Regional localization of the gene for human phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase on the X chromosome

Science. 1979 Mar 9;203(4384):1016-9. doi: 10.1126/science.218284.

Abstract

Sixty-eight independent hybrid clones were isolated after irradiated normal human lymphocytes were fused with Chinese hamster fibroblasts lacking hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase activity. The cells were grown under selective conditions requiring retention of the X chromosome-linked locus for human hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase. The frequency and patterns of cotransference of human phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase with the selected marker and with additional X-linked enzymatic markers confirm X linkage of the structural gene for human phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase and support assignment of this gene to a position on the long arm of the X, between the loci for alpha-galactosidase and hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Female
  • Genetic Linkage
  • Humans
  • Hybrid Cells
  • Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase / genetics
  • Phosphotransferases / genetics*
  • Ribose-Phosphate Pyrophosphokinase / genetics*
  • Sex Chromosomes*
  • X Chromosome*

Substances

  • Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
  • Phosphotransferases
  • Ribose-Phosphate Pyrophosphokinase