MECHANISM FOR GENE CONVERSION IN FUNGI
MECHANISM FOR GENE CONVERSION IN FUNGI
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DOI:
10.1017/s0016672300001233
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发表时间:
1964-01-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
HOLLIDAY, R
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作者:
HOLLIDAY, R
The mechanism proposed overcomes many of the difficulties that any copy choice model encounters. It is suggested that effective pairing over short regions occurs at the molecular level by the separation of the strands of the DNA double holices, followed by the annealing of strands from 2 homologous chromatids. If the annealed region happens to span a heterozygous site, mispairing of bases will occur. Such a situation may be analogous to that in DNA damaged by mutagens; the same or similar repair mechanisms may operate, and these, by adjusting the base sequences in order to restore normal base pairing, would bring about gene conversion in the absence of any genetic replication. The model indicates how crossing over by breakage and reunion of chromatids could occur in the vicinity of the conversion. The model also proposes that the distance between 2 mutant sites on a fine structure map depends not so much on the frequency of a recombinational event occurring between them, but rather on the degree of inhibition of the processes of genetic pairing by the mutants themselves. Data in the literature which clearly indicate that mutants have an inhibiting effect on intragenic recombination are presented and discussed.