title: Mutations in recombinational repair and in checkpoint control genes suppress the lethal combination of srs2Delta with other DNA repair genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: The SRS2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a DNA helicase that is active in the postreplication repair pathway and homologous recombination. srs2 mutations are lethal in a rad54Delta background and cause poor growth or lethality in rdh54Delta, rad50Delta, mre11Delta, xrs2Delta, rad27Delta, sgs1Delta, and top3Delta backgrounds. Some of these genotypes are known to be defective in double-strand break repair. Many of these lethalities or poor growth can be suppressed by mutations in other genes in the DSB repair pathway, namely rad51, rad52, rad55, and rad57, suggesting that inhibition of recombination at a prior step prevents formation of a lethal intermediate. Lethality of the srs2Delta rad54Delta and srs2Delta rdh54Delta double mutants can also be rescued by mutations in the DNA damage checkpoint functions RAD9, RAD17, RAD24, and MEC3, indicating that the srs2 rad54 and srs2 rdh54 mutant combinations lead to an intermediate that is sensed by these checkpoint functions. When the checkpoints are intact the cells never reverse from the arrest, but loss of the checkpoints releases the arrest. However, cells do not achieve wild-type growth rates, suggesting that unrepaired damage is still present and may lead to chromosome loss.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA. hannah.klein@med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000235:genetics*; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics; D004249:DNA Damage; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000235:genetics*; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000235:genetics*; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes; D026942:DNA Topoisomerases; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D009154:Mutation; D010641:Phenotype; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D013489:Suppression, Genetic
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C086930:RAD50 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C086929:XRS2 protein, S cerevisiae; C061376:SRS2 protein, S cerevisiae; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; C094191:MRE11 protein, S cerevisiae; C075468:RAD54 protein, S cerevisiae; D004265:DNA Helicases; D026942:DNA Topoisomerases; C541336:RDH54 protein, S cerevisiae; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes