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Published online 19 October 2004

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 32 No. 18 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Both CAG repeats and inverted DNA repeats stimulate spontaneous unequal sister-chromatid exchange in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Dilip K. Nag1,2,*, Manisha Suri1 and Erin K. Stenson1

1 Molecular Genetics Program, Center for Medical Sciences, Wadsworth Center, 150 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, USA and 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12201, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 518 473 6327; Fax: +1 518 474 3181; Email: dilip.nag{at}wadsworth.org

Received August 6, 2004; Revised September 21, 2004; Accepted October 1, 2004

Genomic regions containing trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) are highly unstable, as the repeated sequences exhibit a high rate of mutational change, in which they undergo either a contraction or an expansion of repeat numbers. Although expansion of TNRs is associated with several human genetic diseases, the expansion mechanism is poorly understood. Extensive studies in model organisms have indicated that instability of TNRs occurs by several mechanisms, including replication slippage, DNA repair and recombination. In all models, the formation of secondary structures by disease-associated TNRs is a critical step in the mutation process. In this report, we demonstrate that TNRs and inverted repeats (IRs) both of which have the potential to form secondary structures in vivo, increase spontaneous unequal sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) in vegetatively growing yeast cells. Our results also show that TNR-mediated SCE events are independent of RAD50, MRE11 and RAD51, whereas IR-stimulated SCEs are dependent on the RAD52 epistasis-group genes. We propose that many TNR expansion mutations occur by SCE.


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