title: Construction and characterization of a yeast artificial chromosome library containing 1.5 equivalents of human chromosome 21.
abstract: A library of yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) was constructed from a human/hamster somatic cell hybrid containing human chromosome 21 (q11-qter). Cells were embedded in agarose, and the DNA was partially digested with EcoRI, released into solution by agarase treatment of the agarose plugs, ligated into pYAC4, and transferred into yeast. Double screening of the yeast transformants with human and hamster genomic DNA allowed the selection of clones hybridizing only with human DNA. The library consists of 321 clones, amounting to 1.5 equivalents (61 Mb) of chromosome 21. The mean YAC size calculated from 178 clones is 190 +/- 100 kb. Screening of the library with eight sequence-tagged sites gave six positives. Among 21 YACs tested by in situ hybridization, 17 mapped to chromosome 21.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Potier
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dutriaux
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goedert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015825:Chromosomes, Fungal; D002891:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21; D006224:Cricetinae; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D015723:Gene Library; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D004247:DNA