Construction of an EBV-derived shuttle vector for studying the influence of transcription on mutagenesis.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
F Palombo, E Dogliotti

Abstract

We have constructed an EBV-derived shuttle vector, pF1-EBV, which replicates in human cells as an extrachromosomal element. The structural sequences of the gene encoding the bacterial xanthine-guanine-phosphoribosyltransferase (gpt) were fused to the promoter and presumptive control region of the mouse metallothionein I (MT-I) gene. Human 293 cells transformed with the recombinant plasmid synthesized gpt mRNA and the expression of the gene was inducible by zinc. The gpt gene offers a convenient system of selection for mutant plasmids by transformation into the appropriate gpt- E. coli strain. A clonal cell line created by establishment of the pF1-EBV shuttle vector showed a spontaneous gpt- frequency of 2.10(-5). An increase in mutation frequency above background was induced by mutagenizing this cell line with the alkylating agent N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU). The recombinant molecule that we have constructed should provide a tool for studying the role of gene expression in DNA repair and mutagenesis.

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