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A very large spontaneous deletion ataprt locus in CHO cells: Sequence similarities with smallaprt deletions

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Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics

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Spontaneous deletion mutants can be isolated from CHO cell lines heterozygous at the adenine phosphoribosyltransferase locus at frequencies up to 10−4, i.e., about 100-fold higher than spontaneous point mutations. Indirect evidence has suggested that most deletions were in the megabase range. We have fully characterized one such mutant, Del 155, and shown that it resulted from an illegitimate recombination that took place between overlapping tetranucleotides. Comparisons with sequences of other deletions at various loci revealed a number of similarities, most striking of which was a CHI-like motif found within 6 bp of the upstream breakpoint of Del 155 and breakpoints of 8/21 previously described short deletions at the CHO aprt locus. Homology also existed between the downstream breakpoint of Del 155 and breakpoints of retinoblastoma gene deletions (3/6 cases) and also a 20-bp stretch of an Alu sequence in which breakpoints at the low-density lipoprotein receptor locus have been shown to cluster. The magnitude of the deletion event in Del 155 was assessed by pulsed field (PF) gel analysis and found to be at least 2100 kb long. PF analysis also indicated that the downstream breakpoint was near a region of structural differences between the two chromosomes carrying aprt. These structural differences were probably not implicated in the mechanism of the high frequency event, since no indication of breakpoint clustering among a large collection of mutants was found either by conventional or PF electrophoretic analyses.

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Dewyse, P., Bradley, W.E.C. A very large spontaneous deletion ataprt locus in CHO cells: Sequence similarities with smallaprt deletions. Somat Cell Mol Genet 17, 57–68 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01233205

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