Cycling-PRINS. A method to improve the accuracy of telomeric sequence detection in mammalian chromosomes

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 390, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-4

  Musio, Antonio ^a   Rainaldi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chinese hamster cell; Cycling PRINS; Single PRINS; Telomeric sequence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 1; DNA SEQUENCE; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030956781     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1218(96)00132-2     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. n, present at the telomeres of human chromosomes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 85, 6622-6626.
2. Therkelsen, A.J., A. Nielsen, J. Koch, J. Hindkjær and S. Kølvraa (1995) Staining of human telomeres with primed in situ labeling (PRINS), Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 68, 115-118.
3. Pellestor, F., A. Girardet, G. Lefort, B. Andréo and J.P. Charlieu (1995) Use of the primed in situ labelling (PRINS) technique for a rapid detection of chromosomes 13, 16, 18, 21, X and Y, Hum. Genet., 95, 12-17.
4. Speel, E.J.M., D. Lawson, A.H.N. Hopman and J. Gosden (1995) Multi-PRINS: multiple sequential oligonucleotide primed in situ DNA synthesis reactions label specific chromosomes and produce bands, Hum. Genet., 95, 29-33.
5. Hastie, N.D. and R.C. Allshire (1989) Human telomeres: fusion and interstitial sites, Trend Genet., 5, 326-331.
6. Farr, C., J. Fantes, P. Goodfellow and H. Cooke (1991) Functional reintroduction of human telomeres into mammalian cells, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 88, 7006-7010.
7. Hecht, F. and B.K. Hecht (1991) The telomere in cancer. All's not well that doesn't end well, Cancer Genet. Cytogenet., 54, 245-246.
8. Meltzer, P.S., X-Y. Guan and J.M. Trent (1993) Telomere capture stabilizes chromosomes breakage, Nature Genet., 4, 252-255.
9. Balajee, A.S., H.J. Oh and A.T. Natarajan (1994) Analysis of restriction enzyme-induced chromosome aberrations in the interstitial telomeric repeat sequences of CHO and CHE cells by FISH, Mutation Res., 307, 307-313.
10. Slijepcevic, P. and P.E. Bryant (1995) Absence of terminal telomeric FISH signals in chromosomes from immortal Chinese hamster cells, Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 69, 87-89.
11. n in Chinese hamster cells, Cytogenet. Cell Genet., in press.
12. Gosden, J. and D. Lawson (1994) Rapid chromosome identification by oligonucleotide-primed in situ DNA synthesis (PRINS), Hum. Mol. Genet., 3, 931-936.
13. Simi, S., A. Musio, L. Vatteroni, A. Piras and G. Rainaldi (1992) Specific chromosomal aberrations correlated to transformation in Chinese hamster cells, Cancer Genet. Cytogenet., 62, 81-87.
14. Bianchi, M.S., N.O. Bianchi, G.E. Pantelias and S. Wolff (1985) The mechanism and pattern of banding induced by restriction endonucleases in human chromosomes, Chromosoma, 91, 131-136.
15. n telomeric sequence in vertebrate chromosomes, Chromosoma, 99, 3-10.
16. Counter, C.M., A.A. Avilion, C.E. LeFeuvre, N.G. Stewart, C.W. Greider, C.B. Harley and S. Bacchetti (1992) Telomere shortening associated with chromosome instability is arrested in immortal cells which express telomerase activity, EMBO J., 11, 1921-1929.