title: A Whole Genome Screen for Minisatellite Stability Genes in Stationary-Phase Yeast Cells.
abstract: Repetitive elements comprise a significant portion of most eukaryotic genomes. Minisatellites, a type of repetitive element composed of repeat units 15-100 bp in length, are stable in actively dividing cells but change in composition during meiosis and in stationary-phase cells. Alterations within minisatellite tracts have been correlated with the onset of a variety of diseases, including diabetes mellitus, myoclonus epilepsy, and several types of cancer. However, little is known about the factors preventing minisatellite alterations. Previously, our laboratory developed a color segregation assay in which a minisatellite was inserted into the ADE2 gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to monitor alteration events. We demonstrated that minisatellite alterations that occur in stationary-phase cells give rise to a specific colony morphology phenotype known as blebbing. Here, we performed a modified version of the synthetic genetic array analysis to screen for mutants that produce a blebbing phenotype. Screens were conducted using two distinctly different minisatellite tracts: the ade2-min3 construct consisting of three identical 20-bp repeats, and the ade2-h7.5 construct, consisting of seven-and-a-half 28-bp variable repeats. Mutations in 102 and 157 genes affect the stability of the ade2-min3 and ade2-h7.5 alleles, respectively. Only seven hits overlapped both screens, indicating that different factors regulate repeat stability depending upon minisatellite size and composition. Importantly, we demonstrate that mismatch repair influences the stability of the ade2-h7.5 allele, indicating that this type of DNA repair stabilizes complex minisatellites in stationary phase cells. Our work provides insight into the factors regulating minisatellite stability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
authors.forename: Bonnie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alver
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Jauert
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brosnan
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Hehir
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
authors.forename: Benjamin
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authors.lastname: VanderSluis
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
authors.forename: Chad L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 dkirkpat@umn.edu.
authors.forename: David T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
keywords: DNA stability; G0; quiescence; stationary phase
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