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In a selection procedure designed to enrich for temperature-sensitive mutant cells blocked in mitosis a CHO-cell mutant was isolated which has a defect in cytokinesis as the basis of its temperature-sensitive phenotype. Cultures of the mutant had an abnormally high percentage (ie, 34%) of polyploid cells at the permissive temperature of 34°C and showed further increased frequencies of polyploidy as well as many multinucleated cells at 38.5° and 39.5°. When the mutant cells were synchronized in metaphase by Colcemid arrest and then placed into fresh medium at nonpermissive temperature, they did not divide although the completion of mitosis appeared cytologically normal. Ultrastructural examination by electron microscopy of such synchronized cells at telophase revealed no specific defects in cellular components other than failure of development of a normal midbody. The sensitivity of the mutant to cytochalasin B and to Colcemid was the same as for wild-type cells. This mutation behaved as recessive in tetraploid cell hybrids constructed by fusing the mutant with a CHO strain which was wild-type with respect to temperature sensitivity.
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Thompson, L.H., Lindl, P.A. A CHO-cell mutant with a defect in cytokinesis. Somat Cell Mol Genet 2, 387–400 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542720
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