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. 1983 Aug;104(4):583–601. doi: 10.1093/genetics/104.4.583

Meiotic DNA Metabolism in Wild-Type and Excision-Deficient Yeast following Uv Exposure

Michael A Resnick 1,2, Stanley Stasiewicz 1,2, John C Game 1,2
PMCID: PMC1202128  PMID: 6352404

Abstract

The effects of UV irradiation on DNA metabolism during meiosis have been examined in wild-type (RAD+) and mitotically defined excision-defective (rad1-1) strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that exhibit high levels of sporulation. The rad1-1 gene product is not required for normal meiosis: DNA synthesis, RNA synthesis, size of parental and newly synthesized DNA and sporulation are comparable in RAD+ and rad1-1 strains. Cells were UV irradiated at the beginning of meiosis, and the fate of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers as well as changes in DNA and DNA synthesis were followed during meiosis. Excision repair of pyrimidine dimers can occur during meiosis and the RAD1 gene product is required; alternate excision pathways do not exist. Although the rate of elongation is decreased, the presence of pyrimidine dimers during meiosis in the rad1-1 strain does not block meiotic DNA synthesis suggesting a bypass mechanism. The final size of DNA is about five times the distance between pyrimidine dimers after exposure to 4 J/m2. Since pyrimidine dimers induced in parental strands of rad1-1 prior to premeiotic DNA synthesis do not become associated with newly synthesized DNA, the mechanism for replicational bypass does not appear to involve a recombinational process. The absence of such association indicates that normal meiotic recombination is also suppressed by UV-induced damage in DNA; this result at the molecular level is supported by observations at the genetic level.

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