Human artificial chromosomes constructed using the bottom-up strategy are stably maintained in mitosis and efficiently transmissible to progeny mice

Nobutaka Suzuki, Kazuhiro Nishii, Tuneko Okazaki, Masashi Ikeno

研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) are alternative vectors that promise to overcome problematic transgene expression often occurring with conventional vectors in mammalian cells and bodies. We have successfully generated HACs by multimerization of a cloned long alphoid stretch in a human cell line, HT1080. Furthermore, we developed technologies for cloning large genomic regions into HACs by means of co-transfection of clones with the alphoid array and clones encoding the genomic region of interest. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mitotic and meiotic stability of such HACs in mouse cells and bodies. We transferred a circular HAC containing the guanosine triphosphate cyclohydolase I gene (GCH1-HAC) and a linear HAC containing the human globin gene cluster (globin-HAC) from HT1080 cells into mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells by microcell-mediated chromosome transfer. The HACs were stably maintained in mouse ES cells for 3 months. GCH1-HACs in every ES cell line and globin-HACs in most ES cell lines maintained their structures without detectable rearrangement or acquisition of mouse genomic DNA except one globin-HAC in an ES cell line rearranged and acquired mouse-type centromeric sequences and long telomeres. Creation of chimeric mice using ES cells containing HAC and subsequent crossing showed that both the globin-HACthat had rearranged and acquired mouse type centromeric sequences/long telomeres and GCH1-HACs were retained in tissues of mice and transmitted to progeny. These results indicate that human artificial chromosomes constructed using the bottom-up strategy based on alphoid DNA are stable in mouse bodies and are transmissible.

本文言語英語
ページ(範囲)26615-26623
ページ数9
ジャーナルJournal of Biological Chemistry
281
36
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 08-09-2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 生化学
  • 分子生物学
  • 細胞生物学

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