Regulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Srs2 helicase during the mitotic cell cycle, meiosis and after irradiation - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1995 Jul 22;248(1):59-68.

doi: 10.1007/BF02456614.

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Regulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Srs2 helicase during the mitotic cell cycle, meiosis and after irradiation

M Heude et al. Mol Gen Genet. 1995.

Abstract

The expression of the SRS2 gene, which encodes a DNA helicase involved in DNA repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was studied using an SRS2-lacZ fusion integrated at the chromosomal SRS2 locus. It is shown here that this gene is expressed at a low level and is tightly regulated. It is cell-cycle regulated, with induction probably being coordinated with that of the DNA-synthesis genes, which are transcribed at the G1-S boundary. It is also induced by DNA-damaging agents, but only during the G2 phase of the cell cycle; this distinguishes it from a number of other repair genes, which are inducible throughout the cycle. During meiosis, the expression of SRS2 rises at a time nearly coincident with commitment to recombination. Since srs2 null mutants are radiation sensitive essentially when treated in G1, the mitotic regulation pattern described here leads us to postulate that either secondary regulatory events limit Srs2 activity of G1 cells or Srs2 functions in a repair mechanism associated with replication.

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