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GENETICS
Volume 179, Issue 1, Pages 237-247Publisher
GENETICS
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.086603
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM052319, GM52319] Funding Source: Medline
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The yeast TEL1 and MEC1 genes (homologous to the mammalian ATM and ATR genes, respectively) serve partially redundant roles in the detection of DNA damage and in the regulation of telomere length. Haploid yeast tel1 mec1 strains were subcultured nonselectively for similar to 200 cell divisions. The subcultured strains had very high rates of chromosome aberrations: duplications, deletions, and translocations. The breakpoints of the rearranged chromosomes were within retrotransposons (Ty or delta-repeats), and these chromosome aberrations nonrandomly involved chromosome . In addition, we showed that strains with the hypomorphic mec1-21 allele often became disomic for chromosome VIII. This property of the mec1-21 strains is suppressed by a plasmid containing the DNA2 gene (located on chromosome VIII) that encodes an essential nuclease/helicase involved in DNA replication and DNA repair.
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