On the mechanism of premeiotic DNA synthesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
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Authors: | L H Johnston D H Williamson A L Johnson D J Fennell |
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Institution: | Division of Microbiology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 IAA, UK |
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Abstract: | Premeiotic DNA synthesis in synchronously sporulating cultures of the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was analysed by sedimentation in alkaline sucrose gradients and by DNA-fibre autoradiography. The gradient profiles of cells pulse-labelled for varying times were essentially identical with those obtained with mitotic cultures, revealing a close resemblance between the meiotic and mitotic replication mechanisms. This was supported by the finding that exposure of meiotic cells to a specific concentration of hydroxyurea led to the accumulation of completed, but unjoined replicons, just as it does in mitotic cells. The results of DNA-fibre autoradiography confirmed that replicons in meiotic cells are the same size (20–180 Kb, averaging around 90 Kb) as in mitotic cells, and assuming replication is bi-directional, replication forks must move at round the same rate as in mitosis, i.e. about 0.7 μm/min. |
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