Originally published as JHC exPRESS on March 6, 2007. doi:10.1369/jhc.6A7161.2007
Volume 55 (6): 651-660, 2007 Copyright ©The Histochemical Society, Inc. New Immortalized Cell Lines of Patients With Small Supernumerary Marker Chromosome: Towards the Establishment of a Cell Bank
Institute of Human Genetics, Charité Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany (HT); Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland (JP,EB); The North West London Hospital, NHS Trust, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom (KMacDermont); Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Jena, Germany (AK,NK,HM,IS,FVE,AW,KMrasek,TL); Department of Pediatrics, University Clinic, Jena, Germany (AK); Practice for Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany (BB); Institute of Human Genetics, Erlangen, Germany (UT); Practice for Human Genetics, Hannover, Germany (AS,BS); Estudio Colaborativo Español de Malformaciones Congénitas del Centro de Investigación sobre Anomalías Congénitas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain (LR); MCL Medical Laboratories, Niederwangen, Switzerland (FB); Service d'Histologie Cytologie Cytogenetique Biologie Cell et de la Reproduction, Limoges, Cedex, France (CY); Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia (NK); Institute of Human Genetics, Magdeburg, Germany (MV); and Department of Genetics and Laboratory of Cytogenetics, State University, Jerewan, Armenia (HM) Correspondence to: PD Dr. Thomas Liehr, Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Kollegiengasse 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany. E-mail: i8lith{at}mti.uni-jena.de
Sixteen newly established cell lines with small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMC) derived from chromosomes 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, and 22 are reported. Two sSMC are neocentric and derived from 15q24.1-qter and 2q35-q36, respectively. Two further cases each present with two sSMC of different chromosomal origin. sSMC were characterized by multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization for their chromosomal origin and genetic content. Moreover, uniparental disomy of the sister chromosomes of the sSMC was excluded in all nine cases studied for that reason. The 16 cases provide information to establish a refined genotypephenotype correlation of sSMC and are available for future studies. (J Histochem Cytochem 55:651660, 2007)
Key Words: small supernumerary marker chromosome cell line EpsteinBarr virus immortalization genotypephenotype correlation cell bank
SMALL SUPERNUMERARY MARKER CHROMOSOMES (sSMC) are a diagnostic problem in clinical cytogenetics because they are too small to be characterized for their chromosomal origin by banding techniques alone; generally, they are equal in size or smaller than a chromosome 20 of the same metaphase spread. Thus, molecular cytogenetic, i.e., fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) approaches are needed for their classification (Liehr et al. 2004 2.7 million people worldwide (prevalence: 0.044%) (Liehr et al. 2004
For de novo sSMC, particularly those ascertained prenatally, Paoloni-Giacobino et al. (1998) It should be emphasized that a comprehensive marker chromosome characterization would be best for carriers of sSMC; however, this is not always possible due to lack of corresponding methods and/or sufficient probe sample. After a complete molecular cytogenetic characterization, sSMC cell lines could also be available for further research, e.g., depending on the modes of sSMC formation, karyotypic evolution of an sSMC, or changed expression profiles of cells due to presence of sSMC.
We recently studied 19 of the
(Molecular) Cytogenetics Banding cytogenetics was done according to standard procedures (Seabright 1971
Analysis for Uniparental Disomy Uniparental disomy (UPD) for the sister chromosomes of the sSMC (see Figure 2 ) were excluded either by microsatellite analysis (Starke et al. 2003
EpsteinBarr Virus Transformation of Peripheral Blood B-lymphocytes EpsteinBarr virus (EBV) was done as previously described using 210 ml of heparinized peripheral blood (Pattengale et al. 1973
To date we have established for our sSMC cell bank 16 new sSMC cell lines (see Table 1) by EBV transformation of peripheral blood B-lymphocytes. sSMC were characterized by molecular cytogenetics for their chromosomal origin and genetic content (Table 1). An example for the applied FISH methods is given for case 05P0529 in Figure 3 .
Cell lines presented here contain sSMC derived from chromosomes 1 (05P0749), 2 (2006B211, 05P0417), 4 (05P0163), 6 (05P0223), 7 (05P0529), 8 (05P0208), 14 (06P0430), 15 (05P0753, 06P0226), 16 (06P0100), 18 (06P0222, 05P0294, 05P0163), 19 (05P0277, 05P0067), 21 (05P0208), and 22 (05P0209). Two neocentric sSMC cell lines derived from 2q35-q36 and 15q24.1-qter, respectively, were established (05P0417, 05P0753). In two further cases, two sSMC of different chromosomal origin each were present (05P0163, 05P0208). Parental DNA was available for UPD analysis in 9/16 cases, and a UPD was excluded in all (2006B211, 05P0417, 05P0223, 05P0529, 05P0753, 06P0226, 05P0067, 05P0163, 05P0208; Table 1).
As mentioned above, there is a lack of sSMC cell lines; thus, 16 new EBV-transformed sSMC cell lines are presented here (see Table 1). EBV transformation was chosen for immortalization because it is a well-established and, in our hands, easily performed approach. It has been taken into account that the mechanism of EBV transformation is still not completely understood (Yamashita et al. 2006 For all 16 cell lines, clinical data could be collected, and the mosaic state of the sSMC could be determined, as well as the chromosomal origin and genetic content present on the sSMC (see Table 1). Six sSMC carriers were clinically normal, and five of those six had a euchromatic imbalance due to sSMC presence. Thus, those cases could not only provide the genotypephenotype correlation of sSMC (see below and Figure 3) but are also important for future studies on the question of if and how these genetically relevant regions are silenced, e.g., by heterochromatization.
Ten of the cases included in our sSMC cell bank provided information about the genotypephenotype correlation as suggested in Liehr et al. (2006)
In summary, a cell bank of sSMC has been established, and 16 cases have already been included here. In the future, this cell bank will be crucial for an exact genotypephenotype correlation in sSMC. It will be possible, for example, to select in a chromosome-specific manner for sSMC cases and align the clinical outcome with the genetic and proteomic profiles, e.g., by array CGH (Shaffer and Bejjani 2006
This study was supported in part by the DFG (436 ARM 17/2/04, 436 RUS 17/109/04, 436 RUS 17/22/06, WE 3617/2-1, LI820/11-1), the Schering Foundation, the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung, and the Evangelische Studienwerk e.V. Villigst. The support of all families with incidences of sSMC and their willingness to support this study by providing blood samples is gratefully acknowledged. Drs. A. Torres and A. Lara from the Hospital San Juan de la Cruz (Úbeda) Jaen, Spain are acknowledged for providing two of the sSMC cases.
Received for publication November 30, 2006; accepted February 8, 2007
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