Enhanced mitotic recombination in a ligase-defective mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Abstract
The temperature-sensitive S. cerevisiae cell cycle mutant cdc9 is defective in DNA ligase, and the DNA synthesized at the restrictive temperature contains many single-strand breaks. Holding a diploid homozygous for cdc9 at the restrictive temperature gives rise to increased intragenic and ingergenic recombination. In the latter case, recombinants signaled by the ade2 locus rise to about 4% of the survivors after 6 h of incubation at the restrictive temperature. The single-strand breaks left in DNA synthesized at the restrictive temperature may lead to recombination.

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