The induction of mitotic gene conversion by chemical and physical mutagens as a function of culture age in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- Vol. 148 (2) , 165-170
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00268381
Abstract
Cultures of yeast progressing from the exponential to the stationary phase of growth show increased resistance to the lethal effects of the chemical mutagens nitrous acid, ethyl methane sulphonate and mitomycin C and increased sensitivity to the lethal effects of UV light. Induced mitotic intragenic recombination produced by gene conversion also shows variation in its response to the growth phase after mutagen treatment. Higher frequencies of recombination per surviving cell were found after nitrous acid and ethyl methane sulphonate treatment of stationary phase cells wherease identical frequencies were produced by UV and mitomycin C treatment in both growth phases. The results were consistent with the hypothesis that the more nitrous acid and ethyl methane sulphonate resistant stationary phase cells were more active in postreplication repair. The sensitivity of exponential phase cells to nitrous acid and ethyl methane sulphonate may result from both increased mutagen uptake and reduced postreplication repair activity. In contrast, irrespective of growth phase all cells surviving UV and mitomycin C treatment appear to have undergone identical levels of post-replication repair.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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