Fig. 1. Cell lines obtained by transfection of an alphoid YAC constructs into
HT1080 cells. (A) Following transfection of
21-I alphoid YAC
(
7C5hTEL) DNA, the de novo assembly of functional centromeres was
observed coincident with MAC formation. MAC formation was not observed for
transfection with
21-II alphoid YAC (
B13hTEL). 7C5HT1-19 is a
subclone of a MAC-containing cell line (7C5HT1). (B) The structure and copy
number of the alphoid YAC in the 7C5HT1 and derivative cell lines were
determined by Southern blot analysis
(Ikeno et al., 1998;
Masumoto et al., 1998).