Persistent Heteroplasmic Cells for Mitochondrial Genes in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

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Journal Curr Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 2013 Nov 1

PMID 24173456

Citations 3

Authors

L G Treat-Clemmonsi

C W Birky Jr

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Abstract

Genes in mitochondria and chloroplasts segregate rapidly during vegetative reproduction. Models to explain this vegetative segregation invoke either random segregation of organelle DNA molecules, or nonrandom segregation with random recombination events. All such models are basically stochastic. To look at vegetative segregation we took heteroplasmic (HET) cells containing mitochondrial mutations at the cap1, eryl and olil loci from several crosses. HETs were repeatedly selected and subcloned. Even after three to five successive subclonings (approximately 60-100 generations) some cells remained heteroplasmic. This confirms and extends previous observations of persistent HETs by Rank and Bech-Hansen (1972) and Forster and Kleese (1975), and by Bolen et al. (1980) for chloroplast genes in Chlamydomonas.

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