Techniques in Somatic Cell Genetics by John Morrow (auth.), Jerry W. Shay (eds.)

By John Morrow (auth.), Jerry W. Shay (eds.)

Somatic mobile genetics is an exhilarating and quickly increasing box of study. due to the fact descriptions of the foremost experimental ideas within the box are scattered all through a number of journals and different guides, there's a genuine desire for a unmarried reference resource for either proven investigators and scholars within the box. moreover, technical stories are often abridged such that many researchers are discouraged from trying to undertake the proper technique. This booklet, accordingly, describes intimately the various contemporary technical advances in such parts of somatic mobilephone genetics as move mediated via liposomes, erythrocyte ghosts, chromosomes, micro cells, mito­ chondria, and remoted nuclear DNA. those suggestions have elevated our realizing of the association and legislation of eukaryotic cells. The creation of antibiotic-resistant cellphone traces and their use in learning cytoplasmic inheritance also are integrated. proof for the cytoplasmic law of nuclear gene expression in eukaryotic cells is speedily accumu­ lating following the characterization of cytoplasmic mutations. The produc­ tion of nuclear-coded mutations, their use in general mobile hybridization, and up to date advances in ideas for fusing entire cells or mobilephone elements also are described.

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After 4 weeks, five colonies were detected in the flask with 4 mM ouabain. These colonies were isolated and then grown in ouabain-free medium, and after sufficient numbers of cells were grown, the plating efficiencies of these clones were obtained. The clones isolated in ouabain were found to be stably resistant, and were preserved for further investigations. References Bradley. W. E. , 1979, Reversible inactivation of autosomal alleles in Chinese hamster cells, Cell. Physiol. 101:325-340. J. 8 Chapter 1 Chasin.

And Mintz. • 1980. Introduction of a viral thymidine kinase gene and the human ,a-globin gene into developmentally multi potential mouse teratocarcinoma cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77:2098-2102. Perucho. • Hanahan. D .. Lipsich. 1.. and Wigler. • 1980. Isolation of the chicken thymidine kinase gene by plasmid rescue. Nature 285:207-210. Pontecorvo. • 1975. Production of mammalian somatic cell hybrids by means of polyethylene glycol treatment. Somat. Cell Genet. 1:397-400. Rabinovitch. P. • and Norwood.

11 12 Chapter 2 1981; Rabinovitch and Norwood, 1981). PEG fusion is described in detail in Chapter 3, Mercer and Baserga, and Chapter 4, Norwood and Ziegler, this volume. Other membrane-active, PEG-related derivatives were also found recently to enhance cell fusion (Klebe and Mancuso, 1981). 1. Selective Systems in Somatic Cell Genetics A number of selection techniques based on variations of cell morphology, growth characteristics, and genetic markers have been described which screen for "mutants," or "variants," in somatic cells (Clements, 1975; Chu and Powell, 1976; Siminovitch, 1976).

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