Chapter title |
Generation of Peroxisome-Deficient Somatic Animal Cell Mutants
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Chapter number | 29 |
Book title |
Peroxisomes
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6937-1_29 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6935-7, 978-1-4939-6937-1
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Authors |
Kanji Okumoto, Yukio Fujiki |
Editors |
Michael Schrader |
Abstract |
Cell mutants with a genetic defect affecting various cellular phenotypes are widely utilized as a powerful tool in genetic, biochemical, and cell biological research. More than a dozen complementation groups of animal somatic mutant cells defective in peroxisome biogenesis have been successfully isolated in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells and used as a model system reflecting fatal human severe genetic disorders named peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBD). Isolation and characterization of peroxisome-deficient CHO cell mutants has allowed the identification of PEX genes and the gene products peroxins, which directly leads to the accomplishment of isolation of pathogenic genes responsible for human PBDs, as well as elucidation of their functional roles in peroxisome biogenesis. Here, we describe the procedure to isolate peroxisome-deficient mammalian cell mutants from CHO cells, by making use of an effective, photo-sensitized selection method. |
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