Abstract
A mouse cell line (LP1-1) was established from the murine L cells deficient in thymidine kinase (L-M(TK-)) by prolonged selective culture on the hypoxanthine-aminopterine-thymidine (HAT) medium following transfection with the thymidine kinase gene of herpes simplex virus type-I (HSV TK). Southern blot analysis has shown that the viral TK gene was integrated into one of the chromosomal loci by a single copy. From this established cell line, the 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) resistant revertant was brought out at a frequency of 1×10-6 and from these BrdU resistant revertants (LP1BU), one out of 1×105 cells could return to the HAT-resistant phenotype. The established LP1-1 cell line showed a typical biphasic nature of DNA synthesis as determined by the 3H-thymidine incorporation test. The activity of thymidine kinase was shown to be equivalent to that of the DNA polymerase-α when the whole nuclear fraction or the nuclear matrix were used for examination. These results indicate that the transfected viral TK gene can be expressed under the normal cell-cycle regulation and its gene product can act as a component of the multienzyme complex which is responsible for DNA replication.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 141-147 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Cytotechnology |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1990 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- DNA polymerase-α
- L-M(TK)
- multienzyme complex
- nuclear matrix
- pHSV-106
- thymidine kinase
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Cell Biology