Sia E A, Kokoska R J, Dominska M, Greenwell P, Petes T D
Department of Biology and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-3280, USA.
Mol Cell Biol. 1997 May;17(5):2851-8. doi: 10.1128/MCB.17.5.2851.
We examined the stability of microsatellites of different repeat unit lengths in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains deficient in DNA mismatch repair. The msh2 and msh3 mutations destabilized microsatellites with repeat units of 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8 bp; a poly(G) tract of 18 bp was destabilized several thousand-fold by the msh2 mutation and about 100-fold by msh3. The msh6 mutations destabilized microsatellites with repeat units of 1 and 2 bp but had no effect on microsatellites with larger repeats. These results argue that coding sequences containing repetitive DNA tracts will be preferred target sites for mutations in human tumors with mismatch repair defects. We find that the DNA mismatch repair genes destabilize microsatellites with repeat units from 1 to 13 bp but have no effect on the stability of minisatellites with repeat units of 16 or 20 bp. Our data also suggest that displaced loops on the nascent strand, resulting from DNA polymerase slippage, are repaired differently than loops on the template strand.
我们研究了酿酒酵母中不同重复单元长度的微卫星在DNA错配修复缺陷菌株中的稳定性。msh2和msh3突变使重复单元为1、2、4、5和8个碱基对的微卫星不稳定;msh2突变使18个碱基对的聚(G)序列不稳定数千倍,msh3使其不稳定约100倍。msh6突变使重复单元为1和2个碱基对的微卫星不稳定,但对具有较大重复序列的微卫星没有影响。这些结果表明,含有重复DNA序列的编码序列将是错配修复缺陷的人类肿瘤中突变的首选靶位点。我们发现,DNA错配修复基因使重复单元为1至13个碱基对的微卫星不稳定,但对重复单元为16或20个碱基对的小卫星的稳定性没有影响。我们的数据还表明,由DNA聚合酶滑动导致的新生链上的取代环与模板链上的环修复方式不同。