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We have previously reported the establishment and characterization of B cell lines from patients and family members with various types of adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT) deficiencies. These cell lines contain, at the APRT locus, three different alleles (APRT * 1, APRT * Q0, and APRT * J) that are clearly distinguishable from each other. From five genetically heterozygous cell lines with two different genotypes (APRT * 1/APRTQ0 and APRT * 1/APRT * J), we have selected 48 clones resistant to 2,6-diaminopurine. Resistance to this adenine analogue is a characteristic of cells having defects in both of the APRT alleles in individual cells. The mutant clones from a cell line from a complete-type heterozygote had APRT activities close to zero (mean=0.04 nmol/min per milligram protein) in the cell extracts, while 15 clones from four cell lines from the four Japanese-type heterozygotes had significant enzyme activities (mean=3.88 nmol/min per milligram protein). Kinetic studies on two of the mutants from two Japancse-type heterozygous cell lines have shown that affinity to substrate 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate was reduced, indicating that APRT in those clones reflected the characteristics of the Japanese-type enzyme. The data presented here indicate that clones we obtained are genetic/artificial mutants, each having a genetic mutation in a single allele (APRT * J or APRT * Q0) and an artificially produced mutation in the other previously functional allele (APRT *1). The present procedure provided the only diagnostic method for Japanese-type APRT heterozygotes (APRT * 1/APRT * J).
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Kamatani, N., Kuroshima, S., Terai, C. et al. Selection of human cells having two different types of mutations in individual cells (genetic/artificial mutants). Hum Genet 76, 148–152 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00284912
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