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The influence of the DNA repair genePSO3 on photoactivated psoralen-induced meiotic recombination, gene conversion, reverse mutation, and on survival, was assayed in diploid strains ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae homozygous for the wild-type or thepso3-1 mutant allele. Sporulation was normal in thepso3-1 diploid. Wild-type and mutant strains had the same sensitivity to photoactivated monofunctional psoralen (3-CPs+UVA) in meiosis-uncommitted and meiosis-committed stages. The mutant showed higher sensitivity to photoactivated bifunctional psoralen (8-MOP+UVA) during all stages of the meiotic cycle. Mutation induction by 3-CPs+UVA or 8-MOP+UVA in meiosis-committed cells revealed no significant differences between wild-type and thepso3-1 mutant. The status of thePSO3 gene has no influence on the kinetics of induction of gene conversion and crossing-over after 3-CPs+UVA treatment in meiosis-committed cells: gene conversion was blocked while recombination was induced. After treatment with 8-MOP+UVA gene conversion was also blocked in both strains while crossing-over could only be observed in meiosis-committed wild-type cells.
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Pothin, H.S., da Silva, K.V.C.L., Brendel, M. et al. Genetic effects of photoactivated psoralens during meiosis in DNA repair mutantpso3-1 ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae . Curr Genet 25, 19–23 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00712961
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