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Factors that influence bidirectional long-tract homozygosis due to double-strand break repair in Candida albicans
Authors:Timea Marton,Murielle Chauvel,Adeline Feri,Corinne Maufrais,Christophe D’  enfert,Mé  lanie Legrand
Affiliation:1.Institut Pasteur, INRA, Unité Biologie et Pathogénicité Fongiques, Paris, France;2.Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France;3.Hub de Bioinformatique et Biostatistique, Département de Biologie Computationnelle, USR 3756 IP CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
Abstract:Genomic rearrangements have been associated with the acquisition of adaptive phenotypes, allowing organisms to efficiently generate new favorable genetic combinations. The diploid genome of Candida albicans is highly plastic, displaying numerous genomic rearrangements that are often the by-product of the repair of DNA breaks. For example, DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) repair using homologous-recombination pathways are a major source of loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH), observed ubiquitously in both clinical and laboratory strains of C. albicans. Mechanisms such as break-induced replication (BIR) or mitotic crossover (MCO) can result in long tracts of LOH, spanning hundreds of kilobases until the telomere. Analysis of I-SceI-induced BIR/MCO tracts in C. albicans revealed that the homozygosis tracts can ascend several kilobases toward the centromere, displaying homozygosis from the break site toward the centromere. We sought to investigate the molecular mechanisms that could contribute to this phenotype by characterizing a series of C. albicans DNA repair mutants, including pol32-/-, msh2-/-, mph1-/-, and mus81-/-. The impact of deleting these genes on genome stability revealed functional differences between Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a model DNA repair organism) and C. albicans. In addition, we demonstrated that ascending LOH tracts toward the centromere are associated with intrinsic features of BIR and potentially involve the mismatch repair pathway which acts upon natural heterozygous positions. Overall, this mechanistic approach to study LOH deepens our limited characterization of DNA repair pathways in C. albicans and brings forth the notion that centromere proximal alleles from DNA break sites are not guarded from undergoing LOH.
Keywords:bidirectional loss-of-heterozygosity   break induced replication   Candida albicans   mitotic recombination
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