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Cells of the mutant Chinese hamster strain RJK10 do not contain either hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase activity (HGPRT) or protein that cross-reacts immunologically with HGPRT. HGPRT+ revertants have been isolated from RJK10 and those strains produce HGPRT with altered antigenic properties. HGPRT from the revertant cells is less reactive with anti-HGPRT serum than enzyme from the wild-type cells, and enzymes from the two sources are immunoprecipitated independently from mixtures of cell extracts. Thus one or more of the antigenic determinants present on Chinese hamster HGPRT are either missing or present in an altered form on HGPRT from revertants of RJK10. This indicates that RJK10 carries a mutation in the structural gene for HGPRT and that secondary mutations in the gene give rise to the revertants that produce the antigenically altered enzymes.
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Fenwick, R.G., Wasmuth, J.J. & Caskey, C.T. Mutations affecting the antigenic properties of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase in cultured Chinese hamster cells. Somat Cell Mol Genet 3, 207–216 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01551815
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