Human Artificial Chromosomes Generated by Modification of a Yeast Artificial Chromosome Containing Both Human Alpha Satellite and Single-copy DNA Sequences

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1999 Jan 20

PMID 9892678

Citations 39

Authors

K A Henning

E A Novotny

S T Compton

X Y Guan

P P Liu

M A Ashlock

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Abstract

A human artificial chromosome (HAC) vector was constructed from a 1-Mb yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) that was selected based on its size from among several YACs identified by screening a randomly chosen subset of the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) (Paris) YAC library with a degenerate alpha satellite probe. This YAC, which also included non-alpha satellite DNA, was modified to contain human telomeric DNA and a putative origin of replication from the human beta-globin locus. The resultant HAC vector was introduced into human cells by lipid-mediated DNA transfection, and HACs were identified that bound the active kinetochore protein CENP-E and were mitotically stable in the absence of selection for at least 100 generations. Microdissected HACs used as fluorescence in situ hybridization probes localized to the HAC itself and not to the arms of any endogenous human chromosomes, suggesting that the HAC was not formed by telomere fragmentation. Our ability to manipulate the HAC vector by recombinant genetic methods should allow us to further define the elements necessary for mammalian chromosome function.

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