Transcription profiling of mouse control cell line and a cell line surviving exposure to tumor-specific CTL (cytolytic T lymphocyte)

The CMS4 sarcoma, kindly provided by A. DeLeo (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA), is a solid tumor of BALB/c (H-2d) origin, which grows aggressively in naive, syngeneic hosts following a s.c. transplant. Although the parental tumor cell line forms few metastatic foci in the lungs following i.v. administration, a highly metastatic subline, termed CMS4-met, was established from lung digests of those mice as described (Ryan MH, Bristol JA, McDuffie E, Abrams SI. Regression of extensive pulmonary metastases in mice by adoptive transfer of antigen-specific CD8(+) CTL reactive against tumor cells expressing a naturally occurring rejection epitope. J Immunol 2001;167:4286-92).