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Kuhl LM, Makrantoni V, Recknagel S, Vaze AN, Marston AL, Vader G. A dCas9-Based System Identifies a Central Role for Ctf19 in Kinetochore-Derived Suppression of Meiotic Recombination. Genetics 2020; 216:395-408. [PMID: 32843356 PMCID: PMC7536843 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.120.303384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
In meiosis, crossover (CO) formation between homologous chromosomes is essential for faithful segregation. However, misplaced meiotic recombination can have catastrophic consequences on genome stability. Within pericentromeres, COs are associated with meiotic chromosome missegregation. In organisms ranging from yeast to humans, pericentromeric COs are repressed. We previously identified a role for the kinetochore-associated Ctf19 complex (Ctf19c) in pericentromeric CO suppression. Here, we develop a dCas9/CRISPR-based system that allows ectopic targeting of Ctf19c-subunits. Using this approach, we query sufficiency in meiotic CO suppression, and identify Ctf19 as a mediator of kinetochore-associated CO control. The effect of Ctf19 is encoded in its NH2-terminal tail, and depends on residues important for the recruitment of the Scc2-Scc4 cohesin regulator. This work provides insight into kinetochore-derived control of meiotic recombination. We establish an experimental platform to investigate and manipulate meiotic CO control. This platform can easily be adapted in order to investigate other aspects of chromosome biology.
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- Lisa-Marie Kuhl
- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund 44227, Germany
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund 44227, Germany
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund 44227, Germany
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund 44227, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) in Chemical and Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund 44227, Germany
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Gautam A, Beggs JD. Mutagenesis of Snu114 domain IV identifies a developmental role in meiotic splicing. RNA Biol 2019; 16:185-195. [PMID: 30672374 PMCID: PMC6380292 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2018.1561145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Snu114, a component of the U5 snRNP, plays a key role in activation of the spliceosome. It controls the action of Brr2, an RNA-stimulated ATPase/RNA helicase that disrupts U4/U6 snRNA base-pairing prior to formation of the spliceosome's catalytic centre. Snu114 has a highly conserved domain structure that resembles that of the GTPase EF-2/EF-G in the ribosome. It has been suggested that the regulatory function of Snu114 in activation of the spliceosome is mediated by its C-terminal region, however, there has been only limited characterisation of the interactions of the C-terminal domains. We show a direct interaction between protein phosphatase PP1 and Snu114 domain 'IVa' and identify sequence 'YGVQYK' as a PP1 binding motif. Interestingly, this motif is also required for Cwc21 binding. We provide evidence for mutually exclusive interaction of Cwc21 and PP1 with Snu114 and show that the affinity of Cwc21 and PP1 for Snu114 is influenced by the different nucleotide-bound states of Snu114. Moreover, we identify a novel mutation in domain IVa that, while not affecting vegetative growth of yeast cells, causes a defect in splicing transcripts of the meiotic genes, SPO22, AMA1 and MER2, thereby inhibiting an early stage of meiosis.
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- Amit Gautam
- a Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology , University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , UK
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- a Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology , University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , UK
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Markowitz TE, Suarez D, Blitzblau HG, Patel NJ, Markhard AL, MacQueen AJ, Hochwagen A. Reduced dosage of the chromosome axis factor Red1 selectively disrupts the meiotic recombination checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006928. [PMID: 28746375 PMCID: PMC5549997 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Meiotic chromosomes assemble characteristic "axial element" structures that are essential for fertility and provide the chromosomal context for meiotic recombination, synapsis and checkpoint signaling. Whether these meiotic processes are equally dependent on axial element integrity has remained unclear. Here, we investigated this question in S. cerevisiae using the putative condensin allele ycs4S. We show that the severe axial element assembly defects of this allele are explained by a linked mutation in the promoter of the major axial element gene RED1 that reduces Red1 protein levels to 20-25% of wild type. Intriguingly, the Red1 levels of ycs4S mutants support meiotic processes linked to axis integrity, including DNA double-strand break formation and deposition of the synapsis protein Zip1, at levels that permit 70% gamete survival. By contrast, the ability to elicit a meiotic checkpoint arrest is completely eliminated. This selective loss of checkpoint function is supported by a RED1 dosage series and is associated with the loss of most of the cytologically detectable Red1 from the axial element. Our results indicate separable roles for Red1 in building the structural axis of meiotic chromosomes and mounting a sustained recombination checkpoint response.
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- Tovah E. Markowitz
- Department of Biology; New York University; New York, NY; United States of America
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- Department of Biology; New York University; New York, NY; United States of America
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Cambridge, MA; United States of America
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- Department of Biology; New York University; New York, NY; United States of America
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Cambridge, MA; United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Wesleyan University; Middletown, CT; United States of America
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- Department of Biology; New York University; New York, NY; United States of America
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Cambridge, MA; United States of America
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Becker E, Liu Y, Lardenois A, Walther T, Horecka J, Stuparevic I, Law MJ, Lavigne R, Evrard B, Demougin P, Riffle M, Strich R, Davis RW, Pineau C, Primig M. Integrated RNA- and protein profiling of fermentation and respiration in diploid budding yeast provides insight into nutrient control of cell growth and development. J Proteomics 2015; 119:30-44. [PMID: 25662576 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2015.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Revised: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
UNLABELLED Diploid budding yeast undergoes rapid mitosis when it ferments glucose, and in the presence of a non-fermentable carbon source and the absence of a nitrogen source it triggers sporulation. Rich medium with acetate is a commonly used pre-sporulation medium, but our understanding of the molecular events underlying the acetate-driven transition from mitosis to meiosis is still incomplete. We identified 263 proteins for which mRNA and protein synthesis are linked or uncoupled in fermenting and respiring cells. Using motif predictions, interaction data and RNA profiling we find among them 28 likely targets for Ume6, a subunit of the conserved Rpd3/Sin3 histone deacetylase-complex regulating genes involved in metabolism, stress response and meiosis. Finally, we identify 14 genes for which both RNA and proteins are detected exclusively in respiring cells but not in fermenting cells in our sample set, including CSM4, SPR1, SPS4 and RIM4, which were thought to be meiosis-specific. Our work reveals intertwined transcriptional and post-transcriptional control mechanisms acting when a MATa/α strain responds to nutritional signals, and provides molecular clues how the carbon source primes yeast cells for entering meiosis. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Our integrated genomics study provides insight into the interplay between the transcriptome and the proteome in diploid yeast cells undergoing vegetative growth in the presence of glucose (fermentation) or acetate (respiration). Furthermore, it reveals novel target genes involved in these processes for Ume6, the DNA binding subunit of the conserved histone deacetylase Rpd3 and the co-repressor Sin3. We have combined data from an RNA profiling experiment using tiling arrays that cover the entire yeast genome, and a large-scale protein detection analysis based on mass spectrometry in diploid MATa/α cells. This distinguishes our study from most others in the field-which investigate haploid yeast strains-because only diploid cells can undergo meiotic development in the simultaneous absence of a non-fermentable carbon source and nitrogen. Indeed, we report molecular clues how respiration of acetate might prime diploid cells for efficient spore formation, a phenomenon that is well known but poorly understood.
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Rowan University, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Proteomics Core Facility Biogenouest, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Rowan University, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
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- Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France; Inserm U1085 IRSET, Proteomics Core Facility Biogenouest, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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- Inserm U1085 IRSET, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France.
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Srinivasan DG, Abdelhady A, Stern DL. Gene expression analysis of parthenogenetic embryonic development of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, suggests that aphid parthenogenesis evolved from meiotic oogenesis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e115099. [PMID: 25501006 PMCID: PMC4264872 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Aphids exhibit a form of phenotypic plasticity, called polyphenism, in which genetically identical females reproduce sexually during one part of the life cycle and asexually (via parthenogenesis) during the remainder of the life cycle. The molecular basis for aphid parthenogenesis is unknown. Cytological observations of aphid parthenogenesis suggest that asexual oogenesis evolved either through a modification of meiosis or from a mitotic process. As a test of these alternatives, we assessed the expression levels and expression patterns of canonical meiotic recombination and germline genes in the sexual and asexual ovaries of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. We observed expression of all meiosis genes in similar patterns in asexual and sexual ovaries, with the exception that some genes encoding Argonaute-family members were not expressed in sexual ovaries. In addition, we observed that asexual aphid tissues accumulated unspliced transcripts of Spo11, whereas sexual aphid tissues accumulated primarily spliced transcripts. In situ hybridization revealed Spo11 transcript in sexual germ cells and undetectable levels of Spo11 transcript in asexual germ cells. We also found that an obligately asexual strain of pea aphid produced little spliced Spo11 transcript. Together, these results suggest that parthenogenetic oogenesis evolved from a meiosis-like, and not a mitosis-like, process and that the aphid reproductive polyphenism may involve a modification of Spo11 gene activity.
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- Dayalan G. Srinivasan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, United States of America
- Department of Biological Science, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ, 08028, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Science, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, NJ, 08028, United States of America
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, United States of America
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Comparative proteomics of mitosis and meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Proteomics 2014; 109:1-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2013] [Revised: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 06/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Yeheskely-Hayon D, Kotler A, Stark M, Hashimshony T, Sagee S, Kassir Y. The roles of the catalytic and noncatalytic activities of Rpd3L and Rpd3S in the regulation of gene transcription in yeast. PLoS One 2013; 8:e85088. [PMID: 24358376 PMCID: PMC3866184 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2013] [Accepted: 11/22/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In budding yeasts, the histone deacetylase Rpd3 resides in two different complexes called Rpd3L (large) and Rpd3S (small) that exert opposing effects on the transcription of meiosis-specific genes. By introducing mutations that disrupt the integrity and function of either Rpd3L or Rpd3S, we show here that Rpd3 function is determined by its association with either of these complexes. Specifically, the catalytic activity of Rpd3S activates the transcription of the two major positive regulators of meiosis, IME1 and IME2, under all growth conditions and activates the transcription of NDT80 only during vegetative growth. In contrast, the effects of Rpd3L depends on nutrients; it represses or activates transcription in the presence or absence of a nitrogen source, respectively. Further, we show that transcriptional activation does not correlate with histone H4 deacetylation, suggesting an effect on a nonhistone protein. Comparison of rpd3-null and catalytic-site point mutants revealed an inhibitory activity that is independent of either the catalytic activity of Rpd3 or the integrity of Rpd3L and Rpd3S.
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- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Callender TL, Hollingsworth NM. Mek1 suppression of meiotic double-strand break repair is specific to sister chromatids, chromosome autonomous and independent of Rec8 cohesin complexes. Genetics 2010; 185:771-82. [PMID: 20421598 PMCID: PMC2900162 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.117523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2010] [Accepted: 04/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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During meiosis, recombination is directed to occur between homologous chromosomes to create connections necessary for proper segregation at meiosis I. Partner choice is determined at the time of strand invasion and is mediated by two recombinases: Rad51 and the meiosis-specific Dmc1. In budding yeast, interhomolog bias is created in part by the activity of a meiosis-specific kinase, Mek1, which is localized to the protein cores of condensed sister chromatids. Analysis of meiotic double-strand break (DSB) repair in haploid and disomic haploid strains reveals that Mek1 suppresses meiotic intersister DSB repair by working directly on sister chromatids. Rec8 cohesin complexes are not required, however, either for suppression of intersister DSB repair or for the repair itself. Regulation of DSB repair in meiosis is chromosome autonomous such that unrepaired breaks on haploid chromosomes do not prevent interhomolog repair between disomic homologs. The pattern of DSB repair in haploids containing Dmc1 and/or Rad51 indicates that Mek1 acts on Rad51-specific recombination processes.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5215
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Jani NM, Lopes JM. Transcription regulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PIS1 gene by inositol and the pleiotropic regulator, Ume6p. Mol Microbiol 2008; 70:1529-39. [PMID: 19019152 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06506.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, transcription of most of the phospholipid biosynthetic genes (e.g. INO1, CHO1, CHO2 and OPI3) is repressed by growth in the presence of inositol and choline and derepressed in their absence. This regulation requires the Ino2p and Ino4p activators and the Opi1p repressor. The PIS1 structural gene is required for the synthesis of the essential lipid phosphatidylinositol. Previous reports show that PIS1 expression is uncoupled from inositol/choline regulation, but is regulated by carbon source, hypoxia and zinc. However, in this study we found that the expression of PIS1 is induced twofold by inositol. This regulation did not require Ino2p and Ino4p, although Ino4p was required for full expression. Ino4p is a basic helix-loop-helix protein that requires a binding partner. Curiously, none of the other basic helix-loop-helix proteins affected PIS1 expression. Inositol induction did require another general regulator of phospholipid biosynthesis, Ume6p. Ume6p was found to be a positive regulator of PIS1 gene expression. Ume6p, and several associated factors, were required for inositol-mediated induction and chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis showed that Ume6p directly regulates PIS1 expression. Thus, we demonstrate novel regulation of the PIS1 gene by Ume6p.
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- Niketa M Jani
- Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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Lo HC, Wan L, Rosebrock A, Futcher B, Hollingsworth NM. Cdc7-Dbf4 regulates NDT80 transcription as well as reductional segregation during budding yeast meiosis. Mol Biol Cell 2008; 19:4956-67. [PMID: 18768747 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e08-07-0755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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In budding yeast, as in other eukaryotes, the Cdc7 protein kinase is important for initiation of DNA synthesis in vegetative cells. In addition, Cdc7 has crucial meiotic functions: it facilitates premeiotic DNA replication, and it is essential for the initiation of recombination. This work uses a chemical genetic approach to demonstrate that Cdc7 kinase has additional roles in meiosis. First, Cdc7 allows expression of NDT80, a meiosis-specific transcriptional activator required for the induction of genes involved in exit from pachytene, meiotic progression, and spore formation. Second, Cdc7 is necessary for recruitment of monopolin to sister kinetochores, and it is necessary for the reductional segregation occurring at meiosis I. The use of the same kinase to regulate several distinct meiosis-specific processes may be important for the coordination of these processes during meiosis.
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- Hsiao-Chi Lo
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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Niu H, Wan L, Baumgartner B, Schaefer D, Loidl J, Hollingsworth NM. Partner choice during meiosis is regulated by Hop1-promoted dimerization of Mek1. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:5804-18. [PMID: 16221890 PMCID: PMC1289423 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-05-0465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Meiotic recombination differs from mitotic recombination in that DSBs are repaired using homologous chromosomes, rather than sister chromatids. This change in partner choice is due in part to a barrier to sister chromatid repair (BSCR) created by the meiosis-specific kinase, Mek1, in a complex with two other meiosis-specific proteins, Hop1 and Red1. HOP1 contains two functional domains, called the N and C domains. Analysis of a point mutation that specifically inactivates the C domain (hop1-K593A) reveals that the N domain is sufficient for Hop1 localization to chromosomes and for Red1 and Hop1 interactions. The C domain is needed for spore viability, for chromosome synapsis, and for preventing DMC1-independent DSB repair, indicating it plays a role in the BSCR. All of the hop1-K593A phenotypes can be bypassed by fusion of ectopic dimerization domains to Mek1, suggesting that the function of the C domain is to promote Mek1 dimerization. Hop1 is a DSB-dependent phosphoprotein, whose phosphorylation requires the presence of the C domain, but is independent of MEK1. These results suggest a model in which Hop1 phosphorylation in response to DSBs triggers dimerization of Mek1 via the Hop1 C domain, thereby enabling Mek1 to phosphorylate target proteins that prevent repair of DSBs by sister chromatids.
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- Hengyao Niu
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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Mallory MJ, Strich R. Ume1p represses meiotic gene transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through interaction with the histone deacetylase Rpd3p. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:44727-34. [PMID: 12954623 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308632200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Ume1p is a member of a conserved protein family including RbAp48 that associates with histone deacetylases. Consistent with this finding, Ume1p is required for the full repression of a subset of meiotic genes during vegetative growth in budding yeast. In addition to mitotic cell division, this report describes a new role for Ume1p in meiotic gene repression in precommitment sporulating cultures returning to vegetative growth. However, Ume1p is not required to re-establish repression as part of the meiotic transient transcription program. Mutational analysis revealed that two conserved domains (NEE box and a WD repeat motif) are required for Ume1p-dependent repression. Co-immunoprecipitation studies revealed that both the NEE box and the WD repeat motif are essential for normal Rpd3p binding. Finally, Ume1p-Rpd3p association is dependent on the global co-repressor Sin3p. Moreover, this activity was localized to one of the four paired amphipathic-helix domains of Sin3p shown previously to be required for transcriptional repression. These findings support a model that Ume1p binding to Rpd3p is required for its repression activity. In addition, these results suggest that Rpd3-Ume1p-Sin3p comprises an interdependent complex required for mediating transcriptional repression.
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- Michael J Mallory
- Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, USA
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Wan L, de los Santos T, Zhang C, Shokat K, Hollingsworth NM. Mek1 kinase activity functions downstream of RED1 in the regulation of meiotic double strand break repair in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 15:11-23. [PMID: 14595109 PMCID: PMC307523 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-07-0499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Three meiosis-specific chromosomal components in budding yeast, Mek1, Red1, and Hop1, are required for recombination, proper segregation of homologs, and the meiotic recombination checkpoint. Mek1 is a protein kinase. Mutations that increase the size of the ATP binding pocket of Mek1 (mek1-as1) sensitize the kinase to specific small molecule inhibitors. Experiments using mek1-as1 demonstrate that the requirement for Mek1 kinase activity coincides with the formation of double strand breaks (DSBs) and that this activity is necessary after DSB formation to prevent repair by DMC1-independent pathways. Contrary to previous reports, Red1 is not a substrate for Mek1. Instead, RED1 is required for wild-type levels of Mek1 kinase activity. In addition, activation of Mek1 requires HOP1, the formation of Red1/Hop1 complexes and a functional Mek1 FHA domain. The requirement for RED1 to produce active kinase can be bypassed by a mek1 mutation that creates a constitutively active Mek1 kinase. We propose that Red1 is phosphorylated by a kinase other than MEK1 and that phosphothreonines on Red1 then interact with the Mek1 FHA domain to recruit the kinase to sites of DSBs where Mek1 is activated to prevent DMC1-independent DSB repair.
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- Lihong Wan
- Institute for Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5215, USA
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Rudge SA, Sciorra VA, Iwamoto M, Zhou C, Strahl T, Morris AJ, Thorner J, Engebrecht J. Roles of phosphoinositides and of Spo14p (phospholipase D)-generated phosphatidic acid during yeast sporulation. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 15:207-18. [PMID: 14528019 PMCID: PMC307541 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-04-0245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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During yeast sporulation, internal membrane synthesis ensures that each haploid nucleus is packaged into a spore. Prospore membrane formation requires Spo14p, a phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2]-stimulated phospholipase D (PLD), which hydrolyzes phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) to phosphatidic acid (PtdOH) and choline. We found that both meiosis and spore formation also require the phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns)/PtdCho transport protein Sec14p. Specific ablation of the PtdIns transport activity of Sec14p was sufficient to impair spore formation but not meiosis. Overexpression of Pik1p, a PtdIns 4-kinase, suppressed the sec14-1 meiosis and spore formation defects; conversely, pik1-ts diploids failed to undergo meiosis and spore formation. The PtdIns(4)P 5-kinase, Mss4p, also is essential for spore formation. Use of phosphoinositide-specific GFP-PH domain reporters confirmed that PtdIns(4,5)P2 is enriched in prospore membranes. sec14, pik1, and mss4 mutants displayed decreased Spo14p PLD activity, whereas absence of Spo14p did not affect phosphoinositide levels in vivo, suggesting that formation of PtdIns(4,5)P2 is important for Spo14p activity. Spo14p-generated PtdOH appears to have an essential role in sporulation, because treatment of cells with 1-butanol, which supports Spo14p-catalyzed PtdCho breakdown but leads to production of Cho and Ptd-butanol, blocks spore formation at concentrations where the inert isomer, 2-butanol, has little effect. Thus, rather than a role for PtdOH in stimulating PtdIns(4,5)P2 formation, our findings indicate that during sporulation, Spo14p-mediated PtdOH production functions downstream of Sec14p-, Pik1p-, and Mss4p-dependent PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis.
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- Simon A Rudge
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0668, USA
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Kassir Y, Adir N, Boger-Nadjar E, Raviv NG, Rubin-Bejerano I, Sagee S, Shenhar G. Transcriptional regulation of meiosis in budding yeast. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2003; 224:111-71. [PMID: 12722950 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(05)24004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Initiation of meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is regulated by mating type and nutritional conditions that restrict meiosis to diploid cells grown under starvation conditions. Specifically, meiosis occurs in MATa/MATalpha cells shifted to nitrogen depletion media in the absence of glucose and the presence of a nonfermentable carbon source. These conditions lead to the expression and activation of Ime 1, the master regulator of meiosis. IME1 encodes a transcriptional activator recruited to promoters of early meiosis-specific genes by association with the DNA-binding protein, Ume6. Under vegetative growth conditions these genes are silent due to recruitment of the Sin3/Rpd3 histone deacetylase and Isw2 chromatin remodeling complexes by Ume6. Transcription of these meiotic genes occurs following histone acetylation by Gcn5. Expression of the early genes promote entry into the meiotic cycle, as they include genes required for premeiotic DNA synthesis, synapsis of homologous chromosomes, and meiotic recombination. Two of the early meiosis specific genes, a transcriptional activator, Ndt80, and a CDK2 homologue, Ime2, are required for the transcription of middle meiosis-specific genes that are involved with nuclear division and spore formation. Spore maturation depends on late genes whose expression is indirectly dependent on Ime1, Ime2, and Ndt80. Finally, phosphorylation of Imel by Ime2 leads to its degradation, and consequently to shutting down of the meiotic transcriptional cascade. This review is focusing on the regulation of gene expression governing initiation and progression through meiosis.
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- Yona Kassir
- Department of Biology, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
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de los Santos T, Hunter N, Lee C, Larkin B, Loidl J, Hollingsworth NM. The Mus81/Mms4 endonuclease acts independently of double-Holliday junction resolution to promote a distinct subset of crossovers during meiosis in budding yeast. Genetics 2003; 164:81-94. [PMID: 12750322 PMCID: PMC1462551 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/164.1.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Current models for meiotic recombination require that crossovers derive from the resolution of a double-Holliday junction (dHJ) intermediate. In prokaryotes, enzymes responsible for HJ resolution are well characterized but the identification of a eukaryotic nuclear HJ resolvase has been elusive. Indirect evidence suggests that MUS81 from humans and fission yeast encodes a HJ resolvase. We provide three lines of evidence that Mus81/Mms4 is not the major meiotic HJ resolvase in S. cerevisiae: (1) MUS81/MMS4 is required to form only a distinct subset of crossovers; (2) rather than accumulating, dHJ intermediates are reduced in an mms4 mutant; and (3) expression of a bacterial HJ resolvase has no suppressive effect on mus81 meiotic phenotypes. Our analysis also reveals the existence of two distinct classes of crossovers in budding yeast. Class I is dependent upon MSH4/MSH5 and exhibits crossover interference, while class II is dependent upon MUS81/MMS4 and exhibits no interference. mms4 specifically reduces crossing over on small chromosomes, which are known to undergo less interference. The correlation between recombination rate and degree of interference to chromosome size may therefore be achieved by modulating the balance between class I/class II crossovers.
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- Teresa de los Santos
- Institute for Cell and Developmental Biology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5215, USA
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Shimizu M, Mitchell AP. Hap1p photofootprinting as an in vivo assay of repression mechanism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Enzymol 2003; 370:479-87. [PMID: 14712669 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(03)70041-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Jiao K, Nau JJ, Cool M, Gray WM, Fassler JS, Malone RE. Phylogenetic footprinting reveals multiple regulatory elements involved in control of the meiotic recombination gene, REC102. Yeast 2002; 19:99-114. [PMID: 11788965 DOI: 10.1002/yea.800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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REC102 is a meiosis-specific early exchange gene absolutely required for meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sequence analysis of REC102 indicates that there are multiple potential regulatory elements in its promoter region, and a possible regulatory element in the coding region. This suggests that the regulation of REC102 may be complex and may include elements not yet reported in other meiotic genes. To identify potential cis-regulatory elements, phylogenetic footprinting analysis was used. REC102 homologues were cloned from other two Saccharomyces spp. and sequence comparison among the three species defined evolutionarily conserved elements. Deletion analysis demonstrated that the early meiotic gene regulatory element URS1 was necessary but not sufficient for proper regulation of REC102. Upstream elements, including the binding sites for Gcr1p, Yap1p, Rap1p and several novel conserved sequences, are also required for the normal regulation of REC102 as well as a Rap1p binding site located in the coding region. The data in this paper support the use of phylogenetic comparisions as a method for determining important sequences in complex promoters.
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- Kai Jiao
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
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de los Santos T, Loidl J, Larkin B, Hollingsworth NM. A role for MMS4 in the processing of recombination intermediates during meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2001; 159:1511-25. [PMID: 11779793 PMCID: PMC1461921 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/159.4.1511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The MMS4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was originally identified due to its sensitivity to MMS in vegetative cells. Subsequent studies have confirmed a role for MMS4 in DNA metabolism of vegetative cells. In addition, mms4 diploids were observed to sporulate poorly. This work demonstrates that the mms4 sporulation defect is due to triggering of the meiotic recombination checkpoint. Genetic, physical, and cytological analyses suggest that MMS4 functions after the single end invasion step of meiotic recombination. In spo13 diploids, red1, but not mek1, is epistatic to mms4 for sporulation and spore viability, suggesting that MMS4 may be required only when homologs are capable of undergoing synapsis. MMS4 and MUS81 are in the same epistasis group for spore viability, consistent with biochemical data that show that the two proteins function in a complex. In contrast, MMS4 functions independently of MSH5 in the production of viable spores. We propose that MMS4 is required for the processing of specific recombination intermediates during meiosis.
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- T de los Santos
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Developmental Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5215, USA
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Prior studies have shown that S. cerevisiae rim4 mutations cause reduced expression of a sporulation-specific reporter gene and sporulation. We report here that RIM4 (ORF YHL024W) is a putative RNA-binding protein of the RRM class that is expressed at elevated levels early in meiosis. Mutations in the two RRMs reduce or abolish sporulation and, in some cases, cause reduced Rim4p expression. RIM4 is required for expression of early and middle sporulation-specific genes. Unlike other meiotic regulatory genes, RIM4 is required for full gene activation through both the Ime1p and Ime2p pathways. The rim4Delta defect in activation by Ime2p is suppressed by a hyperactive Ime2p derivative. These observations argue that Rim4p may act upstream of Ime2p, perhaps in a nutritional sensing pathway.
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- M Soushko
- Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Yukawa M, Katoh S, Miyakawa T, Tsuchiya E. Nps1/Sth1p, a component of an essential chromatin-remodeling complex of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for the maximal expression of early meiotic genes. Genes Cells 1999; 4:99-110. [PMID: 10320476 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00242.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The NPS1/STH1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is essential for mitotic growth, especially for the progression through the G2/M phase. It encodes a major component of the chromatin-remodelling complex, RSC, of unknown function. We attempted to address the function of NPS1 in meiosis. RESULTS The homozygote of the temperature sensitive nps1 mutant, nps1-105, showed reduced and delayed levels of sporulation, accompanied with a notable decrease and delay of the expression of several early meiotic genes (IME2, SPO11 and SPO13). Deletion analysis of the IME2 promoter revealed that the defect in the gene expression occurred through the URS1 site. The sporulation defect of nps1-105 was alleviated by the over-expression of either IME1 or IME2. However, over-expression of IME1 did not permit the full expression of IME2, SPO11 and SPO13 in nps1-105. In addition, the expression of NPS1 itself increased transiently upon initiation of meiosis, before the appearance of the IME2 message but after that of IME1. The impaired increase in NPS1 transcription led to inefficient sporulation. CONCLUSION The results suggest that Nps1p/RSC is required for the activation of gene expression at the initiation of meiosis.
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- M Yukawa
- Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan
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de los Santos T, Hollingsworth NM. Red1p, a MEK1-dependent phosphoprotein that physically interacts with Hop1p during meiosis in yeast. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:1783-90. [PMID: 9880561 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.3.1783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a proteinaceous structure formed between pairs of homologous chromosomes during prophase I of meiosis. The proper assembly of axial elements (AEs), lateral components of the SC, during meiosis in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is essential for wild-type levels of recombination and for the accurate segregation of chromosomes at the first meiotic division. Genetic experiments have indicated that the stoichiometry between two meiosis-specific components of AEs in S. cerevisiae, HOP1 and RED1, is critical for proper assembly and function of the SC. A third meiosis-specific gene, MEK1, which encodes a putative serine/threonine protein kinase, is also important for proper AE function, suggesting that AE formation is regulated by phosphorylation. In this paper, we demonstrate that Mek1p is a functional kinase in vitro and that catalytic activity is an essential part of the meiotic function of Mek1 in vivo. Immunoblot analysis revealed that Red1p is a MEK1-dependent phosphoprotein. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments demonstrated that the interaction between Hop1p and Red1p is enhanced by the presence of MEK1. Thus, MEK1-dependent phosphorylation of Red1p facilitates the formation of Hop1p/Red1p hetero-oligomers, thereby enabling the formation of functional AEs.
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- T de los Santos
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5215, USA
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Nakayama H, Izuta M, Nagahashi S, Sihta EY, Sato Y, Yamazaki T, Arisawa M, Kitada K. A controllable gene-expression system for the pathogenic fungus Candida glabrata. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1998; 144 ( Pt 9):2407-2415. [PMID: 9782488 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-9-2407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A system for controlling gene expression was established in the pathogenic fungus Candida glabrata to elucidate the physiological functions of genes. To control the expression of the gene of interest, the C. glabrata cells were first transformed with the plasmid carrying the tetracycline repressor-transactivator fusion tetR::GAL4, then with the DNA fragment containing the controllable cassette, the tetracycline operator chimeric promoter (tetO::ScHOP1). The peptide elongation factor 3 (CgTEF3) and DNA topoisomerase II (CgTOP2) genes from C. glabrata were cloned and their expression assessed using this system. When the promoter of CgTEF3 or CgTOP2 was replaced with tetO::ScHOP1, doxycycline almost completely repressed the expression of both mRNAs, and impaired growth. Repression of the TOP2 or TEF3 gene by doxycycline also hampered the survival of C. glabrata cells in mice; in mouse kidneys the number of C. glabrata cells, in which the TOP2 or TEF3 promoter was replaced with the tetO::ScHOP1 controllable cassette, did not increase when the mice were given doxycycline. Thus, it appears that the gene repression mediated by doxycycline occurred not only in culture media but also in animals; therefore, this system can be used to elucidate the function of the gene in fungal infections and pathogenesis.
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- Hironobu Nakayama
- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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- Department of Mycology, Nippon Roche Research Center,200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247,Japan
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Menéndez J, Gancedo C. Regulatory regions in the promoters of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PYC1 and PYC2 genes encoding isoenzymes of pyruvate carboxylase. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1998; 164:345-52. [PMID: 9682484 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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We have identified regions in the promoters of the PYC1 and PYC2 genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae involved in their regulation in different culture conditions. In the case of PYC1, a UAS in the region between -330/-297 and three repressing sequences with the common central core CCGCC at positions -457, -432 and -399 were identified. Specific binding of nuclear proteins to the -330/-214 DNA fragment was abolished in rtg mutants suggesting a role for the RTG genes in the control of PYC1 expression. In the case of the PYC2 promoter, elimination of a fragment from -417 to -291 brings about a two-fold decrease in the expression in repressed conditions and a similar increase in derepression.
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- J Menéndez
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, C.S.I.C., Unidad de Bioquímica y Genética de Levaduras, Madrid, Spain
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Benni ML, Neigeborn L. Identification of a new class of negative regulators affecting sporulation-specific gene expression in yeast. Genetics 1997; 147:1351-66. [PMID: 9383076 PMCID: PMC1208257 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/147.3.1351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We characterized two yeast loci, MDS3 and PMD1, that negatively regulate sporulation. Initiation of sporulation is mediated by the meiotic activator IME1, which relies on MCK1 for maximal expression. We isolated the MDS3-1 allele (encoding a truncated form of Mds3p) as a suppressor that restores IME1 expression in mck1 mutants. mds3 null mutations confer similar suppression phenotypes as MDS3-1, indicating that Mds3p is a negative regulator of sporulation and the MDS3-1 allele confers a dominant-negative phenotype. PMD1 is predicted to encode a protein sharing significant similarity with Mds3p. mds3 pmd1 double mutants are better suppressors of mck1 than is either single mutant, indicating that Mds3p and Pmd1p function synergistically. Northern blot analysis revealed that suppression is due to increased IME1 transcript accumulation. The roles of Mds3p and Pmd1p are not restricted to the MCK1 pathway because mds3 pmd1 mutations also suppress IME1 expression defects associated with MCK1-independent sporulation mutants. Furthermore, mds3 pmd1 mutants express significant levels of IME1 even in vegetative cells and this unscheduled expression results in premature sporulation. These phenotypes and interactions with RAS2-Val19 suggest that unscheduled derepression of IME1 is probably due to a defect in recognition of nutritional status.
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- M L Benni
- Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854-8020, USA
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Naitou M, Hagiwara H, Hanaoka F, Eki T, Murakami Y. Expression profiles of transcripts from 126 open reading frames in the entire chromosome VI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by systematic northern analyses. Yeast 1997; 13:1275-90. [PMID: 9364751 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(199710)13:13<1275::aid-yea172>3.0.co;2-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Chromosome VI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains 126 open reading frames (ORFs), and the functions of proteins encoded by 80 ORFs are still unknown. In this report, we have systematically examined the expression profiles of all 126 ORFs on chromosome VI under five kinds of growth conditions by quantitative Northern hybridization. A series of Northern analyses and reverse transcription polymerase chain reactions have revealed that more than 64 novel ORFs are transcribed. Two ORFs (YFL059w and YFR011c) are specifically expressed in the presence of galactose. Two ORFs (YFL012w and YFR032c) are specifically transcribed in sporulation. Six ORFs (YFL049w, YFL035c, YFL010c, YFR006w, YFR010w and YFR017c) are abundantly expressed in many growth conditions.
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- M Naitou
- Cellular Physiology Laboratory, Tsukuba Life Science Center, Ibaraki, Japan
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Jackson JC, Lopes JM. The yeast UME6 gene is required for both negative and positive transcriptional regulation of phospholipid biosynthetic gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:1322-9. [PMID: 8614637 PMCID: PMC145798 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.7.1322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, regulation of the phospholipid biosynthetic genes, INO1, CHO1, CHO2 and OPI3, is known to occur at the level of transcript abundance. Derepression in response to inositol deprivation requires the INO2 and INO4 regulatory genes. Repression in response to inositol supplementation requires the OPI1 regulatory gene. Here, we examined the role of the UME6 global negative regulatory gene in expression of the phospholipid biosynthetic genes. These studies were stimulated by the finding that the INO1 promoter included a UME6 cognate cis-acting regulatory sequence (URS1). We found that the UME6 negative regulatory gene was involved in regulation of phospholipid biosynthetic gene expression through two distinct regulatory pathways. One pathway was the direct repression of INO1 expression through the URS1 element. Surprisingly, the UME6 gene was also required for derepression of CHO1, CHO2 and OPI3 gene expression. Consistent with this observation, the UME6 gene was required for wild-type levels of expression of the INO2 positive regulatory gene. Therefore, the UME6 gene has both a negative and a positive role in regulating phospholipid biosynthesis.
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- J C Jackson
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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Budd ME, Campbell JL. Purification and enzymatic and functional characterization of DNA polymerase beta-like enzyme, POL4. expressed during yeast meiosis. Methods Enzymol 1995; 262:108-30. [PMID: 8594342 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(95)62014-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- M E Budd
- Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, USA
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Künzler M, Springer C, Braus GH. Activation and repression of the yeast ARO3 gene by global transcription factors. Mol Microbiol 1995; 15:167-78. [PMID: 7752892 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02231.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The ARO3 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae codes for the phenylalanine-inhibited 3-deoxy-D-arabinoheptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase (EC 4.1.2.15) and is regulated by the general control system of amino acid biosynthesis through a single GCN4-binding site in its promoter. A combined deletion and mutation analysis of the ARO3 promoter region in a delta gcn4-background revealed two additional regulatory systems involved in ARO3 transcription. The ARO3 gene is (i) activated through a sequence element which binds the multifunctional DNA-binding protein ABF1 in vitro and (ii) repressed through an URS1 element, which binds the same protein in vitro as the URS1 element in the CAR1 promoter. Since both the ABF1-binding site and the URS1 element represent cis-acting elements of global transcription regulatory systems in yeast, the ARO3 gene is the first example of a GCN4-regulated gene which is both activated and repressed by global transcription factors. Activation of the ARO3 gene through the ABF1-binding site and repression through the URS1 element seem to be independent of each other and independent of activation by the GCN4 protein.
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- M Künzler
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Biochemie und Genetik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany
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Shefer-Vaida M, Sherman A, Ashkenazi T, Robzyk K, Kassir Y. Positive and negative feedback loops affect the transcription of IME1, a positive regulator of meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS 1995; 16:219-28. [PMID: 7796531 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.1020160302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The IME1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a transcription factor that is required for the expression of meiosis-specific genes. Like many of the genes it regulates, IME1 itself is expressed according to the following complex pattern: barely detectable levels during vegetative growth, and high induced levels under starvation conditions, followed by a subsequent decline in the course of meiosis. This report examines the influence of Ime1 protein on its own expression, demonstrating feedback regulation. Disruption of either IME1 or IME2 leads to constantly increasing levels of Ime1-lacZ expression, under meiotic conditions. This apparent negative regulation is due to cis elements in the IME1 upstream region, which confer transient meiotic expression to heterologous promoter-less genes. A specific DNA/protein complex, whose level is transiently increased under meiotic conditions, is detected on this element. In ime1- diploids, the level of this DNA/protein complex increases, without any decline. These results indicate that the transient expression of IME1 is apparently due to transcriptional regulation. This report also presents evidence suggesting that Ime1p is directly responsible for regulating its own transcription. Positive feedback regulation in mitotic conditions is suggested by the observation that overexpression of Ime1p leads to increased levels of IME1-lacZ. Negative autoregulation in meiotic cultures is demonstrated by the observation that a specific point mutation in IME1, ime1-3, permits expression of meiosis-specific genes, as well as induction of meiosis, but is defective in negative-feedback regulation of IME1.
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- M Shefer-Vaida
- Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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Poch O, Schwob E, de Fraipont F, Camasses A, Bordonné R, Martin RP. RPK1, an essential yeast protein kinase involved in the regulation of the onset of mitosis, shows homology to mammalian dual-specificity kinases. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1994; 243:641-53. [PMID: 8028580 DOI: 10.1007/bf00279573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We report here the sequence of RPK1 (for Regulatory cell Proliferation Kinase), a new Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene coding for a protein with sequence similarities to serine/threonine protein kinases. The protein sequence of 764 amino acids includes an amino-terminal domain (residues 1-410), which may be involved in regulation of the kinase domain (residues 411-764). The catalytic domain of Rpk1 is not closely related to other known yeast protein kinases but exhibits strong homology to a newly discovered group of mammalian kinases (PYT, TTK, esk) with serine/threonine/tyrosine kinase activity. Null alleles of RPK1 are lethal and thus this gene belongs to the small group of yeast protein kinase genes that are essential for cell growth. In addition, eliminating the expression of RPK1 gives rise to the accumulation of non-viable cells with less than a 1 N DNA content suggesting that cells proceed into mitosis without completion of DNA synthesis. Therefore, the Rpk1 kinase may function in a checkpoint control which couples DNA replication to mitosis. The level of the RPK1 transcript is extremely low and constant throughout the mitotic cycle. However it is regulated during cellular differentiation, being decreased in alpha-factor-treated a cells and increased late in meiosis in a/alpha diploids. Taken together, our results suggest that Rpk1 is involved in a pathway that coordinates cell proliferation and differentiation.
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- O Poch
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du C.N.R.S., Strasbourg, France
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Mandel S, Robzyk K, Kassir Y. IME1 gene encodes a transcription factor which is required to induce meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS 1994; 15:139-47. [PMID: 8205723 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.1020150204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Previous studies have shown that the IME1 gene is required for sporulation and the expression of meiosis specific genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, sequence analysis has not revealed the precise functional role of the Ime1 protein. By engineering constructs which express various portions of the Ime1p fused to either the DNA binding or transcriptional activation domains of GAL4, we have conclusively demonstrated that IME1 is a transcription factor, apparently required for sporulation to activate the transcription of meiosis specific genes. The full Ime1p, when fused to the GAL4 DNA binding domain, can both activate GAL1-lacZ expression, and complement ime1-0 (a null allele) for the ability to sporulate, and transcriptionally activate IME2, a meiosis specific gene. As successively larger portions of the encoded Ime1p N-terminus are deleted from the GAL4(bd)-IME1 construct, the encoded fusion proteins retain the ability to complement an ime1 null allele, despite a decreasing ability to activate GAL1-lacZ transcription. However, a fusion construct which retains only the last 45 C-terminal amino acids of IME1 provides neither transcriptional activation of GAL1-lacZ nor complementation of ime1-0. Fusion of a GAL4 activation domain to this portion of IME1, results in a construct with a restored ability to complement an ime1-0 allele. This restored ability is dependent upon galactose induction. We conclude, therefore, that IME1 functions in meiosis as a transcriptional activator.
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- S Mandel
- Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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Meiosis can be viewed both as a process of cell differentiation and as a modification of the mitotic cell cycle. Here we describe recent progress in defining a variety of regulatory mechanisms that govern the meiotic divisions. Studies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in higher organisms have led to complementary insights into these controls.
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- S M Honigberg
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Pittman D, Lu W, Malone RE. Genetic and molecular analysis of REC114, an early meiotic recombination gene in yeast. Curr Genet 1993; 23:295-304. [PMID: 8385581 DOI: 10.1007/bf00310890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Four new meiotic recombination genes were previously isolated by selecting for mutations that rescue the meiotic lethality of rad52 spo13 strains. One of these genes, REC114, is described here, and the data confirm that REC114 is a meiosis-specific recombination gene with no detectable function in mitosis. REC114 is located on chromosome XIII approximately 4.9 cM from CIN4. The nucleotide sequence reveals an open reading frame of 1262 bp, consensus intron splice sites close to the 3' end, and indicates that the second exon codes for only seven amino acids. In the promoter region, a URS1 consensus sequence (TGGGCGGCTA), identical to the URS1 found in the promoter of SPO16, is present 93 bp upstream of the translation start site. Northern-blot hybridization demonstrates that REC114 is transcribed only during meiosis and that it is not expressed in the absence of the IME1 gene product, even when IME2 is constitutively expressed.
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- D Pittman
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242-1324
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Muthukumar G, Suhng SH, Magee PT, Jewell RD, Primerano DA. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SPR1 gene encodes a sporulation-specific exo-1,3-beta-glucanase which contributes to ascospore thermoresistance. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:386-94. [PMID: 8419289 PMCID: PMC196152 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.2.386-394.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A number of genes have been shown to be transcribed specifically during sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yet their developmental function is unknown. The SPR1 gene is transcribed during only the late stages of sporulation. We have sequenced the SPR1 gene and found that it has extensive DNA and protein sequence homology to the S. cerevisiae EXG1 gene which encodes an exo-1,3-beta-glucanase expressed during vegetative growth (C. R. Vasquez de Aldana, J. Correa, P. San Segundo, A. Bueno, A. R. Nebrada, E. Mendez, and F. del Ray, Gene 97:173-182, 1991). We show that spr1 mutant cells do not hydrolyze p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucoside or laminarin in a whole-cell assay for exo-1,3-beta-glucanases. In addition to the absence of this enzymatic activity, spr1 mutant spores exhibit reduced thermoresistance relative to isogenic wild-type spores. These observations are consistent with the notion that SPR1 encodes a sporulation-specific exo-1,3-beta-glucanase.
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- G Muthukumar
- Department of Methods Development and Scale-Up, Enzon, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-3998
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Galbraith AM, Malone RE. Characterization of REC104, a gene required for early meiotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS 1992; 13:392-402. [PMID: 1304422 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.1020130603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The REC104 gene was initially defined by mutations that rescued the inviability of a rad52 spo 13 haploid strain in meiosis. We have observed that rec104 mutant strains undergo essentially no induction of meiotic gene conversion, and we have not been able to detect any meiotic crossing over in such strains. The REC104 gene has no apparent role in mitosis, since mutations have no observable effect on growth, mitotic recombination, or DNA repair. The DNA sequence of REC104 reveals that it is a previously unknown gene with a coding region of 549-bp, and genetic mapping has localized the gene to chromosome VIII near FUR1. Expression of the REC104 gene is induced in meiosis, and it appears that the gene is not transcribed in mitotic cells. Possible roles for the REC104 gene product in meiosis are discussed.
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