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- Title
Efficient conditional mutation of the vertebrate CENP-C gene.
- Authors
Fukagawa, T; Brown, W R
- Abstract
We have used gene targeting in the DT40 cell line to create a cell line which expresses a fusion between CENP-C and a mouse steroid receptor and which behaves as a conditional loss of function mutant of CENP-C. Under restrictive conditions these cells arrest at the metaphase/anaphase junction and after a delay of approximately 2.5 h die by apoptosis. These results indicate that CENP-C is either necessary for anaphase chromosome movement or for mediating a signal which triggers centromere function during anaphase. Our approach is simple and applicable to a wide range of proteins with general cell autonomous functions in vertebrates.
- Publication
Human molecular genetics, 1997, Vol 6, Issue 13, p2301
- ISSN
0964-6906
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/hmg/6.13.2301