Sato K, Slesinski R S, Littlefield J W
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1972 May;69(5):1244-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.69.5.1244.
The presence of selectable genetic markers in long-term human lymphoblast cultures would facilitate cell hybridization experiments on the biosynthesis of immunoglobulins, as well as other studies. This work reports the induction with ethylmethane sulfonate of 6-thioguanine - resistant, phosphoribosyltransferase - deficient mutants in a lymphoblast line from a patient with infectious mononucleosis. These cells were unusually sensitive, with a D(0) value of 28 mug of ethylmethane sulfonate per ml; the sensitivity curve followed a biphasic pattern suggesting the presence of 3% resistant cells. Ethylmethane sulfonate increased the frequency of mutants resistant to 6-thioguanine over 100-fold, to about 2 x 10(-4); nitrosoguanidine was less effective. Almost all the mutants contained considerably less than 1% of the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.8) activity of wild-type cells. The mutation did not appear to result from loss of an X chromosome.
在长期培养的人淋巴母细胞中存在可选择的遗传标记,将有助于进行关于免疫球蛋白生物合成的细胞杂交实验以及其他研究。本文报道了用甲磺酸乙酯诱导来自一名传染性单核细胞增多症患者的淋巴母细胞系中对6-硫鸟嘌呤耐药、磷酸核糖基转移酶缺陷的突变体。这些细胞异常敏感,甲磺酸乙酯的D(0)值为每毫升28微克;敏感性曲线呈双相模式,表明存在3%的耐药细胞。甲磺酸乙酯使对6-硫鸟嘌呤耐药的突变体频率增加了100多倍,达到约2×10⁻⁴;亚硝基胍的效果较差。几乎所有突变体所含的次黄嘌呤-鸟嘌呤磷酸核糖基转移酶(EC 2.4.2.8)活性都大大低于野生型细胞的1%。该突变似乎不是由X染色体缺失导致的。