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Genetics, Vol. 168, 1855-1865, December 2004, Copyright © 2004
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.032771
Examination of the Roles of Sgs1 and Srs2 Helicases in the Enforcement of Recombination Fidelity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Rachelle Miller Spell and Sue Jinks-Robertson1
Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
1 Corresponding author: Department of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322.
E-mail: sue.jinks-robertson{at}emory.edu
Mutation in SGS1, which encodes the yeast homolog of the human Bloom helicase, or in mismatch repair (MMR) genes confers defects in the suppression of mitotic recombination between similar but nonidentical (homeologous) sequences. Mutational analysis of SGS1 suggests that the helicase activity is required for the suppression of both homologous and homeologous recombination and that the C-terminal 200 amino acids may be required specifically for the suppression of homeologous recombination. To clarify the mechanism by which the Sgs1 helicase enforces the fidelity of recombination, we examined the phenotypes associated with SGS1 deletion in MMR-defective and recombination-defective backgrounds. Deletion of SGS1 caused no additional loss of recombination fidelity above that associated with MMR defects, indicating that the suppression of homeologous recombination by Sgs1 may be dependent on MMR. However, the phenotype of the sgs1 rad51 mutant suggests a MMR-independent role of Sgs1 in the suppression of RAD51-independent recombination. While homologous recombination levels increase in sgs1
and in srs2 strains, the suppression of homeologous recombination was not relaxed in the srs2 mutant. Thus, although both Sgs1 and Srs2 limit the overall level of mitotic recombination, there are distinct differences in the roles of these helicases with respect to enforcement of recombination fidelity.
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