A novel temperature-sensitive mammalian cell line exhibiting defective prophase progression |
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Authors: | Richard J. Wang |
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Affiliation: | Dalton Research Center and the Division of Biological Sciences University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65201 USA |
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Abstract: | A temperature-sensitive mammalian cell line has been isolated which grows and divides normally at the permissive temperature of 33°C. When incubated at 39°C, the nonpermissive temperature, interphase cells continue to enter a prophase-like state. Chromatin-like material condenses and coalesces into dark-staining clumps rather than into discernible chromosomes. Disappearance of the nuclear boundary is observed, but re-formation of the boundary around the clumps fails to occur. Incorporation of labeled precursors reveals a decrease in protein synthesis which is accompanied by a slower decrease in DNA synthesis. Approximately 0.2% of the mutant cells revert in their capability of growth and cell division at 39°C. These “revertants” are found to contain a higher number of chromosomes. The isolation of this mutant is based on the initial observation that the cells become rounded at the nonpermissive temperature. The cell-rounding process characteristic of mitotic cells should serve as a useful marker in the isolation of mitotic mutants. |
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