Mitotic segregation of cytoplasmic determinants for chloramphenicol resistance in mammalian cells I: Fusions with mouse cell lines |
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Authors: | C. L. Bunn D. C. Wallace J. M. Eisenstadt |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Human Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 06510 New Haven, Connecticut |
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Abstract: | The segregation of cytoplasmically inherited chloramphenicol (CAP) resistance in mouse cells was investigated in fusions between CAP-resistant cells or cytoplasts (enucleated cells) and CAP-sensitive cells of varying tissue origin. All hybrids formed in cell-cell fusions were initially CAP-resistant, indicating that CAP resistance is dominant. Hybrids from fusions of cells of the same tissue origin (homologous) were stably CAP-resistant, whereas the hybrid population from fusions of different origins (heterologous) showed a rapid diminution of average CAP resistance. Individual hybrid clones from these heterologous fusions also showed an overall loss of CAP resistance, and a wide variation in CAP resistance which is consistent with a large number of genetic determinants (possibly mitochondrial DNA molecules) contributing to the CAP phenotype. Similar results were obtained from cytoplast-cell fusions, so the observed CAP segregation is not the result of nuclear-nuclear interactions. This segregation of CAP resistance constitutes a second criterion of cytoplasmic inheritance in mammalian cells. |
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