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. 1999 Dec;19(12):8353–8360. doi: 10.1128/mcb.19.12.8353

TABLE 1.

Repair of a genomic DSB in the absence or presence of a homologous donor

Donor and cell linea Electroporationb
Total no. of HAT-resistant colonies Frequency of HAT-resistant colonies (10−5)c
Construct used No.
No donor
 Sce-3 I-SceI 42 157 0.03
pCMV-I-SceI 10 650 0.65
Mock 13 0 0
360-bp donor
 360-1 pCMV-I-SceI 20 2,600 2.6
Mock 5 0 0
 360-2 pCMV-I-SceI 20 2,000 2.0
Mock 5 0 0
2-kb donor
 26-1 pCMV-I-SceI 5 673 2.7
Mock 5 101 0.4
 26-2 pCMV-I-SceI 8 1,156 2.9
Mock 8 58 0.14
a

Cell line Sce-3 contains an integrated copy of pTKSce (Fig. 1B), cell lines 360-1 and 360-2 each contain an integrated copy of pTKSce-360 (Fig. 1B), and cell lines 26-1 and 26-2 each contain an integrated copy of pTKSce-26 (Fig. 1B). 

b

Cell line Sce-3 was electroporated with 150 U of I-SceI endonuclease or 5 μg of pCMV-I-SceI per electroporation. Other cell lines were electroporated with 10 μg of pCMV-I-SceI per electroporation. Mock electroporations were with PBS alone. 

c

Total number of HAT-resistant colonies recovered divided by total number of cells electroporated.