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. 1984 Mar;81(6):1738-41.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.81.6.1738.

Albumin extinction without methylation of its gene

M O Ott, L Sperling, M C Weiss

Albumin extinction without methylation of its gene

M O Ott et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1984 Mar.

Abstract

In earlier work we identified at the 5' end of the rat albumin gene an Msp I site whose undermethylation appears to be necessary but not sufficient for stable expression of the gene in rat hepatoma cells. Here, we ask whether the block to expression of albumin production, which occurs when rat hepatoma cells are hybridized with cells that do not produce the protein, could be the result of de novo methylation of this site. In two types of somatic hybrids, rat hepatoma-mouse L cell fibroblasts, and rat hepatoma-dedifferentiated variant rat hepatoma cells, extinction occurs and is maintained during the first 5-15 generations after fusion. During this time the Msp I site of the now inactive rat albumin gene remained unmethylated.

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