HIGH-RESOLUTION IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE DIRECT VISUALIZATION OF LABELED G-BANDED EARLY METAPHASE AND PROPHASE CHROMOSOMES
HIGH-RESOLUTION IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE DIRECT VISUALIZATION OF LABELED G-BANDED EARLY METAPHASE AND PROPHASE CHROMOSOMES
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DOI:
10.1159/000130970
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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YUNIS, JJ
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CHANDLER, ME;YUNIS, JJ
An improved technique for in situ hybridization now makes possible the direct visualization of both the radioactively labeled nucleic acid probe and sharply banded and elongated early metaphase and prophase chromo somes of human lymphocytes. Whereas previous mammalian in situ hybridization studies have been carried out with unbanded metaphase chromosomes exhibiting relatively poor morphology, or relied on the comparison of photographs of chromosomes banded before hybridization and restained after autoradiography,’-3 this technique is simpler and results in greatly improved accuracy in the refined localization of specific base sequences to chromosomes. Of particular importance are: synchroni zation of cultured lymphocytes with 10-7 M amethopterin and a 10-to 15-min exposure to a low level of Colcemid (0.06¿¿ g/ml) to obtain high numbers of early mitotic cells’-3; DNA denaturation with 0.2N hydro chloric acid at room temperature for 20 min0 or 70% formamide in 2 X SSC at 70 C for 2 min, followed by rapid dehydration in ethanol, which allow sufficient preservation of chromosome structure; hybridization with 125I-labeled RNA in 50% formamide in 2 X SSC at 37 C for 2-9 h to minimize RNA and chromosome degradation7; and a direct G-banding method utilizing 0.25/o Wright stain diluted 1: 3 with 0.06 M phosphate buffer, 4 which elicits a combined G-and C-banding pattern in post hybridization chromosomes.