Mol Cell Biol 7(4): 1409-1414
Gene recombination in X-ray-sensitive hamster cells.
Abstract
Recombination was measured in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells and in the X-ray-sensitive mutants xrs1 and xrs7, which show a defect in DNA double-strand break repair. To assay recombination, pairs of derivatives of the plasmid pSV2gpt were constructed with nonoverlapping deletions in the gpt gene region and cotransferred into the different cell types. Recombination efficiencies, measured as the transformation frequency with a pair of deletion plasmids relative to that with the complete pSV2gpt plasmid, were about 6% in both CHO-K1 and the xrs mutants for plasmids linearized at a site outside the gpt gene. However, these efficiencies were substantially enhanced by the introduction of a double-strand break into the homologous region of the gpt gene in one of a pair of deletion plasmids before cotransfer. This enhancement was apparently only about half as great for the xrs cells as for CHO-K1, but variation in the data was considerable. A much larger difference between CHO-K1 and the xrs mutants was found when the DNA concentration dependence of transformation was explored. While the transformation frequency of CHO-K1 increased linearly with DNA concentration, no such increase occurred with the xrs mutants irrespective of whether complete plasmids or pairs of deletion plasmids were transferred. The fraction of cells taking up DNA, assayed autoradiographically, was similar in all cell types. Therefore we suggest that while homologous recombination of plasmid molecules may not be substantially reduced in the xrs mutants,processes involved in the stable integration of plasmid DNA into genomic DNA are significantly impaired.
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