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Molecular and Cellular Biology, September 2005, p. 7976-7987, Vol. 25, No. 18
0270-7306/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.18.7976-7987.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Yeast Recombination Enhancer Is Stimulated by Transcription Activation

Sevinc Ercan,^1,2 Joseph C. Reese,¹ Jerry L. Workman,^2* and Robert T. Simpson^1,

Center for Gene Regulation and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802,¹ Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64110²

Received 9 March 2005/ Returned for modification 2 May 2005/ Accepted 28 June 2005

Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating type switching is a gene conversion event that exhibits donor preference. MATa cells choose HML for recombination, and MAT cells choose HMRa. Donor preference is controlled by the recombination enhancer (RE), located between HML and MATa on the left arm of chromosome III. A number of a-cell specific noncoding RNAs are transcribed from the RE locus. Mcm1 and Fkh1 regulate RE activity in a cells. Here we show that Mcm1 binding is required for both the transcription of the noncoding RNAs and Fkh1 binding. This requirement can be bypassed by inserting another promoter into the RE. Moreover, the insertion of this promoter increases donor preference and opens the chromatin structure around the conserved domains of RE. Additionally, we determined that the level of Fkh1 binding positively correlates with the level of donor preference. We conclude that the role of Mcm1 in RE is to open chromatin around the conserved domains and activate transcription; this facilitates Fkh1 binding and the level of this binding determines the level of donor preference.

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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th St., Kansas City, MO 64110. Phone: (816) 926-4392. Fax: (816) 926-4692. E-mail: JLW{at}Stowers-Institute.org.

Deceased.

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Molecular and Cellular Biology, September 2005, p. 7976-7987, Vol. 25, No. 18
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.18.7976-7987.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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