Azacytidine-induced reactivation of a DNA repair gene in Chinese hamster ovary cells - PubMed (original) (raw)
Azacytidine-induced reactivation of a DNA repair gene in Chinese hamster ovary cells
P A Jeggo et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1986 Aug.
Abstract
Six X-ray-sensitive (xrs) strains of the CHO-K1 cell line were shown to revert at a very high frequency after treatment with 5-azacytidine. This suggested that there was a methylated xrs+ gene in these strains which was structurally intact, but not expressed. The xrs strains did not complement one another, and the locus was autosomally located. In view of the frequency of their isolation and their somewhat different phenotypes, we propose that the xrs strains are mutants derived from an active wild-type gene. However, there is in addition a methylated silent gene present in the genome. Azacytidine treatment reactivated this gene. We present a model for the functional hemizygosity of mammalian cell lines, which is based on the inactivation of genes by de novo hypermethylation. In contrast to results with xrs strains, other repair-defective lines were found not to be reverted by azacytidine.
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