Table 1.

orb6 gene dosage effects

Strain	Plasmid	Cell length at division*	% wt length
(1) leu1-32	Multicopy plasmid (Rep3X)	14.6  ± 1.0	100%
(1) leu1-32	Integrant nmt1 orb6HA	17.8  ± 1.9	121%
(1) leu1-32	Multicopy nmt1 orb6HA	26.6  ± 4.9	181%
(1) leu1-32	Multicopy nmt1 orb6HA ala122	13.7  ± 2.7	93%
(2) leu1-32	Multicopy plasmid (Rep3X)	14.2  ± 1.0	100%
(2) leu1-32	Multicopy nmt1 orb6HA	28.9  ± 5.0	203%
Δorb6	Integrant nmt1 orb6HA	18.0  ± 1.3	122%
Δorb6	Integrant nmt1 orb6HA (+th., 5h.)	12.4  ± 0.7	84%
Δorb6	Integrant nmt1 orb6HA (+th., 7.5h.)	9.5  ± 0.6	65%
leu1-32	Multicopy nmt1 orb6HA	20.0  ± 5.6	137%
wee1-50 leu1-32	Multicopy plasmid (Rep3X)	7.4  ± 0.9	50%
wee1-50 leu1-32	Multicopy nmt1 orb6HA	7.5  ± 0.9	51%

^*Thirty cells at division were measured for each sample. The mean values ± SD are shown.