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Fig. 5. Chromosomal mutagenesis in Pol
-overexpressing cells. Pol
overexpression was estimated by semi-quantitative RT-PCR (A). A 30-cycle
amplification led to a saturating signal (ND, not detectable), whereas a 10-
or a 20-cycle procedure allowed measurement of the signal overexpression ratio
between RNA extracts from untreated and doxycyclin-treated
pTet-Off/pTRE2-pol
-8-4-containing cells. (B) Untransfected MRC5 cells
or MRC5 cells containing either pTet-Off/pTRE2 (8-TRE2) or
pTet-Off/pTRE2-pol
(8-4) plasmids were grown in the presence or absence
of doxycycline and then incubated with 6-thioguanine to select hprt
mutants. Errors were calculated from three independent experiments.