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Loss of heterozygosity in mammalian cell mntagenesis: molecular analysis of spontaneous mutations at the aprt locus in CHO cells

Michael A. Ward, Marion Yu 1, W. Glickman 1 and Andrew J. Grosovsky 2 3

Department of Medical Genetics, Umversity of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
1Deparment of Biology, York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
2Environmental Toxicology Program, University of California Riverside, CA 92521, USA

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Loss of heterozygosity at previously heterozygous loci may occur by one of several possible mechanisms and account for a large fraction of all mutations occurring at such loci. In order to investigate loss of heterozygosity events, we have chosen the aprt locus of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells as our model since it is readily available in either heterozygous or hemizygous form. Cloning and sequencing of the two heterozygous aprt alleles from the CHO derivative D423 identified a single polymorphic site, which does not create a restriction fragment length polymorphism. In order to evaluate the loss of heterozygosity events at this locus, we devised a method that creates an artificial restriction fragment length polymorphism in one of these two alleles as a direct consequence of enzymatic amplification. Restriction enzyme digestion of the amplified sequences can then conveniently identify the genotype of the DNA sample. Thissame methodology also provides for the selective cloning of only one allele of a heterozygous pair into a plasmid vector for subsequent DNA sequence analysis, and can be easily adapted to other situations requiring the analysis of single base changes at a particular position within known sequences. Using this technique, we have determined that 16/37(43%) spontaneous APRT- mutants had undergone a loss of heterozygosity event.


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