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. 2010 Jul 22;6(7):e1001032. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001032

Figure 9. γH2A-Brc1 interactions are crucial for genome stability during unperturbed growth in the absence of Rqh1.

Figure 9

(A) Genetic interactions of rqh1Δ mutant with htaAQ, brc1Δ, and brc1-T672A. Five-fold serial dilutions of indicated strains were spotted on YES medium or YES with 2 mM HU and 1 µM CPT. Pictures were taken after 3 days at 30°C. (B) Tetrad dissection of brc1-T672A mutant crossed with rqh1Δ showing two dissected asci. The double mutant (pentagon) has strong synthetic growth defects compared to either parental strain. (C) The loss of Rqh1 function in the htaAQ, brc1Δ, or brc1-T672A mutants leads to cell elongation, chromosome segregations defects and higher levels of aberrant mitosis (indicates by arrows) compared to the individual parental strains. The indicated strains were grown in YES media at 30°C, cells were fixed in cold 70% ethanol, stained with DAPI, and analyzed by fluorescence microscopy. (D) Quantification of (C), error bars represent the range between independent duplicate experiments. (E) γH2A levels increase at the rDNA in the absence of Rqh1. γH2A ChIP was performed in the indicated strains. Primer locations are shown in Figure 5B.