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Microdissection-derived Murine Mcb Probes from Somatic Cell Hybrids

Vladimir Trifonov, Constanze Karst, Uwe Claussen, Kristin Mrasek, Susanne Michel, Philip Avner and Thomas Liehr

Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena, Germany (VT,CK,UC,KM,SM,TL); Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia (VT); and Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Murine, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (PA)

Correspondence to: Dr. Thomas Liehr, Institut für Humangenetik, Postfach D-07740, Jena, Germany. E-mail: i8lith{at}mti.uni-jena.de

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The multicolor-banding (mcb) technique is a fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)-banding approach, which is based on region-specific microdissection libraries producing changing fluorescence intensity ratios along the chromosomes. The latter are used to assign different pseudocolors to specific chromosomal regions. Here we present the first three available mcb-probe sets for the Mus musculus chromosomes 3, 6, and 18. In the present work, the creation of the microdissection libraries was done for the first time on mouse/human somatic cell hybrids. During creation of the mcb-probes, the latter enabled an unambiguous identification of the, otherwise in GTG-banding, hardly distinguishable murine chromosomes. (J Histochem Cytochem 53:791–792, 2005)

Key Words: multicolor banding • murine chromosomes • somatic cell hybrids • fluorescence in situ • hybridization

ALTHOUGH THE MOUSE (Mus musculus) is "the most accessible mammalian model" (Rangarajan and Weinberg 2003) for cytogenetic studies, this species is not very popular. The mouse carries 20 chromosome pairs, which are all acrocentric and uneasy to distinguish after GTG-banding. Thus, murine chromosomal rearrangements can only be characterized in detail using molecular cytogenetic approaches, and the introduction of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using murine whole chromosome painting (wcp) probes (Liyanage et al. 1996; Schröck et al. 1996) enabled a more detailed analysis of chromosomal rearrangements in a variety of cell lines (for overview see Liehr 2005). However, FISH methods using wcp probes reach their limits when exact localization of chromosomal breakpoints is required or when intrachromosomal rearrangements such as small interstitial deletions or duplications and inversions occur. FISH-banding techniques are suitable for the characterization of all kinds of chromosomal rearrangements and marker chromosomes (Liehr et al. 2002a; Liehr 2005). As no multicolor FISH-banding technique for the mouse has been available up to now, the easily applicable and well-established multicolor-banding technique called MCB, or m-bands when using human probes (for overview see Liehr 2005), was adapted for Mus musculus and called mcb.

Here we present for the first time the establishment of murine mcb-probe sets, as well as the establishment of mcb probes from somatic cell hybrids that was not previously reported.

The multicolor-banding technique is based on overlapping region-specific partial chromosome paints generated by glass-needle based microdissection (Chudoba et al. 1999; Liehr et al. 2002b). Each of the probes is based on 15–20 chromosomal fragments and the isolated DNA is amplified by degenerate oligonucleotide-primed polymerase chain reaction (DOP-PCR) (Telenius et al. 1992). Between four and eight microdissection libraries were created per mouse chromosome. The chromosomal location of the partial chromosome painting probes (pcps) as shown in Figure 1 was confirmed by reverse painting to normal murine chromosomes. Four to five different fluorochromes are used to label the pcps: SpectrumOrange, Fluorescein, TexasRed, Cyanine 5 (i.e., Cy5 coupled to avidin for detection of biotinylated probes) and diethylaminocoumarine (DEAC). Probe labeling was done by DOP-PCR again. All technical details of MCB/mcb are described in Liehr et al. (2002b).

View larger version (24K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1 (A–C) Scheme of the microdissection libraries used for achieving the multicolor banding (mcb) on murine chromosomes 3, 6, and 18 plus the corresponding mcb-pseudocolor banding. For mouse chromosome 6 the fluorochrome profiles are depicted, which are the basis for the mcb pseudocolors. The latter are obtained using the Isis software (MetaSystems; Altlussheim, Germany). (D) Result of mcb 6 on a normal female mouse metaphase spread.

In summary, the creation of mcb probes from somatic cell hybrids is a very elegant approach that could be applied to banding in all species that have cytogenetically hardly distinguishable chromosomes.

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This work was supported in part by the DFG (436 RUS 17/49/02 and 436 RUS 17/135/03), the INTAS (2143), and the Deutsche Krebshilfe (70-3125-Li1).

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Received for publication December 13, 2004; accepted January 19, 2005

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