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ReviewCurrent genetics2019

Insights into the DNA sequence elements required for partitioning and copy number control of the yeast 2-micron plasmid.

Mary E McQuaid, Anastasiia Mereshchuk, Melanie J Dobson

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Review in Current genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 authors.

Mary E McQuaidDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Anastasiia MereshchukDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Melanie J DobsonDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada. dobson@dal.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9291-7200

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 155268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The yeast 2-micron plasmid is an almost perfect selfish DNA. The entire coding capacity of the plasmid is dedicated to ensuring its own inheritance, with no benefit to its host. Despite high copy number, the plasmid confers no phenotype. It manages this feat by possessing mechanisms for plasmid copy-number control and for partitioning. The former increases plasmid numbers when they fall, but is repressed at high copy number, while the latter ensures 2-micron copies are equally partitioned during host cell division. Although the plasmid amplification mechanism is well established, the partitioning system and the means by which the 2-micron plasmid partitioning proteins, Rep1 and Rep2, regulate plasmid copy number remain incompletely understood. This review focuses on recent efforts to determine the nature of Rep protein complexes formed at the plasmid stability locus (STB) and at plasmid gene promoters, the identity of DNA sequence elements required for Rep protein association, and the mechanism by which the Rep proteins manage their dual roles of plasmid partitioning and plasmid gene repression.

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Base SequenceCell DivisionChromosome SegregationDNA Copy Number VariationsDNA, FungalDNA ReplicationPlasmidsRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsDNA, FungalREP1 protein, S cerevisiaeREP2 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsBudding yeastChromosome segregationPlasmid partitioningRep proteins

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