INCREASED SPONTANEOUS MITOTIC SEGREGATION IN MMS-SENSITIVE MUTANTS OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

1 Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
2 Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642

Methyl methanesulfonate (MMS)-sensitive mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae belonging to four different complementation groups, when homozygous, increase the rate of spontaneous mitotic segregation to canavanine resistance from heterozygous sensitive (canr/+) diploids by 13- to 170-fold. The mms8–1 mutant is MMS and X-ray sensitive and increases the rate of spontaneous mitotic segregation 170-fold. The mms9–1 and mms13–1 mutants are sensitive to X rays and UV, respectively, in addition to MMS, and increase the rate of spontaneous mitotic segregation by 13-fold and 85-fold, respectively. The mutant mms21–1 is sensitive to MMS, X rays and UV and increases the rate of spontaneous mitotic segregation 23-fold.

Submitted on August 6, 1976
Revised on June 23, 1977




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