RRC ID 33605
著者 Jakočiūnas T, Holm LR, Verhein-Hansen J, Trusina A, Thon G.
タイトル Two portable recombination enhancers direct donor choice in fission yeast heterochromatin.
ジャーナル PLoS Genet
Abstract Mating-type switching in fission yeast results from gene conversions of the active mat1 locus by heterochromatic donors. mat1 is preferentially converted by mat2-P in M cells and by mat3-M in P cells. Here, we report that donor choice is governed by two portable recombination enhancers capable of promoting use of their adjacent cassette even when they are transposed to an ectopic location within the mat2-mat3 heterochromatic domain. Cells whose silent cassettes are swapped to mat2-M mat3-P switch mating-type poorly due to a defect in directionality but cells whose recombination enhancers were transposed together with the cassette contents switched like wild type. Trans-acting mutations that impair directionality affected the wild-type and swapped cassettes in identical ways when the recombination enhancers were transposed together with their cognate cassette, showing essential regulatory steps occur through the recombination enhancers. Our observations lead to a model where heterochromatin biases competitions between the two recombination enhancers to achieve directionality.
巻・号 9(10)
ページ e1003762
公開日 2013-10-1
DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003762
PII PGENETICS-D-13-00490
PMID 24204285
PMC PMC3812072
MeSH Enhancer Elements, Genetic* Gene Conversion Genes, Mating Type, Fungal / genetics* Heterochromatin / genetics* Humans Recombination, Genetic* Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid / genetics Schizosaccharomyces / genetics
IF 5.175
引用数 12
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY
リソース情報
遺伝子材料 pDUAL2-HFC1c (RDB06160) S. pombe YFP-FLAG-His SpYFH50E05 (SPW100101)