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. 1973 Jul;70(7):1998-2002.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.70.7.1998.

Restoration of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase activity in mouse 1R cells after fusion with chick-embryo fibroblasts

B Bakay, C M Croce, H Koprowski, W L Nyhan

Restoration of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase activity in mouse 1R cells after fusion with chick-embryo fibroblasts

B Bakay et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1973 Jul.

Abstract

Fusion of the 1R mouse cell, which lacks activity of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (EC 2.4.2.8), with chick-embryo fibroblasts yielded progeny cells that survived in hypoxanthine-aminopterin-thymidine selective medium. This property and the failure of the progeny to survive in 8-azaguanine indicated that hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase activity was present. Electrophoretic analysis revealed that the enzyme was of mouse, not chick, origin. These observations are consistent with the operation of a regulator gene responsible for the absence of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl-transferase activity in the 1R cell and its presence in the progeny.

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