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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 September; 5(9): 2190-2196

Chromatin organization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2 microns plasmid depends on plasmid-encoded products.

ABSTRACT

We have used gene disruptions and nuclease probes to assess the roles of yeast 2 micron plasmid genes in plasmid chromatin organization. The chromatin structure at the replication origin is not dependent on any of the four major open reading frames, A, B, C, or D. While stable plasmid maintenance is known to depend on a cis-acting locus STB and genes B and C, we find that only gene B influences STB chromatin. Other interactions between plasmid gene products and sequences may reflect gene regulation: the chromatin organization at the 5' end of gene A, which codes for a site-specific recombinase, depends on both gene B and gene C. Since disruption of gene C results in an increase in plasmid copy number that is dependent on gene A, we propose that gene C (and probably gene B) control copy number by regulating the level of the gene A recombinase.

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