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REVERSAL OF A NEUROSPORA TRANSLOCATION BY CROSSING OVER INVOLVING DISPLACED rDNA, AND METHYLATION OF THE rDNA SEGMENTS THAT RESULT FROM RECOMBINATION
David D. Perkins 1, Robert L. Metzenberg 2, Namboori B. Raju 1, Eric U. Selker 2, and Edward G. Barry 3
1 Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford,
California 94305
2 Department of Physiological Chemistry, The University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
3 Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina 27514
In translocation OY321 of Neurospora crassa, the nucleolus organizer is divided into two segments, a proximal portion located interstitially in one interchange chromosome, and a distal portion now located terminally on another chromosome, linkage group I. In crosses of Translocation x Translocation, exceptional progeny are recovered nonselectively in which the chromosome sequence has apparently reverted to Normal. Genetic, cytological, and molecular evidence indicates that reversion is the result of meiotic crossing over between homologous displaced rDNA repeats. Marker linkages are wild type in these exceptional progeny. They differ from wild type, however, in retaining an interstitial block of rRNA genes which can be demonstrated cytologically by the presence of a second, small interstitial nucleolus and genetically by linkage of an rDNA restriction site polymorphism to the mating-type locus in linkage group I. The interstitial rDNA is more highly methylated than the terminal rDNA. The mechanism by which methylation enzymes distinguish between interstitial rDNA and terminal rDNA is unknown. Some hypotheses are considered.
Submitted on May 21, 1986Accepted on August 1, 1986
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