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Molecular analyses of in vivo hprt mutations in human T-lymphocytes. III. Longitudinal study of hprt gene structural alterations and T-cell clonal origins
Authors:Janice A Nicklas  Timothy C Hunter  J Patrick O'Neill and Richard J Albertini
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Genetics Laboratory, University of Vermont, 32 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401, U.S.A.

Abstract:The hprt clonal assay detects mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphpribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of human T-lymphocytes. Analysis of 94 wild-type and 326 hprt mutant clones from 3 normal males was performed using Southern blotting with hprt and T-cell receptor (TCR) gene probes. Gross structural alterations of the hprt gene occurred in not, vert, similar 14% of the in vivo derived mutants. Breakpoints were randomly distributed across the gene with one possible mutational “hot spot” observed. Most hprt mutants were independent as judge by TCR gene rearrangement patterns indicating that the measured hprt mutant frequency is a good measure of the actual hprt mutation frequency. However, sibling mutants (generally doublets and triplets except for one nonamer) were detected. Information on the timing in vivo of the hprt mutational events and the persistence in vivo of sibling mutants was also obtained.
Keywords:hprt  In vivo mutation  Human lymphocytes  Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransfearse gene
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