MUTAGEN-SENSITIVE MUTANTS IN DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER - EFFECTS ON PRE-MUTATIONAL DAMAGE
MUTAGEN-SENSITIVE MUTANTS IN DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER - EFFECTS ON PRE-MUTATIONAL DAMAGE
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DOI:
10.1016/0027-5107(79)90107-6
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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WURGLER, FE
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作者:
GRAF, U;GREEN, MM;WURGLER, FE
D. melanogaster males from a Basc stock were mutagenized with X-rays, ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) or nitrogen mustard (HN2). Groups of identically treated males were crossed to different types of females. Larval sex-linked recessive lethals were scored as a genetic end point. The females used were homozygous for X-chromosomal mutations (mus(1)101D1, mus(1)104D1, mei-9 or mei-41D5) which lead to defective DNA repair and which increase the mutagen sensitivity of larvae. Females from a white stock with normal DNA repair capacities served as controls. The premutational lesions induced in mature sperm are only processed after insemination by the maternal enzyme systems present in the oocytes. Differences in the efficiency of the processing of lesions can lead to maternal effects on the frequency of mutations recovered from mutagenized sperm. With the exception of mus(1)104D1, all mutants analyzed significantly modified the mutation fixation of 1 or more types of premutational lesions. The most drastic effect was found with the mus(1)101D1 stock in which HN2-induced DNA cross-links did not lead to sex-linked recessive lethals. The mutant mus(1)101D1 is probably defective in an early step of DNA cross-link repair. The 1st set of data clearly demonstrates that the study of maternal effects in Drosophila is an efficient tool to analyze the in vivo function of repair mutations on chemically-induced mutagenesis.