Copy number control by a yeast centromere |
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Authors: | G Tschumper J Carbon |
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Institution: | Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 U.S.A. Tel. 805-961-3867 |
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Abstract: | Plasmids containing a cloned yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) centromere (CEN3) in combination with a suitable DNA replication system are maintained in yeast at the low copy number typical of a chromosome. In composite plasmids containing CEN3 plus the yeast 2 mu plasmid, the CEN3 copy number control is dominant over the amplification system that normally drives the 2 mu plasmids to high copy number. The CEN3-2 mu composite plasmids are relatively stably maintained in yeast at a copy number of about one per haploid genome, and segregate through meiosis in a typical Mendelian pattern. Some of the CEN3-2 mu composite plasmids isolated from yeast contain deletions of variable size that remove the functional centromere, resulting in loss of the CEN3 control and reversion to high copy number. Formation of the CEN3 deletions requires the specialized recombination system (inverted repeat sequences and FLP gene) of the yeast 2 mu plasmid. |
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Keywords: | recombinant DNA yeast 2μ composite plasmids amplification system cloning vectors centromere deletions bp base pairs kb kilobase pairs SDS sodium dodecyl sulfate SCE buffers SSC buffers STE buffers |
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