HUMAN CHROMOSOME-5 COMPLEMENTS THE DNA DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK-REPAIR DEFICIENCY AND GAMMA-RAY SENSITIVITY OF THE XR-1 HAMSTER VARIANT
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 47 (3) , 459-469
Abstract
XR-1 is a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell mutant which is unusually sensitive to killing by gamma rays in the G1 portion of the cell cycle but has nearly normal resistance to gamma-ray damage in late S phase. This cell-cycle sensitivity correlates with the mutant''s inability to repair DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) produced by ionizing radiation and restriction enzymes. We have previously shown in somatic cell hybrids of XR-1 cells and human fibroblasts that the XR-1 mutation is a recessive mutation. In this study, using somatic cell hybrids formed between XR-1 and human fibroblasts, we map the human complementing gene to chromosome 5 by chromosome-segregation analysis. This gene biochemically restores the hamster defect to wild-type levels of gamma-ray and bleomycin resistance as well as restoring its proficiency to repair DNA, DSBs, suggesting that a single gene is responsible for the XR-1 phenotype. We have tentatively assigned the name XRCC4 (X-ray-complementing Chinese hamster gene 4) to this human gene until its biochemical function in repair is discovered.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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