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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: DNA Repair (Amst). 2010 Apr 4;9(4):448–457. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.01.010

Table 2.

Spontaneous reversion rates of yeast strains with pms1 mutations

Lys+ Reversion Rate
(× 10−6)
His+ Reversion Rate
(× 10−8)
Conservation among 38
organisms*

Pms1
Genotype
Rate
(95% CI)
Relative
Rate
Rate
(95% CI)
Relative
Rate
Pms1
homologs
Mlh1
homologs
WT 0.093 (0.064–0.13) 1 0.7 (0.5–0.9) 1 - -
Δ 1100 (840–2200) 12,000 43 (33–62) 61 - -
R170E/K172E 530 (430–650) 5,700 22 (21–30) 31 21/26 0/0
K190E 0.15 (0.12–0.22) 2 0.7 (0.4–0.9) 1 38 35
K194E 0.58 (0.39–0.73) 6 1.4 (0.9–1.7) 2 37 35
K197E 83 (59–110) 890 4.1 (2.3–4.8) 6 38 0
R198E 27 (23–31) 290 4.6 (3.1–5.7) 7 38 0
K218E 270 (220–410) 2900 12 (11–20) 17 38 0
K229E 1.1 (0.82–2.0) 12 0.9 (0.6–2.3) 1 29 38
R243E/K244E 93 (75–130) 1,000 5.9 (4.3–7.0) 8 30/6 1/0
R256E 0.22 (0.18–0.34) 2 0.9 (0.7–1.2) 1 5 18
R306E 4.1 (2.0–6.5) 44 1.5 (0.9–2.1) 2 38 0
R311E 5.9 (5.0–13) 63 2.1 (1.4–3.1) 3 37 0
K328E** 11 (8.3–19) 60 3.4 (3.0–7.9) 3 37 37
*

Organisms and NCBI reference sequence numbers for Pms1 and Mlh1 homolgs:

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (NP_014317, NP_013890), Vanderwaltozyma polysporan (XP_001644784, XP_001645690), Candida glabrata (XP_447944, XP_446304), Ashbya gossypii (NP_985276, NP_985351), Kluyveromyces lactis (XP_452705, XP_453504), Penicillium marneffei (XP_002145249, XP_002144802), Podospora anserine (XP_001910360, XP_001910200), Aspergillus fumigatus (XP_755674, XP_753480), Aspergillus clavatus (XP_0001275615, XP_001274465), Coccidioides immitis (XP_0012145606, XP_0012239552), Neosartorya fischeri (XP_001260801, XP_001259525), Aspergillus terreus (XP_001208682, XP_001211278), Magnaporthe grisea (XP_363790, XP_367196), Gibberella zeae (XP_382105, XP_389904), Aspergillus oryzae (XP_001821792, XP_001824017), Tribolium castaneum (XP_974934, XP_972898), Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (XP_001589152, XP_001590867), Aspergillus niger (XP_001399369, XP_001398763), Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (XP_786592, XP_793318), Bos Taurus (XP_605426, XP_001790604), Populus trichocarpa (XP_002321013, XP_002325965), Mus musculus (NP_032912, NP_002400), Aspergillus nidulans (XP_663920, XP_657730), Canis familiaris (XP_536879, XP_534219), Homo sapiens (NP_000526, NP_000240), Danio rerio (XP_693648, NP_002165510, XP_002156705), Trichoplax adhaerens (XP_002110081, XP_002111226), Pan troglodytes (XP_001141671, XP_001170390), Equus caballus (XP_001494013, XP_001489268), Acyrthosiphon pisum (XP_001947410, XP_001945011), Oryza sativa (NP_001047292, NP_001045457), Monodelphis domestica (XP_001377577, XP_001362893), Arabidopsis thaliana (NP_567236, NP_567345), Anopheles gambiae (XP_308635, XP_320342), Schizosaccharomyces pombe (NP_594417,NP_596199) and Rattus novergicus (NP_001099378, NP_112315).

**

From [38].

Mutation rates were measured as described in Materials and Methods. Rates are the median for 12 independent cultures.