Abstract
Unstable variants with increasing amounts of adenylate-deaminase (AMPD) have been stepwise recovered from Chinese hamster fibroblasts plated in selective medium containing increasing coformycin concentrations; several polypeptides accumulate in the variants in parallel to AMPD: they are no longer detectable in cells which reverted to the wild-type enzyme level. We report here the molecular cloning of cDNA sequences complementary to mRNAs coding for four such polypeptides. The plasmidic probes have been exploited to characterize their complementary mRNAs and to quantify the copies of these cognate genes in a variant and in two revertant clones. The results show that different mRNAs code for the four polypeptides; their accumulation is accounted for by amplification of their specific genes; these observations suggest that cells overproducing AMPD are characterized by the presence of amplification units comprising several expressed genes.
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