BACKGROUND: We have previously isolated a series of temperature-sensitive mutants for cell-proliferation from the BHK21 cell line, derived from the golden hamster. These mutants proliferate at 33.5 degrees C, the permissive temperature, but not at 39.5 degrees C the restrictive temperature. Using DNA-mediated gene transfer, human genes complementing these ts mutants were cloned. RESULTS: At 39.5 degrees C the tsBN250 cell line, a temperature-sensitive mutant of the BHK21 cell line, had a defect in the G1 phase, but not in the S phase. The human gene complementing tsBN250 cells was found to encode histidyl-tRNA synthetase. Indeed, the tsBN250 cell line had a single base change--guanine to adenine at the second position of the 362nd codon of hamster histidyl-tRNA-synthetase, converting arginine to histidine. Following release from serum starvation, cyclin E, but not cyclin D1, was accumulated, while, at 39.5 degrees C, the mRNA of cyclin D1 was normally expressed in tsBN250 cells. A similar inhibition of cyclin D1 accumulation was observed in another ts mutant, tsBN269, which has a single point mutation in lysyl-tRNA synthetase. Overexpression of cyclin D1 enabled tsBN250 cells to enter the S phase. CONCLUSION: tsBN250 cells have a single point mutation in histidyl tRNA synthetase that causes a loss of histidyl-tRNA synthetase activity which in turn reduces the content of cyclin D1, but not of cyclin E, thereby resulting in G1 arrest.

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