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Individual S phase allocyclic chromosomes have been analyzed in Bloom syndrome lymphocytes, in cells with an r(9), and in hypotetraploid Ehrlich mouse ascites cells treated with 1-methyl-2-benzyl hydrazine. On the basis of the following observations, we conclude that such chromosomes more or less reflect their domains in interphase: (1) The S phase allocyclic chromosomes have the same structure as S phase prematurely condensed chromatin (PCC) in fused cells; in other words they form limited areas of chromatin dots; (2) the allocyclic chromosome is the only chromosome in a metaphase plate which synthesizes DNA simultanneously with interphase nuclei; (3) the size of the allocyclic chromosomes is related to the size of the corresponding metaphase chromosome; and (4) the S phase allocyclic chromosomes resemble closely the chromosome domains in interphase made visible with biotinylated human DNA. A variety of evidence shows that most allocyclic chromosomes are simply left behind in their cycle, which presumably is caused by a deletion or inactivation of a hypothetical coiling center situated on each chromosome arm.
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Kuhn, E.M., Therman, E. & Buchler, D.A. Do individual allocyclic chromosomes in metaphase reflect their interphase domains?. Hum Genet 77, 210–213 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00284471
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