An Assay to Study Intra-Chromosomal Deletions in Yeast

Autor: Bailey E. Lucas, Matthew T. McPherson, Tila M. Hawk, Lexia N. Wilson, Jacob M. Kroh, Kyle G. Hickman, Sean R. Fitzgerald, W. Miguel Disbennett, P. Daniel Rollins, Hannah M. Hylton, Mohammed A. Baseer, Paige N. Montgomery, Jian-Qiu Wu, Ruben C. Petreaca
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Methods and Protocols, Vol 2, Iss 3, p 74 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2409-9279
DOI: 10.3390/mps2030074
Popis: An accurate DNA damage response pathway is critical for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Repair may occur by homologous recombination, of which many different sub-pathways have been identified. Some recombination pathways are conservative, meaning that the chromosome sequences are preserved, and others are non-conservative, leading to some alteration of the DNA sequence. We describe an in vivo genetic assay to study non-conservative intra-chromosomal deletions at regions of non-tandem direct repeats in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. This assay can be used to study both spontaneous breaks arising during DNA replication and induced double-strand breaks created with the S. cerevisiae homothallic endonuclease (HO). The preliminary genetic validation of this assay shows that spontaneous breaks require rad52+ but not rad51+, while induced breaks require both genes, in agreement with previous studies. This assay will be useful in the field of DNA damage repair for studying mechanisms of intra-chromosomal deletions.
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