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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 102, Issue 49, Pages 17711-17716Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0504643102
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM40000, R01 GM040000] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [T32-09078] Funding Source: Medline
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Abasic (apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP)] sites are common, noncoding DNA lesions. Despite extensive investigation, the mutational pattern they provoke in eukaryotic cells remains unresolved. We constructed Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains in which chromosomal AP sites were generated during normal cell growth by altered human uracil-DNA glycosylases that remove undamaged cytosines or thymines. The mutation target was the URA3 gene inserted near the ARS309 origin to allow defined replication polarity. Expression of the altered glycosylases caused a 7- to 18-fold mutator effect in AP enclonuclease-cleficient (Delta apnl) yeast, which depended highly on the known translesion synthesis enzymes Rev1 and DNA polymerase. For the C-glycosylase, GC>CG transversions were the predominant mutations, followed by GC>AT transitions. AT>CG transversions predominated for the T-glycosylase. These results support a major role for Rev1-dependent dCMP insertion across from AP sites and a lesser role for dAMP insertion. Unexpectedly, there was also a significant proportion of dTMP insertions that suggest another mutational pathway at AP sites. Although replication polarity did not strongly influence mutagenesis at AP sites, for certain mutation types, there was a surprisingly strong difference between the transcribed and non-transcribed strands of URA3. The basis for this strand discrimination requires further exploration.
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