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The relative roles of three DNA repair pathways in preventing Caenorhabditis elegans mutation accumulation.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Denver, Dee R. Feinberg, Seth L. Steding, Catherine E. Durbin, Matthew D. Lynch, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | Mutation is a central biological process whose rates and spectra are influenced by a variety of complex and interacting forces. Although DNA repair pathways are generally known to play key roles in maintaining genetic stability, much remains to be understood about the relative roles of different pathways in preventing the accumulation of mutations and the extent of heterogeneity in pathway-specific repair efficiencies across different genomic regions. In this study we examine mutation processes in base excision repair-deficient (nth-1) and nucleotide excision repair-deficient (xpa-1) Caenorhabditis elegans mutation-accumulation (MA) lines across 24 regions of the genome and compare our observations to previous data from mismatch repair-deficient (msh-2 and msh-6) and wild-type (N2) MA lines. Drastic variation in both average and locus-specific mutation rates, ranging two orders of magnitude for the latter, was detected among the four sets of repair-deficient MA lines. Our work provides critical insights into the relative roles of three DNA repair pathways in preventing C. elegans mutation accumulation and provides evidence for the presence of pathway-specific DNA repair territories in the C. elegans genome. |
| Starting Page | 57 |
| Ending Page | 65 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1534/genetics.106.059840 |
| PubMed reference number | 16783005 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 174 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.indiana.edu/~lynchlab/PDF/Lynch149.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.106.059840 |
| Journal | Genetics |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
