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Development, Vol 116, Issue 3 687-695, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

An X-linked human collagen transgene escapes X inactivation in a subset of cells

H Wu, R Fassler, A Schnieke, D Barker, KH Lee, V Chapman, U Francke and R Jaenisch
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, MA 02142.

Transgenic mice carrying one complete copy of the human alpha 1(I) collagen gene on the X chromosome (HucII mice) were used to study the effect of X inactivation on transgene expression. By chromosomal in situ hybridization, the transgene was mapped to the D/E region close to the Xce locus, which is the controlling element. Quantitative RNA analyses indicated that transgene expression in homozygous and heterozygous females was about 125% and 62%, respectively, of the level found in hemizygous males. Also, females with Searle's translocation carrying the transgene on the inactive X chromosome (Xi) expressed about 18% transgene RNA when compared to hemizygous males. These results were consistent with the transgene being subject to but partially escaping from X inactivation. Two lines of evidence indicated that the transgene escaped X inactivation or was reactivated in a small subset of cells rather than being expressed at a lower level from the Xi in all cells, (i) None of nine single cell clones carrying the transgene on the Xi transcribed transgene RNA. In these clones the transgene was highly methylated in contrast to clones carrying the transgene on the Xa. (ii) In situ hybridization to RNA of cultured cells revealed that about 3% of uncloned cells with the transgene on the Xi expressed transgene RNA at a level comparable to that on the Xa. Our results indicate that the autosomal human collagen gene integrated on the mouse X chromosome is susceptible to X inactivation. Inactivation is, however, not complete as a subset of cells carrying the transgene on Xi expresses the transgene at a level comparable to that when carried on Xa.


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