Chromosome-wide event accompanies the expression of recessive mutations in tetraploid cells

Science. 1975 Mar 21;187(4181):1091-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1167702.

Abstract

Mutants resistant to 6-thioguanine were induced in pseudotetraploid hybrid Chinese hamster cells homozygous wild-type at the locus for hypoxanthine phophoribosyl transferase but heterozygous for the linked marker glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. About half of these mutants had concomitantly lost the wild-type allele for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, as expected if mutation plus chromosome segregation had occurred.

MeSH terms

  • Alleles
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Chromosomes*
  • Cricetinae
  • Drug Resistance
  • Female
  • Genes, Recessive*
  • Genetic Linkage
  • Genotype
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / biosynthesis
  • Hybrid Cells
  • Hypoxanthines
  • Meiosis
  • Mutation*
  • Ovary
  • Pentosyltransferases / biosynthesis
  • Phenotype
  • Polyploidy*
  • Thioguanine

Substances

  • Hypoxanthines
  • Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
  • Pentosyltransferases
  • Thioguanine