A palindromic mutation of the linear killer plasmid k2 of yeast.

AUTOR(ES)

Wésolowski-Louvel, M

RESUMO

Production of the killer toxin in Kluyveromyces lactis is dependent on the presence of two linear DNA plasmids, k1 and k2. We isolated a non-killer mutant, VM5, with a modified plasmid composition. It had lost k1, but conserved k2, and acquired, in addition, three new DNA species. The new species were found to be rearranged derivatives of the k2 plasmid. One of them, pVM5-1, was made of the left terminal 4720 bp sequence of k2, including the inverted terminal repeat, and was organized as a large palindromic dimer molecule. The second, pVM5-2, was made of one strand of the pVM5-1 palindrome, folded into a hairpin structure. Like normal k2, pVM5-1 and 2 were present in a high copy number. The third species, pVM5-x, of variable size, was also a deletion product of k2, but not palindromic, and did not contain the terminal repeat. Genetic analysis showed that the presence of the palindromic derivatives appeared to destabilize the normal k2 genome, leading to gradual accumulation of plasmid-less cells.

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