High-Resolution Mapping of Spontaneous Mitotic Recombination Hotspots on the 1.1 Mb Arm of Yeast Chromosome IV
Open Access
- 4 April 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Genetics
- Vol. 9 (4), e1003434
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003434
Abstract
Although homologous recombination is an important pathway for the repair of double-stranded DNA breaks in mitotically dividing eukaryotic cells, these events can also have negative consequences, such as loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of deleterious mutations. We mapped about 140 spontaneous reciprocal crossovers on the right arm of the yeast chromosome IV using single-nucleotide-polymorphism (SNP) microarrays. Our mapping and subsequent experiments demonstrate that inverted repeats of Ty retrotransposable elements are mitotic recombination hotspots. We found that the mitotic recombination maps on the two homologs were substantially different and were unrelated to meiotic recombination maps. Additionally, about 70% of the DNA lesions that result in LOH are likely generated during G1 of the cell cycle and repaired during S or G2. We also show that different genetic elements are associated with reciprocal crossover conversion tracts depending on the cell cycle timing of the initiating DSB. Double-strand breaks (DSBs) are DNA lesions that can be fatal to a cell if left unrepaired. They can be caused by exogenous sources, such as gamma radiation, or endogenous stresses, such as high levels of transcription. Yeast cells primarily repair DSBs that are initiated outside of meiosis by mitotic recombination, which can result in physical exchanges between chromosomes, known as crossovers. We created a mitotic recombination map of one chromosome arm, representing 10% of the genome. This recombination map allows us to determine which regions of the chromosome arm are more susceptible to DNA damage than other regions. We were able to determine that most DSBs that result in detectable genomic changes were initiated prior to DNA replication and that some secondary DNA structures can be recombination hotspots. Recombination can also occur during meiosis, as a method of ensuring proper chromosome segregation. However, previously reported meiotic recombination maps have no correlation with our mitotic recombination map.This publication has 50 references indexed in Scilit:
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