Specificity of repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) in Neurospora: sensitivity of non-Neurospora sequences, a natural diverged tandem duplication, and unique DNA adjacent to a duplicated region - PubMed (original) (raw)

Specificity of repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) in Neurospora: sensitivity of non-Neurospora sequences, a natural diverged tandem duplication, and unique DNA adjacent to a duplicated region

E J Foss et al. Genetics. 1991 Apr.

Abstract

The process designated RIP (repeat-induced point mutation) alters duplicated DNA sequences in the sexual cycle of Neurospora crassa. We tested whether non-Neurospora sequences are susceptible to RIP, explored the basis for the observed immunity to this process of a diverged tandem duplication that probably arose by a natural duplication followed by RIP (the Neurospora zeta-eta region), and investigated whether RIP extends at all into unique sequences bordering a duplicated region. Bacterial sequences of the plasmid pUC8 and of a gene conferring resistance to hygromycin B were sensitive to RIP in N. crassa when repeated in the genome. When the entire 1.6-kb zeta-eta region was duplicated, it was susceptible to RIP, but was affected by it to a lesser extent than other duplications. Only three of 62 progeny from crosses harboring unlinked duplications of the region showed evidence of changes. We attribute the low level of alterations to depletion of mutable sites. The stability of the zeta-eta region in strains having single copies of the region suggests that the 14% divergence of the tandem elements is sufficient to prevent RIP. DNA sequence analysis of unduplicated pUC8 sequences adjacent to a duplication revealed that RIP continued at least 180 bp beyond the boundary of the duplication. Three mutations occurred in the 200-bp segment of bordering sequences examined.

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Specificity of repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) in Neurospora: sensitivity of non-Neurospora sequences, a natural diverged tandem duplication, and unique DNA adjacent to a duplicated region - PubMed (original) (raw)