RRC ID 39264
著者 Kodama S, Kashino G, Suzuki K, Takatsuji T, Okumura Y, Oshimura M, Watanabe M, Barrett JC.
タイトル Failure to complement abnormal phenotypes of simian virus 40-transformed Werner syndrome cells by introduction of a normal human chromosome 8.
ジャーナル Cancer Res
Abstract The Werner syndrome (WS) gene (WRN) was isolated by positional cloning, based on mapping to chromosome 8p12, and the WRN protein was recently shown to encode an active helicase. To examine functional complementation of WS phenotypes by expression of the WRN gene, we introduced a normal human chromosome 8 into a SV40-transformed WS fibroblastoid cell line (WS780) by microcell fusion and studied several cellular phenotypes associated previously with WS cell lines, including cell growth rate, 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4NQO) sensitivity, and spontaneous mutation rate and type of mutation at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase locus. The WRN gene was expressed in two of three microcell hybrids introduced with chromosome 8. We failed to observe a difference between normal and WS cell lines in terms of growth rates and spontaneous mutation rates. However, we found that the WS cell line was highly sensitive to 4NQO-induced cytotoxicity and showed an unusually high proportion of deletion mutations at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase locus as compared to a control cell line, as shown previously. Here, we report that these phenotypes were not corrected by introduction of the WRN gene, although the WRN protein was expressed. Our results suggest that the hypersensitivity to 4NQO and the extensive deletion mutations observed in the WS cell line are caused by a defect that is secondary to the WRN gene mutation, possibly a repair gene defect that controls the phenotypes of hypersensitivity to carcinogen(s) and/or the extensive deletion mutations.
巻・号 58(22)
ページ 5188-95
公開日 1998-11-15
PMID 9823331
MeSH 4-Nitroquinoline-1-oxide / pharmacology Animals Carcinogens / pharmacology Cell Fusion Cell Line, Transformed / drug effects Cell Transformation, Viral Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8 / genetics* Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 / genetics DNA Helicases / genetics* DNA Helicases / metabolism Exodeoxyribonucleases Gene Deletion Genetic Complementation Test / methods Humans Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase / genetics* Mice Microsatellite Repeats / genetics Mutation Phenotype Polymorphism, Genetic RecQ Helicases Simian virus 40 Werner Syndrome / genetics* Werner Syndrome / pathology Werner Syndrome Helicase
IF 9.727
引用数 21
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