期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1984
卷号:81
期号:18
页码:5676-5679
DOI:10.1073/pnas.81.18.5676
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:An assay has been developed in which excision repair deficiency of xeroderma pigmentosum cells is transiently complemented, as measured by unscheduled DNA synthesis, by microinjection of cytoplasmic poly(A)+ RNA derived from HeLa cells. Four different complementation groups of xeroderma pigmentosum have been assayed. Groups A and G showed complementation, whereas groups D and F did not. Survival for cells in each of the groups subsequent to microinjection was approximately equal to 75%. Approximately 10-25% of surviving cells from groups A and G were complemented, as judged by near-normal unscheduled DNA synthesis. Fractionation of cytoplasmic poly(A)+ RNA on a 15-30% nondenaturing sucrose gradient and subsequent microinjection of the individual fractions indicate that repair mRNAs that complement xeroderma pigmentosum groups A and G sediment at approximately 11 S and 12 S, respectively. This assay should be of great utility in the cloning and biochemical analysis of DNA repair genes.