Aboussekhra A, Chanet R, Zgaga Z, Cassier-Chauvat C, Heude M, Fabre F
Institut Curie-Biologie, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1989 Sep 25;17(18):7211-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.18.7211.
A new type of radiation-sensitive mutant of S. cerevisiae is described. The recessive radH mutation sensitizes to the lethal effect of UV radiations haploids in the G1 but not in the G2 mitotic phase. Homozygous diploids are as sensitive as G1 haploids. The UV-induced mutagenesis is depressed, while the induction of gene conversion is increased. The mutation is believed to channel the repair of lesions engaged in the mutagenic pathway into a recombination process, successful if the events involve sister-chromatids but lethal if they involve homologous chromosomes. The sequence of the RADH gene reveals that it may code for a DNA helicase, with a Mr of 134 kDa. All the consensus domains of known DNA helicases are present. Besides these consensus regions, strong homologies with the Rep and UvrD helicases of E. coli were found. The RadH putative helicase appears to belong to the set of proteins involved in the error-prone repair mechanism, at least for UV-induced lesions, and could act in coordination with the Rev3 error-prone DNA polymerase.
本文描述了一种新型的酿酒酵母辐射敏感突变体。隐性radH突变使处于G1期而非G2有丝分裂期的单倍体对紫外线辐射的致死效应敏感。纯合二倍体与G1单倍体一样敏感。紫外线诱导的诱变作用受到抑制,而基因转换的诱导作用增强。据信该突变将参与诱变途径的损伤修复导向重组过程,如果事件涉及姐妹染色单体则成功,但如果涉及同源染色体则致死。RADH基因的序列显示它可能编码一种DNA解旋酶,分子量为134 kDa。已知DNA解旋酶的所有共有结构域均存在。除了这些共有区域外,还发现与大肠杆菌的Rep和UvrD解旋酶有很强的同源性。RadH推定的解旋酶似乎属于参与易错修复机制的蛋白质组,至少对于紫外线诱导的损伤而言,并且可能与Rev3易错DNA聚合酶协同作用。