Figure 4.
Microsatellite instability in CFUs isolated from mice receiving MSH2–/– bone marrow. Individual CFUs were harvested from mice receiving transplants of 100% MSH2–/– cells and subjected to PCR using a 33P-labeled primer specific for the informative locus D3mit 203. PCR products were electrophoresed on a 7% denaturing gel. The representative gel depicts characteristic microsatellite instability in 2 of 13 CFUs (lanes 3 [insertion] and 12 [deletion]) from secondary recipient mice. Similar evaluations of wild-type marrow from primary and secondary recipients failed to show evidence of microsatellite instability.