title: Instability of the human minisatellite CEB1 in rad27Delta and dna2-1 replication-deficient yeast cells.
abstract: Convergent studies in human and yeast model systems have shown that some minisatellite loci are relatively stable in somatic cells but not in the germline, and little is known about the mechanism(s) that can destabilize them. Unlike microsatellite sequences, mini satellites are not destabilized by mismatch repair mutations. We report here that the absence of Rad27 and Dna2 functions but not RNase H(35) or Exo1, which play an essential role in the processing of Okazaki fragments during replication, destabilize the human minisatellite CEB1 in mitotically growing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, up to 14% per generation in rad27Delta cells. Analysis using minisatellite variant repeat mapping by polymerase chain reaction of the internal structure of 17 variants reveals that the majority of rearrangements in rad27Delta cells are extremely complex contraction events that contain deletions, often accompanied by duplications of motif unit. Altogether, these results suggest that the improperly processed 5' flap structures that accumulate when replication is impaired can act as a potent stimulator of minisatellite destabilization and can provoke an unexpectedly broad range of mutagenic events. This replication-dependent phenomenon differs from the recombination-induced instability in yeast meiotic cells.
authors.affiliation: Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, CNRS UMR144, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Debrauwère
authors.forename: Jérôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buard
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nicolas
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004265:DNA Helicases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004260:DNA Repair; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000235:genetics*; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D045585:Flap Endonucleases; D006801:Humans; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: C022262:Okazaki fragments; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D004247:DNA; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D045585:Flap Endonucleases; C468317:FEN1 protein, human; C468323:RAD27 protein, S cerevisiae; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D004265:DNA Helicases; C410222:DNA2 protein, S cerevisiae