Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants defective in plasmid-chromosome recombination |
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Authors: | M. Elias-Arnanz A. A. Firmenich P. Berg |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biochemistry, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, B062, Stanford University School of Medicine, 94305-5425, Stanford, CA, USA
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Abstract: | We have studied the recombinational repair of a double-strand break (DSB) in a plasmid-borneade2::HO-site by an intactade2 allele following the induction of a galactose-inducibleGAL-HO gene. IfGAL-HO expression is not attenuated by the presence of a low level of glucose in the galactose medium, deleterious effects are observed. Our comparison of the effects of severalrad mutations on the relative efficiencies of DSB repair at both theade2::HO-site and at the chromosomalMAT locus indicate that the two processes share common functions. Not surprisingly, most of the recombination-defective mutants found using our assay are alleles of genes in theRAD52 epistasis group. The recombination and repair deficiencies vary among the different mutant groups and also among mutants within a group. In general, there is a correlation between the extents of the recombination and repair defects. Our screen also turned up a novelrfa1 allele with a pronounced deficiency in DSB repair and recombination and asrs2 mutation which causes only a mild defect. |
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