Abstract
Aminoglycoside antibiotics in Escherichia coli and yeast can cause ribosomes to read through stop codons during translation. This can result in the phenotypic suppression of nonsense mutations. We show here for the first time that the aminoglycosides G-418 and paromomycin have similar effects in monkey (COS-7) cells in vivo. Suppression of an amber mutation (TAG) by aminoglycosides can restore the activity of a mutant gene transfected into COS-7 cells to almost 20% of wild type levels.
MeSH terms
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Acetyltransferases / genetics
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Animals
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Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
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Cell Line
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Cell Survival / drug effects
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Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase
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Chlorocebus aethiops
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DNA Restriction Enzymes
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Gentamicins / pharmacology*
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Kidney
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Kinetics
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Mutation*
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Paromomycin / pharmacology*
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Plasmids
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Suppression, Genetic / drug effects*
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Transfection
Substances
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Gentamicins
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Paromomycin
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antibiotic G 418
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Acetyltransferases
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Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase
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DNA Restriction Enzymes