Author:
Fuscoe J C,Fenwick R G,Ledbetter D H,Caskey C T
Abstract
Somatic cell selective techniques and hybridization analyses with a cloned cDNA probe were used to isolate and identify Chinese hamster cell lines in which the X-linked gene for hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) has been altered. Two of 19 HGPRT-deficient mutants selected were found to have major DNA deletions affecting the HGPRT locus. Cytogenetic studies revealed that the X chromosome of each deletion mutant had undergone a translocation event, whereas those from the remaining 17 mutants were normal. Phenotypic revertants of the thermosensitive HGPRT mutant RJK526 were isolated, and amplification of the mutant allele was shown to be the predominant mechanism of reversion. Comparisons of restriction enzyme fragments of DNA from deletion versus amplification strains identified two regions of the Chinese hamster genome that contained homology to the cDNA probe. One was shown to be much larger than the 1,600-nucleotide mRNA for HGPRT and to be comprised of linked fragments that contained the functional HGPRT gene. The second was neither transcribed nor tightly linked to the functional gene. These initial studies of HGPRT alterations at the level of DNA thus identified molecular mechanisms of phenotypic variation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
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