus cells expressed antigens present on melanoma but absent on normal fibroblasts and/or melanocytes as tested with monoclonal anti-melanoma antibodies. The anti-melanoma antibodies bound equally well to dysplastic, congenital, and common acquired nevi. Antigens are released by nevus cells similar to melanoma cells.

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