Elevated Rad53 kinase activity influences formation and interhomolog repair of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks in budding yeast |
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Authors: | Takehiko Usui Yoshiki Kanehara |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Genome and Chromosome Functions, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan |
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Abstract: | Meiotic cells generate physiological programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) to initiate meiotic recombination. Interhomolog repair of the programmed DSBs by meiotic recombination is vital to ensure accurate chromosome segregation at meiosis I to produce normal gametes. In budding yeast, the DNA damage checkpoint kinase Rad53 is activated by DSBs which accidentally occur as DNA lesions in mitosis and meiosis; however, meiotic programmed DSBs which occur at ∼160 loci per genome fail to activate the kinase. Thus, Rad53 activation appears to be silenced in response to meiotic programmed DSBs. In this study, to address the biological significance of Rad53’s insensitivity to meiotic DSBs, we examined the effects of Rad53 overexpression on meiotic processes. The overexpression led to partial activation of Rad53, uncovering that the negative impacts of Rad53 kinase activation on meiotic progression, and formation and interhomolog repair of meiotic programmed DSBs. |
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Keywords: | DSBs, DNA double-strand breaks CO, crossover NCO, non-crossover UTR, untranslated region TCA, trichloroacetic acid ISA, in situ autophosphorylation KD, kinase dead MI, meiosis I MII, meiosis II DAPI, 4&prime ,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
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