Role of DNA Repair in Ethyl Methanesulfonate-induced Mutagenesis in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

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Journal Carcinogenesis

Specialty Oncology

Date 1982 Jan 1

PMID 7046978

Citations 11

Authors

L Prakash

D Higgins

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Abstract

Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-induced reversion of two sites which revert preferentially by GC to AT transitions, cycl-131 and cycl-115, has been examined in readiation sensitive, rad, mutants of yeast belonging to the rad52 epistasis group. The rad50, rad51, rad52, rad54 and rad56 mutants showed reducted reversion of both tester sites when stationary phase diploid cells were treated with EMS. No correlation was found between EMS-induced reversion and EMS-induced homologous mitotic intragenic recombination. Survival of rad6 rad52 double mutants following EMS treatment indicates that there is one epistasis group for the repair of EMS-induced lethal damage in yeast. A model involving misrepair mutagenesis of specific lesions is proposed to account for the experimental results.

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