Steady-state levels of c-Ha-ras mRNA were measured in eight sublines of the Dunning R3327 rat prostatic adenocarcinoma. As a control, normal dorsal prostate tissue was studied. Increased expression of c-Ha-ras is associated with tumor progression in one lineage of the Dunning R3327 system (H to AT1 to MAT-Lu and MAT-Ly-Lu). Here ras mRNA increases as the tumor advances from androgen dependence and a high degree of differentiation to an anaplastic aneuploid phenotype with high metastatic potential. However, in the other Dunning lineage (H to HI to HI-F to AT3), expression of c-Ha-ras is variable and does not correlate with tumor progression. Immunocytochemistry showed that levels of the c-Ha-ras p21 protein paralleled steady-state mRNA levels in variants. Transfection assays, using NIH/3T3 cells, suggested that the ras loci were not activated in the R3327 tumors. Levels of c-Ki-ras mRNA were also measured in the Dunning tumors; these did not correlate with tumor progression in either lineage. Expression of N-ras mRNA was not detected in the Dunning tumors.
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