Adenovirus-Mediated Expression of Human Prorelaxin Promotes the Invasive Potential of Canine Mammary Cancer Cells
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study reports the characterization of a recombinant adenoviral vector containing a tetracycline-regulatable promoter, driving the bicistronic expression of the human H2 preprorelaxin (hH2) cDNA and enhanced green fluorescent protein, via an internal ribosomal entry site. An hH2 ELISA was used to measure the secreted levels of recombinant hH2 in transfected canine (CF33.Mt) and human (MDA-MB-435) mammary cancer cell lines over a 6-d period; secreted peptide peaked on d 2 and 4 for the canine and human cell types, respectively. An unprocessed hH2 immunoreactive form of approximately 18 kDa was identified by Western blotting analysis and confirmed by mass spectrometry, suggesting that prorelaxin remains unprocessed in these cell types. The biological activity of the adenovirally expressed human prorelaxin was measured in the established human monocytic cell line THP-1 cAMP ELISA and in an in vitro Transwell cell migration system. Exogenous recombinant hH2 and adenovirally-mediated delivery of prorelaxin to CF33.Mt cells conferred a significant migratory action in the cells, compared with controls. Cell proliferation assays were performed to discount the possibility that the effect of relaxin was mitogenic. Thus, we have demonstrated that prorelaxin has the ability to facilitate cell migration processes exclusive of its ability to stimulate cell proliferation. In validating this adenovirus-based system, we have created a potential tool for further exploration of the physiology of relaxin in mammalian systems.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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