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Piazza A, Wright WD, Heyer WD. Multi-invasions Are Recombination Byproducts that Induce Chromosomal Rearrangements. Cell 2017; 170:760-773.e15. [PMID: 28781165 PMCID: PMC5554464 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2017] [Revised: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Inaccurate repair of broken chromosomes generates structural variants that can fuel evolution and inflict pathology. We describe a novel rearrangement mechanism in which translocation between intact chromosomes is induced by a lesion on a third chromosome. This multi-invasion-induced rearrangement (MIR) stems from a homologous recombination byproduct, where a broken DNA end simultaneously invades two intact donors. No homology is required between the donors, and the intervening sequence from the invading molecule is inserted at the translocation site. MIR is stimulated by increasing homology length and spatial proximity of the donors and depends on the overlapping activities of the structure-selective endonucleases Mus81-Mms4, Slx1-Slx4, and Yen1. Conversely, the 3'-flap nuclease Rad1-Rad10 and enzymes known to disrupt recombination intermediates (Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1, Srs2, and Mph1) inhibit MIR. Resolution of MIR intermediates propagates secondary chromosome breaks that frequently cause additional rearrangements. MIR features have implications for the formation of simple and complex rearrangements underlying human pathologies.
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- Aurèle Piazza
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Morgan AP, Holt JM, McMullan RC, Bell TA, Clayshulte AMF, Didion JP, Yadgary L, Thybert D, Odom DT, Flicek P, McMillan L, de Villena FPM. The Evolutionary Fates of a Large Segmental Duplication in Mouse. Genetics 2016; 204:267-85. [PMID: 27371833 PMCID: PMC5012392 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.191007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Gene duplication and loss are major sources of genetic polymorphism in populations, and are important forces shaping the evolution of genome content and organization. We have reconstructed the origin and history of a 127-kbp segmental duplication, R2d, in the house mouse (Mus musculus). R2d contains a single protein-coding gene, Cwc22 De novo assembly of both the ancestral (R2d1) and the derived (R2d2) copies reveals that they have been subject to nonallelic gene conversion events spanning tens of kilobases. R2d2 is also a hotspot for structural variation: its diploid copy number ranges from zero in the mouse reference genome to >80 in wild mice sampled from around the globe. Hemizygosity for high copy-number alleles of R2d2 is associated in cis with meiotic drive; suppression of meiotic crossovers; and copy-number instability, with a mutation rate in excess of 1 per 100 transmissions in some laboratory populations. Our results provide a striking example of allelic diversity generated by duplication and demonstrate the value of de novo assembly in a phylogenetic context for understanding the mutational processes affecting duplicate genes.
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- Andrew P Morgan
- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research United Kingdom Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, CB2 0RE, United Kingdom Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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Agmon N, Liefshitz B, Zimmer C, Fabre E, Kupiec M. Effect of nuclear architecture on the efficiency of double-strand break repair. Nat Cell Biol 2013; 15:694-9. [PMID: 23644470 DOI: 10.1038/ncb2745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The most dangerous insults to the genome's integrity are those that break both strands of the DNA. Double-strand breaks can be repaired by homologous recombination; in this conserved mechanism, a global genomic homology search finds sequences similar to those near the break, and uses them as a template for DNA synthesis and ligation. Chromosomes occupy restricted territories within the nucleus. We show that yeast genomic regions whose nuclear territories overlap recombine more efficiently than sequences located in spatially distant territories. Tethering of telomeres and centromeres reduces the efficiency of recombination between distant genomic loci, lowering the chances of non-allelic recombination. Our results challenge present models that posit an active scanning of the whole nuclear volume by the broken chromosomal end; they demonstrate that the search for homology is a limiting step in homologous recombination, and emphasize the importance of nuclear organization in genome maintenance.
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- Neta Agmon
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Romanini DW, Peralta-Yahya P, Mondol V, Cornish VW. A Heritable Recombination system for synthetic Darwinian evolution in yeast. ACS Synth Biol 2012; 1:602-9. [PMID: 23412545 DOI: 10.1021/sb3000904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Genetic recombination is central to the generation of molecular diversity and enhancement of evolutionary fitness in living systems. Methods such as DNA shuffling that recapitulate this diversity mechanism in vitro are powerful tools for engineering biomolecules with useful new functions by directed evolution. Synthetic biology now brings demand for analogous technologies that enable the controlled recombination of beneficial mutations in living cells. Thus, here we create a Heritable Recombination system centered around a library cassette plasmid that enables inducible mutagenesis via homologous recombination and subsequent combination of beneficial mutations through sexual reproduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using repair of nonsense codons in auxotrophic markers as a model, Heritable Recombination was optimized to give mutagenesis efficiencies of up to 6% and to allow successive repair of different markers through two cycles of sexual reproduction and recombination. Finally, Heritable Recombination was employed to change the substrate specificity of a biosynthetic enzyme, with beneficial mutations in three different active site loops crossed over three continuous rounds of mutation and selection to cover a total sequence diversity of 10(13). Heritable Recombination, while at an early stage of development, breaks the transformation barrier to library size and can be immediately applied to combinatorial crossing of beneficial mutations for cell engineering, adding important features to the growing arsenal of next generation molecular biology tools for synthetic biology.
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- Dante W. Romanini
- Department
of Chemistry, Columbia University, New
York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Columbia University, New
York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Columbia University, New
York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Columbia University, New
York, New York 10027, United States
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Genomic and Population-Level Effects of Gene Conversion in Caenorhabditis Paralogs. Genes (Basel) 2010; 1:452-68. [PMID: 24710096 PMCID: PMC3966223 DOI: 10.3390/genes1030452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2010] [Revised: 11/22/2010] [Accepted: 12/06/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Glover L, McCulloch R, Horn D. Sequence homology and microhomology dominate chromosomal double-strand break repair in African trypanosomes. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:2608-18. [PMID: 18334531 PMCID: PMC2377438 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Genetic diversity in fungi and mammals is generated through mitotic double-strand break-repair (DSBR), typically involving homologous recombination (HR) or non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). Microhomology-mediated joining appears to serve a subsidiary function. The African trypanosome, a divergent protozoan parasite, relies upon rearrangement of subtelomeric variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) genes to achieve antigenic variation. Evidence suggests an absence of NHEJ but chromosomal repair remains largely unexplored. We used a system based on I-SceI meganuclease and monitored temporally constrained DSBR at a specific chromosomal site in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei. In response to the lesion, adjacent single-stranded DNA was generated; the homologous strand-exchange factor, Rad51, accumulated into foci; a G(2)M checkpoint was activated and >50% of cells displayed successful repair. Quantitative analysis of DSBR pathways employed indicated that inter-chromosomal HR dominated. HR displayed a strong preference for the allelic template but also the capacity to interact with homologous sequence on heterologous chromosomes. Intra-chromosomal joining was predominantly, and possibly exclusively, microhomology mediated, a situation unique among organisms examined to date. These DSBR pathways available to T. brucei likely underlie patterns of antigenic variation and the evolution of the vast VSG gene family.
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- Lucy Glover
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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Thrower DA, Stemple J, Yeh E, Bloom K. Nuclear oscillations and nuclear filament formation accompany single-strand annealing repair of a dicentric chromosome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:561-9. [PMID: 12508116 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dicentric chromosomes undergo breakage during mitosis as a result of the attachment of two centromeres on one sister chromatid to opposite spindle poles. Studies utilizing a conditional dicentric chromosome III in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have shown that dicentric chromosome repair occurs primarily by deletion of one centromere via a RAD52-dependent recombination pathway. We report that dicentric chromosome resolution requires RAD1, a gene involved in the single-strand annealing DNA repair pathway. We additionally show that single-strand annealing repair of a dicentric chromosome can occur in the absence of RAD52. RAD52-independent repair requires the adaptation-defective cdc5-ad allele of the yeast polo kinase and the DNA damage checkpoint gene RAD9. Dicentric chromosome breakage in cdc5-ad rad52 mutant cells is associated with a prolonged mitotic arrest, during which nuclei undergo microtubule-dependent oscillations, accompanied by dynamic changes in nuclear morphology. We further demonstrate that the frequency of spontaneous direct repeat recombination is suppressed in yeast cells treated with benomyl, a drug that perturbs microtubules. Our findings indicate that microtubule-dependent processes facilitate recombination.
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- Douglas A Thrower
- Department of Biology, CB3280 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA
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Aragón-Alcaide L, Strunnikov AV. Functional dissection of in vivo interchromosome association in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nat Cell Biol 2000; 2:812-8. [PMID: 11056536 PMCID: PMC2673479 DOI: 10.1038/35041055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Homologue pairing mediates both recombination and segregation of chromosomes at meiosis I. The recognition of nucleic-acid-sequence homology within the somatic nucleus has an impact on DNA repair and epigenetic control of gene expression. Here we investigate interchromosomal interactions using a non-invasive technique that allows tagging and visualization of DNA sequences in vegetative and meiotic live yeast cells. In non-meiotic cells, chromosomes are ordered in the nucleus, but preferential pairing between homologues is not observed. Association of tagged chromosomal domains occurs irrespective of their genomic location, with some preference for similar chromosomal positions. Here we describe a new phenomenon that promotes associations between sequence-identical ectopic tags with a tandem-repeat structure. These associations, termed interchromosome trans-associations, may underlie epigenetic phenomena.
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- L Aragón-Alcaide
- Unit of Chromosome Structure and Function, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, 18T Library Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5430, USA.
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Burgess SM, Kleckner N. Collisions between yeast chromosomal loci in vivo are governed by three layers of organization. Genes Dev 1999; 13:1871-83. [PMID: 10421638 PMCID: PMC316882 DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.14.1871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The relative probabilities that different pairs of chromosomal loci will collide with one another in vegetatively growing diploid yeast cells have been assessed using a genetic assay for Cre/loxP site-specific recombination. Recombination rates have been determined for 18 different pairs of loxP sites representing diverse pairs of positions within the genome. Overall, relative collision probabilities vary over an eightfold range. Within this range, a hierarchy comprising three levels of organization can be discerned. First, collisions between loci on nonhomologous chromosomes are governed by nonspecific centromere clustering. Second, a sequence is closer to allelic or nearby sequences on its homolog than to sequences on nonhomologous chromosomes, an effect most simply attributed to homolog pairing. Third, a sequence can be closer to other sequences nearby on the same chromosome than to sequences on other chromosomes. These findings provide a framework for assessing the role of chromosome disposition in cellular processes such as DNA repair and gene expression. Also the possibility is raised that genome-wide coalignment of homologs is not the fundamental raison d'etre of the somatic pairing process. We suggest instead that pairing may exist to promote juxtaposition of homologous regions within irregular genome complements.
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- S M Burgess
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
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Papadopoulou B, Dumas C. Parameters controlling the rate of gene targeting frequency in the protozoan parasite Leishmania. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:4278-86. [PMID: 9336458 PMCID: PMC147044 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.21.4278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In this study we investigated the role of several parameters governing the efficiency of gene targeting mediated by homologous recombination in the protozoan parasite Leishmania. We evaluated the relative targeting frequencies of different replacement vectors designed to target several sequences within the parasite genome. We found that a decrease in the length of homologous sequences <1 kb on one arm of the vector linearly influences the targeting frequency. No homologous recombination was detected, however, when the flanking homologous regions were <180 bp. A requirement for a very high degree of homology between donor and target sequences was found necessary for efficient gene targeting in Leishmania , as targeted recombination was strongly affected by base pair mismatches. Targeting frequency increased proportionally with copy number of the target only when the target was part of a linear amplicon, but remained unchanged when it was present on circles. Different chromosomal locations were found to be targeted with significantly variable levels of efficiency. Finally, different strains of the same species showed differences in gene targeting frequency. Overall, gene targeting mediated by homologous recombination in Leishmania shares similarities to both the yeast and the mammalian recombination systems.
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- B Papadopoulou
- Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval and Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Wilson JH, Leung WY, Bosco G, Dieu D, Haber JE. The frequency of gene targeting in yeast depends on the number of target copies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:177-81. [PMID: 8278360 PMCID: PMC42909 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.1.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We have compared the efficiency of transformation by linear DNA fragments in yeast strains carrying different numbers of homologous targets for recombination. In strains carrying dispersed copies of a target and in strains carrying tandem arrays, the frequency of transformation is proportional to the number of targets. This result is in contrast to previous studies of transformation in mammalian cells, where targeted integration was insensitive to the number of targets. We conclude that, in yeast, the search for a homologous partner is a rate-limiting step in the successful recombination of linearized DNA fragments. Furthermore, the fact that we obtain the same results with both dispersed and clustered targets argues against models of homology searching in which DNA becomes nonspecifically associated with a chromosome and then slides along the DNA until homology is encountered.
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- J H Wilson
- Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030
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Roitgrund C, Steinlauf R, Kupiec M. Donation: a new, facile method of gene replacement in yeast. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 237:306-10. [PMID: 8455564 DOI: 10.1007/bf00282812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We describe here a new method for the introduction of non-selectable alleles into Saccharomyces cerevisiae, gene replacement by donation. This method only requires the availability of an autonomously replicating, selectable plasmid containing the allele to be introduced into yeast. The plasmid is digested at a restriction site (or sites) within this allele, and introduced into yeast by transformation. In the course of double-strand break repair, the entering plasmid donates genetic information to the chromosome, replacing the chromosomal allele in a gene conversion-like event. Gene replacement events are identified by a phenotypic screen of the transformants. When necessary, the transforming plasmid may be subsequently lost by segregation during permissive growth. We have studied several parameters affecting the utility of this protocol as a method of gene replacement. Together with our previous results, the results show gene replacement by donation to be a useful, facile method, yielding gene replacement in up to 1.5% of transformants.
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- C Roitgrund
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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