High frequency excision of Ty elements during transformation of yeast.

AUTOR(ES)

Tschumper, G

RESUMO

Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) transposons (Ty elements) are excised from up to 20% of supercoiled plasmids during transformation of yeast cells. The excision occurs by homologous recombination across the direct terminal repeats (deltas) of the Ty element, leaving behind a single delta in the transforming plasmid. Only the initial transforming plasmid is susceptible to excision, and no high frequency excision is observed in plasmids that have become established in transformed cells or in plasmids that are resident in cells undergoing transformation. High frequency excision from plasmids during yeast transformation is not specific for Ty elements and can be observed with other segments of plasmid DNA bounded by direct repeats. The frequency of Ty excision from supercoiled plasmids is greatly reduced when the host yeast cells contain the rad52 mutation, a defect in double-strand DNA repair. When linear or ligated-linear plasmid DNAs containing a Ty element are used for transformation, few or no excision plasmids are found among the transformant colonies. These results suggest that when a yeast cell is transformed with a supercoiled plasmid, the plasmid DNA is highly susceptible to homologous recombination for a short period of time.

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