The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD30 gene, a homologue of Escherichia coli dinB and umuC, is DNA damage inducible and functions in a novel error-free postreplication repair mechanism.
Damage-inducible mutagenesis in prokaryotes is largely dependent upon the activity of the UmuD'C-like proteins. Since many DNA repair processes are structurally and/or functionally conserved between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, we investigated the role of RAD30, a previously uncharacterized Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA repair gene related to the Escherichia coli dinB, umuC and S. cerevisiae REV1 genes, in UV resistance and UV-induced mutagenesis. Similar to its prokaryotic homologues, RAD30 was found to be damage inducible. Like many S. cerevisiae genes involved in error-prone DNA repair, epistasis analysis clearly places RAD30 in the RAD6 group and rad30 mutants display moderate UV sensitivity reminiscent of rev mutants. However, unlike rev mutants, no defect in UV-induced reversion was seen in rad30 strains. While rad6 and rad18 are both epistatic to rad30, no epistasis was observed with rev1, rev3, rev7 or rad5, all of which are members of the RAD6 epistasis group. These findings suggest that RD30 participates in a novel error-free repair pathway dependent on RAD6 and RAD18, but independent of REV1, REV3, REV7 and RAD5.
McDonald
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Section on DNA Replication, Repair and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2725, USA.
Levine
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D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004249:DNA Damage; D004265:DNA Helicases; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology; D004261:DNA Replication; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; D004843:Epistasis, Genetic; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008025:Ligases / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D012331:RNA, Fungal; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000528:radiation effects; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C094399:DinB protein, E coli; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D012331:RNA, Fungal; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C078202:UmuC protein, E coli; C471606:RAD6 protein, S cerevisiae; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; C076225:RAD5 protein, S cerevisiae; D004265:DNA Helicases; D008025:Ligases