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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on November 15, 2004.
Genetics, Vol. 169, 595-605, February 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.037176
A Natural Meiotic DNA Break Site in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Is a Hotspot of Gene Conversion, Highly Associated With Crossing Over
Gareth A. Cromie, Claudia A. Rubio1, Randy W. Hyppa and Gerald R. Smith2
Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98109-1024
2 Corresponding author: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. North, P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109.
E-mail: gsmith{at}fhcrc.org
In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, meiosis-specific DNA breaks that initiate recombination are observed at prominent but widely separated sites. We investigated the relationship between breakage and recombination at one of these sites, the mbs1 locus on chromosome I. Breaks corresponding to 10% of chromatids were mapped to four clusters spread over a 2.1-kb region. Gene conversion of markers within the clusters occurred in 11% of tetrads (3% of meiotic chromatids), making mbs1 a conversion hotspot when compared to other fission yeast markers. Approximately 80% of these conversions were associated with crossing over of flanking markers, suggesting a strong bias in meiotic break repair toward the generation of crossovers. This bias was observed in conversion events at three other loci, ade6, ade7, and ura1. A total of 50–80% of all crossovers seen in a 90-kb region flanking mbs1 occurred in a 4.8-kb interval containing the break sites. Thus, mbs1 is also a hotspot of crossing over, with breakage at mbs1 generating most of the crossovers in the 90-kb interval. Neither Rec12 (Spo11 ortholog) nor I-SceI-induced breakage at mbs1 was significantly associated with crossing over in an apparently break-free interval >25 kb away. Possible mechanisms for generating crossovers in such break-free intervals are discussed.
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