Extrachromosomal recombination occurs efficiently in cells defective in various DNA repair systems - PubMed (original) (raw)

Extrachromosomal recombination occurs efficiently in cells defective in various DNA repair systems

C Morrison et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 1996.

Abstract

A series of different frameshift mutations of a firefly luciferase reporter plasmid was created so that no activity was obtained when they were transfected into mammalian cells. Co-transfection of these constructs with short fragments of the original sequence resulted in luciferase activity in different cell lines (A-549, NIH 3T3 and Jurkat). The level of this activity was dependent on the length of the fragment, regardless of cell line examined. Two different transfection techniques (lipofection and adenovirus-enhanced gene transfer) gave similar results. It was shown by polymerase chain reaction that expression of detectable luciferase required recombination of the transfected molecules. Cells with defined defects in DNA repair pathways were examined for their ability to perform this extrachromosomal recombination. Cells lacking normal Ku p80, (ADP-ribosyl)transferase, MLH1 or XP-C were all capable of restoring expression to the frameshifted constructs. Given the pivotal roles of the above molecules in the pathways of DNA repair, it seems that this recombination derives from a different activity.

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