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Hoechst 33258 fluorescent staining of bromodeoxyuridine substituted chromosomes provided a high resolution technique for following the segregation of replicated chromosomal DNA (Latt, 1973). Modifications have produced the same results after Giemsa staining (Wolff and Perry, 1975). Since this does not necessarily require Hoechst (Korenberg and Freedlander, 1975), we call this bromodeoxyuridine-Giemsa banding (BG-banding). We here describe a further modification which allows one to follow the T-rich strand of the AT-rich satellite DNA of C-band heterochromatin. We call this TC-banding. This technique was used to examine metacentric marker chromosomes found in mouse L-cells that contain many interstitial blocks of centromeric-type heterochromatin in each arm plus the usual two blocks of centromeric heterochromatin. One of the advantages of this technique for such chromosomes is that it is possible to distinguish first from second cell cycle sister chromatid exchange and unambiguously detect centromeric sister chromatid exchange. We found some chromosomes to have high rates of centromeric sister chromatid exchange. After one cycle in bromodeoxyuridine we could examine the satellite polarity of the heterochromatic DNA. Since there was no change in satellite polarity in any of the heterochromatic blocks, marker chromosomes could not have been formed by paracentric inversions, inverted insertions or inverted translocations. These results allow the formulation of several rules of chromosome organization.
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Holmquist, G.P., Comings, D.E. Sister chromatid exchange and chromosome organization based on a bromodeoxyuridine Giemsa-C-banding technique (TC-Banding). Chromosoma 52, 245–259 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00332114
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