Hras1, H340T and H245T tumor cell lines were establish from thyroid tumors from HrasG12V/Pten−/−/TPO-Cre mice. Thyroid tumors were dissected and minced, followed by digestion in a solution of 1 mg/ml collagenase Type I (Sigma) and dispase (Gibco) in Hank's Balanced Salt Solution at 37°C with gentle shaking for 1.5 hours. Following digestion, samples were centrifuged at 1200 rpm for 3 minutes and resuspended in F12 medium (Gibco) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco), 2 mM L-Glutamine (Gibco), and Penicillin/Streptomycin/Fungizone (Sigma). The samples were then plated into tissue culture flasks and maintained at 37°C in 5% CO2. To ensure removal of contaminating stromal cells and purity of the tumor cell lines, all cell lines were genotyped using primers specific for Pten and Pten recombination [24 (link)].