A direct study of the relative synthesis of petite and grande mitochondrial DNA in zygotes from crosses involving suppressive petite mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chambers ◽  
Elliot Gingold
1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 487-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Michaelis ◽  
Stephen Douglass ◽  
Ming-Jer Tsai ◽  
Richard S. Criddle

1974 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Casey ◽  
Huey-Juang Hsu ◽  
Murray Rabinowitz ◽  
Godfrey S. Getz ◽  
Hiroshi Fukuhara

Genetics ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-530
Author(s):  
K M Oakley ◽  
G D Clark-Walker

ABSTRACT When crosses are performed between newly arisen, spontaneous petite mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, respiratory competent (restored) colonies can form. Some of the restored colonies are highly sectored and produce large numbers of petite mutants. The high-frequency petite formation trait is inherited in a non-Mendelian manner, and elimination of mitochondrial DNA from these strains results in the loss of the trait. These results indicate that abnormal mitochondrial genomes are sometimes formed during restoration of respiratory competence. It is hypothesized that these abnormalities result either from recombination between mitochondrial DNA fragments to produce molecules having partial duplications contained on inverted or transposed sequences, or else recombinational "hot spots" have been expanded.


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