The RAD6 DNA repair pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: what does it do, and how does it do it?
The RAD6 pathway of budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is responsible for a substantial fraction of this organism's resistance to DNA damage, and also for induced mutagenesis. The pathway appears to incorporate two different recovery processes, both regulated by RAD6. The error-prone recovery process accounts for only a small amount of RAD6-dependent resistance, but probably all induced mutagenesis. The underlying mechanism for error-prone recovery is very likely to be translesion synthesis. The error-free recovery process accounts for most of RAD6-dependent resistance, but its mechanism is less clear; it may entail error-free bypass by template switching and/or DNA gap filling by recombination. RAD6 regulates these activities by ubiquitinating target proteins, but the identities of these target proteins, and the roles they play in error-free and error-prone recovery, have not yet been established.
Department of Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642-8408.
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D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000528:radiation effects; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008025:Ligases / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009154:Mutation; D011836:Radiation Tolerance / Q000235:genetics; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes
D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C471606:RAD6 protein, S cerevisiae; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes; D008025:Ligases