Molecular Dissection of an Extrachromosomal Amplicon Reveals a Circular Structure Consisting of an Imperfect Inverted Duplication
| Autor: | S M Carroll, M L DeRose, Geoffrey M. Wahl, Genevieve H. Nonet |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Yeast artificial chromosome
Genetics Genomic Library Contig Adenosine Deaminase Genome Human Extrachromosomal Inheritance Gene Amplification Locus (genetics) Molecular cloning Amplicon Biology Cosmids Cell Line Mice Multigene Family Extrachromosomal DNA Chromosome Inversion Gene duplication Cosmid Animals Humans Chromosomes Fungal Repetitive Sequences Nucleic Acid |
| Zdroj: | Genomics. 15:543-558 |
| ISSN: | 0888-7543 |
| DOI: | 10.1006/geno.1993.1107 |
| Popis: | A mouse fibroblast line, B-1/50, with a 4300-fold amplification of the adenosine deaminase gene locus (Yeung et al ., 1983, J. Biol. Chem. 258: 8338-8345), was shown by in situ hybridization to harbor the amplified sequences on variously sized extrachromosomal elements. We show here that the smallest circle is approximately 500 kb. We describe a facile screening technique for identifying cosmid and yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones derived from the amplicon. A closed molecular map was generated by arranging the cosmids and YACs into a contig spanning over 250 kb of the adenosine deaminase gene locus. YACs from the two ends of this contig were shown to delimit a 250-kb inverted duplication. Long-range mapping of a Sal I partial digest of B-1/50 DNA is also consistent with the interpretation that the 500-kb adenosine deaminase amplicon in B-1/50 cells is an inverted duplication. The finding that this amplicon is the only or predominant structure containing amplified sequences in the B-1/50 cell line suggests that such structures are not inherently prone to high frequency rearrangement, even when present at such high copy number. This study provides the first molecular description of the structure of an episome involved in mammalian gene amplification. The implications of this finding for models of gene amplification and episome formation are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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