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. 1984 Aug;4(8):1597–1604. doi: 10.1128/mcb.4.8.1597

Isolation and characterization of revertants from four different classes of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase-deficient hepa-1 mutants.

J R Van Gurp, O Hankinson
PMCID: PMC368953  PMID: 6493230

Abstract

Revertants were selected from aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH)-deficient recessive mutants belonging to three complementation groups and from a dominant mutant of the Hepa-1 cell line. The recessive mutants had low spontaneous reversion frequencies (less than 4 X 10(-7] that were increased by mutagenesis. The majority of these revertants also had reacquired only partial AHH activity. Revertants of group A mutants were identical to the wild type with respect to both in vivo and in vitro enzyme stability and the Km for the substrate, benzo [alpha]pyrene, and therefore failed to provide evidence that gene A is the AHH structural gene. Group B and group C mutants are defective in the functioning of the Ah receptor required for AHH induction. Revertants of these groups were normal with respect to in vivo temperature sensitivity for AHH induction and for the 50% effective dose for the inducer, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, and thus provided no evidence that the B and C genes code for components of the receptor. Two rare group C revertants possessed AHH activity in the absence of induction. The phenotype of one of these was shown to be recessive to the wild type. Spontaneous revertants of the dominant mutant occurred at a frequency 300-fold greater than those of the recessive mutants, and this frequency was not increased by mutagenesis. These revertants all displayed complete restoration of AHH activity to wild type levels. These observations and the results from cell hybridization studies suggest that the dominant revertants arose by a high frequency event leading to functional elimination of the dominant mutation.

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