| Literature DB >> 2874482 |
F W Tsui, I L Andrulis, H Murialdo, L Siminovitch.
Abstract
Histidinol-resistant (HisOHR) mutants with up to a 30-fold increase in histidyl-tRNA synthetase activity have been isolated by stepwise adaptation of wild-type Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells to increasing amounts of histidinol in the medium. Immunoprecipitation of [35S]methionine-labeled cell lysates with antibodies to histidyl-tRNA synthetase showed increased synthesis of the enzyme in histidinol-resistant cells. The histidinol-resistant cell lines had an increase in translatable polyadenylated mRNA for histidyl-tRNA synthetase. A cDNA for CHO histidyl-tRNA synthetase has been cloned, using these histidyl-tRNA synthetase-overproducing mutants as the source of mRNA. Southern blot analysis of wild-type and histidinol-resistant cells with this cDNA showed that the histidyl-tRNA synthetase DNA bands were amplified in the resistant cells. These HisOHR cells owed their resistance to histidinol to amplification of the gene for histidyl-tRNA synthetase.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID: 2874482 PMCID: PMC366965 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.5.9.2381-2388.1985
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell Biol ISSN: 0270-7306 Impact factor: 4.272