Scheifele LZ, et al. (2009) Retrotransposon overdose and genome integrity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(33):13927-32
Abstract: Yeast and mammalian genomes are replete with nearly identical copies of long dispersed repeats in the form of retrotransposons. Mechanisms clearly exist to maintain genome structure in the face of potential rearrangement between the dispersed repeats, but the nature of this machinery is poorly understood. Here we describe a series of distinct "retrotransposon overdose" (RO) lineages in which the number of Ty1 elements in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome has been increased by as much as 10 fold. Although these RO strains are remarkably normal in growth rate, they demonstrate an intrinsic supersensitivity to DNA-damaging agents. We describe the identification of mutants in the DNA replication pathway that enhance this RO-specific DNA damage supersensitivity by promoting ectopic recombination between Ty1 elements. Abrogation of normal DNA replication leads to rampant genome instability primarily in the form of chromosomal aberrations and confirms the central role of DNA replication accuracy in the stabilization of repetitive DNA.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 19666515 |
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