title: Loss of heterozygosity and DNA damage repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of tumor suppressor genes is a crucial step in the development of sporadic and hereditary cancer. Understanding how LOH events arise may provide an opportunity for the prevention or early intervention of cancer development. In an effort to investigate the source of LOH events, we constructed MATalphacan1Delta::LEU2 and MATa CAN1 haploid yeast strains and examined canavanine-resistance mutations in a MATa CAN1/MATalphacan1Delta::LEU2 heterozygote formed by mating UV-irradiated and nonirradiated haploids. An increase in LOH was observed when the irradiated CAN1 haploid was mated with nonirradiated can1Delta::LEU2, while reversed irradiation only marginally increased LOH. In the rad51Delta background, allelic crossover type LOH increased following UV irradiation but not gene conversion. In the rad52Delta background, neither type of LOH increased. The chromosome structure following LOH and the requirement for Rad51 and Rad52 proteins indicated the involvement of gene conversion, allelic crossover and break-induced replication. We argued that LOH events could have occurred during the repair of double-strand breaks on a functional (damaged) but not nonfunctional (undamaged) chromosome through recombination.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasukazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Daigaku
authors.forename: Kingo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Eri
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004249:DNA Damage; D017931:DNA Primers; D004260:DNA Repair; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers