Yeast Mre11 and Rad1 Proteins Define a Ku-Independent Mechanism To Repair Double-Strand Breaks Lacking Overlapping End Sequences

TABLE 1.

Survival frequency after induction of persistent HO breaks

Strain Genotype Frequency of survival (fold reduction)a Frequency of survivor type
Ura+ Ura
SLY18 Wild type (1.22 ± 0.6) × 10−4 (1) 4.33 × 10−5 7.87 × 10−5
EMK10 yku70Δ (4.87 ± 2.7) × 10−6 (25) 4.16 × 10−6 7.08 × 10−7
SLY19 Wild type (6.00 ± 1.7) × 10−4 (1) 9.60 × 10−5 5.04 × 10−4
EMK11 yku70Δ (4.43 ± 1.6) × 10−4 (1.35) 0 4.43 × 10−4
EMK12 rad52Δ (7.57 ± 2.2) × 10−4 (0.79) 5.25 × 10−5 7.05 × 10−4
JLM30 mre11Δ (4.00 ± 2.4) × 10−5 (15) 6.40 × 10−6 3.36 × 10−5
JLM33 rad50Δ (1.33 ± 0.4) × 10−4 (4.5) 0 1.33 × 10−4
EMK13 rad1Δ (1.30 ± 0.3) × 10−4 (4.6) 2.89 × 10−5 1.01 × 10−4
JLM31 rad1Δ yku70Δ (9.93 ± 4.5) × 10−6 (60.4) 6.45 × 10−6 3.48 × 10−6
JLM32 dnl4Δ (1.34 ± 0.8) × 10−4 (4.47) 1.09 × 10−5 1.23 × 10−4
  • a Reduction was calculated by dividing the survival frequency of each mutant strain by that of either parental strain SLY18 or SLY19. Each value represents the average from at least three independent experiments ± standard deviation.

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  1. Mol. Cell. Biol. vol. 23 no. 23 8820-8828