## Abstract Variants of the Chinese hamster ovary cell line CHOβK1 (ATCC CCL 61) which grow almost normally at 38.5Β°C but very poorly or not at all at 30Β°C were obtained after treatment with mutagens and application of an indirect selection procedure. Two kinds of variants were recovered. In the fi
Isolation of cold-sensitive Chinese hamster cells
β Scribed by Farber, Rosann A. ;Unrau, Paul
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 619 KB
- Volume
- 138
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0026-8925
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β¦ Synopsis
Six cold-sensitive variants have been isolated from Chinese hamster ovary cells by the BUdR-visible light selection technique. The properties of one of these lines have been studied in detail. This line stops dividing immediately after a shift from 39 degrees C to 33 degrees C though its doubling time at 39 degrees C is only slightly longer than that of wild-type cells. The rates of DNA and protein synthesis are severely reduced at 33 degrees C, but the rate of RNA synthesis is not significantly different from wild-type cells. This line may be defective in protein synthesis, but the results of sedimentation analysis indicate that it probably has normal ribosomal subunit assembly.
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