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ArticleGenetics2015

Elevated Genome-Wide Instability in Yeast Mutants Lacking RNase H Activity.

Karen O'Connell, Sue Jinks-Robertson, Thomas D Petes

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Article in Genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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53citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Synthetic lethal mutants inJournal of bacteriology · 2023
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  2. Detection of "hidden" mitotic crossovers by long-read DNA sequencing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Mitotic recombination events and single-base mutations induced by ultraviolet light in G1-arrested yeast cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  18. Global genomic instability caused by reduced expression of DNA polymerase ε in yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  19. Mitotic recombination in yeast: what we know and what we don't know.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karen O'ConnellDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
Sue Jinks-RobertsonDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710 tom.petes@duke.edu sue.robertson@duke.edu.
Thomas D PetesDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710 tom.petes@duke.edu sue.robertson@duke.edu.
Duke University · US

Funding

RECOMBINATION IN YEASTR01GM024110 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PETES, THOMAS · 1985 to 2015
$6.1M
INSTABILITY OF SIMPLE REPETITIVE DNA SEQUENCES IN YEASTR01GM052319 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PETES, THOMAS · 1995 to 2015
$4.9M
REGULATION OF MITOTIC RECOMBINATION IN YEASTR01GM038464 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JINKS-ROBERTSON, SUE · 1992 to 2015
$3.6M
Topoisomerase 1 and mutagenesis in yeastR01GM101690 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JINKS-ROBERTSON, SUE · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
RECOMBINATION BETWEEN REPEATED SEQUENCE IN YEASTR29GM038464 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JINKS-ROBERTSON, SUE · 1987 to 1991
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM038464NIGMS NIH HHS GM101690NIGMS NIH HHS GM24110NIGMS NIH HHS GM52319NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM024110NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM038464NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052319NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two types of RNA:DNA associations can lead to genome instability: the formation of R-loops during transcription and the incorporation of ribonucleotide monophosphates (rNMPs) into DNA during replication. Both ribonuclease (RNase) H1 and RNase H2 degrade the RNA component of R-loops, whereas only RNase H2 can remove one or a few rNMPs from DNA. We performed high-resolution mapping of mitotic recombination events throughout the yeast genome in diploid strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking RNase H1 (rnh1Δ), RNase H2 (rnh201Δ), or both RNase H1 and RNase H2 (rnh1Δ rnh201Δ). We found little effect on recombination in the rnh1Δ strain, but elevated recombination in both the rnh201Δ and the double-mutant strains; levels of recombination in the double mutant were ∼50% higher than in the rnh201 single-mutant strain. An rnh201Δ mutant that additionally contained a mutation that reduces rNMP incorporation by DNA polymerase ε (pol2-M644L) had a level of instability similar to that observed in the presence of wild-type Pol ε. This result suggests that the elevated recombination observed in the absence of only RNase H2 is primarily a consequence of R-loops rather than misincorporated rNMPs.

Indexed as

Genomic InstabilityLoss of HeterozygosityChromosomes, FungalDNA, FungalDNA ReplicationMutationNucleic Acid ConformationRecombination, GeneticRibonuclease HRibonucleasesRNA, FungalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsDNA, FungalRibonuclease Hribonuclease HIRibonucleasesRNA, FungalRnh201 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsloss of heterozygositymicroarraysmitotic recombinationRNase H1RNase H2

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PMID26400613
PMCPMC4649664
OpenAlexW2173937659

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