Human artificial chromosome
- Human artificial chromosome
A human artificial chromosome (HAC) is a microchromosome that can act as a new chromosome in a population of human cells. That is, instead of 46 chromosomes, the cell could have 47 with the 47th being very small, roughly 6-10 megabases in size, and able to carry new genes introduced by human researchers. Yeast artificial chromosomes and bacterial artificial chromosomes were invented before human artificial chromosomes, which first appeared in 1997. They are useful in expression studies as gene transfer vectors and are a tool for elucidating human chromosome function. Grown in HT1080 cells, they are mitotically and cytogenetically stable for up to six months.
History
John J. Harrington, Gil Van Bokkelen, Robert W. Mays, Karen Gustashaw & Huntington F. Willard of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine published the first report of them in 1997. They were first synthesized by combining portions of alpha satellite DNA with telomeric DNA and genomic DNA into linear microchromosomes.
ee also
*bacterial artificial chromosome
*yeast artificial chromosome
*plasmid
*cosmid
References
* [http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v15/n4/abs/ng0497-345.html Formation of de novo centromeres and construction of first-generation human artificial microchromosomes] in "Nature Genetics" 15, 345 - 355 (1997) Harrington and Bokkelen et al.
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