Cytoplasmic requirement for peroxisome biogenesis in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Allen, L A
RESUMO
Hybrids constructed by fusion of wild-type Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO-K1) to peroxisome-deficient CHO mutants (ZR-78.1) contain normal peroxisomes, demonstrating that the mutation(s) are recessive. "Nuclear hybrids" prepared by fusion of CHO-K1 karyoplasts to mutant ZR-78.1 occasionally fail to regain intact peroxisomes (approximately 1/300 cells). These peroxisome-deficient nuclear hybrids closely resemble the original mutant cells by biochemical criteria, but their modal chromosome number is 36-38, the same as that of CHO hybrids generated from intact cells. When the peroxisome-deficient nuclear hybrids are fused to wild-type cytoplasts, a fraction of the fusion products (at least 70%) continue to propagate normal peroxisomes indefinitely. Peroxisome biogenesis cannot be reinitiated in cells of mutant ZR-78.1 by fusion to wild-type cytoplasts. Our results suggest that a wild-type nucleus by itself is necessary but not sufficient for restoration of normal peroxisome biogenesis and that a cytoplasmic component of wild-type cells, possibly a normal peroxisome, is also required.
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