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ArticleMolecular cell2010

Mus81 and Yen1 promote reciprocal exchange during mitotic recombination to maintain genome integrity in budding yeast.

Chu Kwen Ho, Gerard Mazón, Alicia F Lam, Lorraine S Symington

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Article in Molecular cell, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chu Kwen HoDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Gerard Mazón
Alicia F Lam
Lorraine S Symington
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Homologous Recombination in YeastR01GM041784 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI SYMINGTON, LORRAINE S · 1989 to 2017
$7.8M
MECHANISMS OF DOUBLE STRAND BREAK REPAIR IN YEASTR01GM054099 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SYMINGTON, LORRAINE S · 1997 to 2009
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM041784NIGMS NIH HHS GM054099NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM041784NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM054099
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Holliday junction (HJ) resolution is required for segregation of chromosomes and for formation of crossovers during homologous recombination. The identity of the resolvase(s) that functions in vivo has yet to be established, although several proteins able to cut HJs in vitro have been identified as candidates in yeasts and mammals. Using an assay to detect unselected products of mitotic recombination, we found a significant decrease in crossovers in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mus81Δ mutant. Yen1 serves a backup function responsible for resolving intermediates in mus81Δ mutants, or when conversion tracts are short. In the absence of both Mus81 and Yen1, intermediates are not channeled exclusively to noncrossover recombinants, but instead are processed by Pol32-dependent break-induced replication (BIR). The channeling of recombination from reciprocal exchange to BIR results in greatly increased spontaneous loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and chromosome mis-segregation in the mus81Δ yen1Δ mutant, typical of the genomic instability found in tumor cells.

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Genomic InstabilityDNA-Binding ProteinsEndonucleasesGenome, FungalHolliday Junction ResolvasesMitosisMutationRecombination, GeneticSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsEndonucleasesHolliday Junction ResolvasesMUS81 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsYen1 protein, S cerevisiae

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PMID21172663
PMCPMC3021384
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