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ArticleGenetics1997

Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana hypersensitive to DNA-damaging treatments.

J E Masson, P J King, J Paszkowski

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Article in Genetics, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Plant DNA recombinases: a long way to go.Journal of nucleic acids · 2010
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  3. Repair of damaged bases.The arabidopsis book · 2002
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  6. Stimulation of homologous recombination in plants by expression of the bacterial resolvase ruvC.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1999
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  8. Arabidopsis thaliana mutants altered in homologous recombination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1997
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J E MassonFriedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland. masson@fmi.ch
P J King
J Paszkowski
Friedrich Miescher Institute · CHFriedrich Miescher Institute · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A simple screening method was developed for the isolation of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants hypersensitive to X-ray irradiation. The root meristem was used as the target for irradiation with sublethal doses of X rays, while protection of the shoot meristem by a lead cover allowed the rescue of hypersensitive individuals. We isolated nine independent X-ray-hypersensitive mutants from 7000 M2 seedlings. Analysis of three chosen mutants (xrs4, xrs9 and xrs11) showed that alterations in single recessive alleles are responsible for their phenotypes. The mutations are not allelic but linked and map to chromosome 4, suggesting mutations in novel genes as compared to previously mapped mutant alleles. Importantly, hypersensitivity to X rays was found to correlate with hypersensitivity to the DNA-alkylating agent mitomycin C, which provokes interstrand crosslinks, and/or to methyl methanesulfonate, which is known as a radiomimetic chemical. These novel phenotypes suggest that the mutants described here are altered in the repair of DNA damage, most probably by recombinational repair.

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DNA DamageMutationArabidopsisChromosome MappingMutagensPhenotypeMutagens

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PMID9136028
PMCPMC1207955
OpenAlexW1748623371

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