Intrachromosomal telomeric repeats and stabilization of truncated chromosomes in V79 chinese hamster cells

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 397, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-233

  Simi, Silvana ^a   Attolini, Carmen ^b   Giulotto, Elena ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromosome breakage; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Interstitial telomeric repeat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METAPHASE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 0032472891     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(97)00217-0     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Blackburn E.H. Structure and function of telomeres. Nature. 350:1991;569-573.
2. Meyne J., Baker R.J., Hobart H.H., Hsu T.C., Ryder O.A., Ward O.G., Wiley J.E., Wuster-Hill D., Yates T.L., Moyzis R.K. Distribution of non-telomeric sites of the (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequence in vertebrate chromosomes. Chromosoma. 99:1990;3-10.
3. Slijepcevic P., Xiao Y., Dominguez I., Natarajan A.T. Spontaneous and radiation-induced chromosomal breakage at interstitial telomeric sites. Chromosoma. 104:1996;596-604.
4. Bertoni L., Attolini C., Faravelli M., Simi S., Giulotto E. Intrachromosomal telomere-like DNA sequences in Chinese hamster. Mammal. Genome. 7:1996;853-855.
5. Hastie N.D., Allshire R.C. Human telomeres: fusion and interstitial sites. Trends Genet. 5:1989;326-331.
6. Colella C.M., Simi S., Rainaldi G., van Boxel T., Della Valle G., Peverali A.F., Talarico D., Mariani T., Piras A., Simili M. Gene dosage mutants et Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase locus induced by colcemid in Chinese hamster V79-AP4 cells. Somat. Cell Mol. Genet. 14:1988;593-604.
7. Swierenga S.H.H., Heddle J.A., Sigal F.A., Gilman J.P.W., Brillinger R.L., Douglas G.R., Nestmann E.R. Recommended protocol based on a survey of current practice in genotoxicity testing laboratories. IV. Chromosome aberration and sister chromatid exchange in Chinese hamster ovary, V79 Chinese hamster lung and human lymphocyte cultures Mutation Res. 246:1991;301-322.
8. Thacker J. The chromosomes of a V79 Chinese hamster line and a mutant subline lacking HPRT activity. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 29:1981;16-25.
9. Simi S., Colella C.M., Mariani T., Piras A., Rainaldi G. Qualitative analysis of chromosomal evolution in a colcemid-treated Chinese hamster population. Teratogen. Carcinogen. Mutagen. 8:1988;45-58.
10. Worton R.G., Ho C.C., Duff C. Chromosome stability in CHO cells. Somat. Cell Genet. 3:1977;27-45.
11. Bertoni L., Attolini C., Simi S., Giulotto E. Localization of the Chinese hamster CAD gene reveals homology between human chromosome 2p and Chinese hamster 7q. Genomics. 16:1993;779-781.
12. Simi S., Vatteroni L., Piras A., Mariani T., Rainaldi G. Folate-sensitive fragile sites in Chinese hamster cell lines. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 46:1990;209-216.
13. Slijepcevic P., Bryant P.E. Absence of terminal telomeric FISH signals in Chromosome from immortal Chinese hamster cells. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 69:1995;87-89.
14. Balajee A.S., Oh H.J., Natarajan A.T. Analysis of restriction enzyme-induced chromosome aberrations in the interstitial telomeric repeat sequences of CHO and CHE cells by FISH. Mutation Res. 307:1994;307-313.
15. Alvarez L., Evans J.W., Wilks R., Lucas R., Brown J.M., Giaccia A.J. Chromosomal radiosensitivity at intra-chromosomal telomeric sites. Genes Chrom. Cancer. 8:1993;8-14.
16. Pandita T.K., DeRubeis D. Spontaneous amplification of interstitial telomeric bands in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 68(95):1995;101.
17. Bertoni L., Attolini C., Tessera L., Mucciolo E., Giulotto E. Telomeric and nontelomeric (TTAGGG)n sequences in gene amplification and chromosome stability. Genomics. 24:1994;53-62.
18. Lin M.S., Takabayashi T., Wilson M.G., Marchese G.A. An in vivo and in vitro study of a BrdU-sensitive fragile site in the Chinese hamster. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 38:1984;211-215.
19. Glover T.W., Stein A.A. Chromosome breakage and recombination at fragile sites. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 43:1988;265-273.
20. Simi S., Musio M., Vatteroni L., Piras A., Rainaldi G. Specific chromosomal aberrations correlated to transformation in Chinese hamster cells. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 62:1992;81-87.
21. Furuya T., Morgan R., Berger C.S., Sandberg A.A. Presence of telomeric sequences on deleted chromosomes and their absence on double minutes in cell line HL-60. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 70:1993;132-135.
22. Ray M., Mohandas T. Proposed banding nomenclature for the Chinese hamster chromosomes (Cricetulus griseus). Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 16:1976;83-91.