Table 1. Sequence profiles of TaqI-RE-digestion-resistant mutant SDHB clones.
Nucleic acid source (n = number of samples) | Nucleic acid type/PCR method | No. of clones TTGA R46X | No. of clones TCGG | No. of clones TCAA | No. of clones CCGA | No. of clones ACGA | No. of clones TAGA | No. of clones TCGT | Single clones | Total no. of clones | P for enrichment of TTGA clones& |
PBMC (n = 6) | cDNA/RT-PCR | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | TTGG | 93 | ∼0 |
Pure Monocytes (n = 1) | cDNA/RT-PCR | 32 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | TGGA | 37 | ∼0 |
T-ALL primary (n = 3) | cDNA/RT-PCR | 75 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | TGGA | 98 | ∼0 |
T-ALL cell lines* | cDNA/RT-ePCR | 27 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ATAG | 54 | 2.2×10−4 |
NK-92 (NK cell) | cDNA/RT-ePCR | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0.33 |
Pfeiffer (B cell) | cDNA/RT-ePCR | 2 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0.33 |
THP-1 (Monocyte) | cDNA/RT-ePCR | 9 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | TCACTCTA | 56 | 0.60 |
PBMC (n = 3) | gDNA/ePCR | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | TGGA | 30 | ∼0 |
T-ALL cell linesˆ | gDNA/ePCR | 43 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | TCTA | 54 | ∼0 |
Includes Jurkat, Loucy, SUP-T1, HuT 78.
Includes MOLT-4 and Jurkat.
Fisher's exact test of the hypotheses that number of TTGA clones should be ∼16% of the total on the basis of random somatic mutation data [15].