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Ross, L. O., D. Treco, A. Nicolas, J. W. Szostak, and D. Dawson. "Meiotic recombination on artificial chromosomes in yeast." Genetics 131, no. 3 (July 1, 1992): 541–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/131.3.541.
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Abstract We have examined the meiotic recombination characteristics of artificial chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our experiments were carried out using minichromosome derivatives of yeast chromosome III and yeast artificial chromosomes composed primarily of bacteriophage lambda DNA. Tetrad analysis revealed that the artificial chromosomes exhibit very low levels of meiotic recombination. However, when a 12.5-kbp fragment from yeast chromosome VIII was inserted into the right arm of the artificial chromosome, recombination within that arm mimicked the recombination characteristics of the fragment in its natural context including the ability of crossovers to ensure meiotic disjunction. Both crossing over and gene conversion (within the ARG4 gene contained within the fragment) were measured in the experiments. Similarly, a 55-kbp region from chromosome III carried on a minichromosome showed crossover behavior indistinguishable from that seen when it is carried on chromosome III. We discuss the notion that, in yeast, meiotic recombination behavior is determined locally by small chromosomal regions that function free of the influence of the chromosome as a whole.
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Bystricky, Kerstin, Thierry Laroche, Griet van Houwe, Marek Blaszczyk, and Susan M. Gasser. "Chromosome looping in yeast." Journal of Cell Biology 168, no. 3 (January 31, 2005): 375–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200409091.
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Long-range chromosome organization is known to influence nuclear function. Budding yeast centromeres cluster near the spindle pole body, whereas telomeres are grouped in five to eight perinuclear foci. Using live microscopy, we examine the relative positions of right and left telomeres of several yeast chromosomes. Integrated lac and tet operator arrays are visualized by their respective repressor fused to CFP and YFP in interphase yeast cells. The two ends of chromosomes 3 and 6 interact significantly but transiently, forming whole chromosome loops. For chromosomes 5 and 14, end-to-end interaction is less frequent, yet telomeres are closer to each other than to the centromere, suggesting that yeast chromosomes fold in a Rabl-like conformation. Disruption of telomere anchoring by deletions of YKU70 or SIR4 significantly compromises contact between two linked telomeres. These mutations do not, however, eliminate coordinated movement of telomere (Tel) 6R and Tel6L, which we propose stems from the territorial organization of yeast chromosomes.
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Chen, Rey-Huei. "Chromosome detachment from the nuclear envelope is required for genomic stability in closed mitosis." Molecular Biology of the Cell 30, no. 13 (June 15, 2019): 1578–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e19-02-0098.
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Mitosis in metazoans involves detachment of chromosomes from the nuclear envelope (NE) and NE breakdown, whereas yeasts maintain the nuclear structure throughout mitosis. It remains unknown how chromosome attachment to the NE might affect chromosome movement in yeast. By using a rapamycin-induced dimerization system to tether a specific locus of the chromosome to the NE, I found that the tethering delays the separation and causes missegregation of the region distal to the tethered site. The phenotypes are exacerbated by mutations in kinetochore components and Aurora B kinase Ipl1. The chromosome region proximal to the centromere is less affected by the tether, but it exhibits excessive oscillation before segregation. Furthermore, the tether impacts full extension of the mitotic spindle, causing abrupt shrinkage or bending of the spindle in shortened anaphase. The study supports detachment of chromosomes from the NE being required for faithful chromosome segregation in yeast and segregation of tethered chromosomes being dependent on a fully functional mitotic apparatus.
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Guacci, V., and D. B. Kaback. "Distributive disjunction of authentic chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Genetics 127, no. 3 (March 1, 1991): 475–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/127.3.475.
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Abstract Distributive disjunction is defined as the first division meiotic segregation of either nonhomologous chromosomes that lack homologs or homologous chromosomes that have not recombined. To determine if chromosomes from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were capable of distributive disjunction, we constructed a strain that was monosomic for both chromosome I and chromosome III and analyzed the meiotic segregation of the two monosomic chromosomes. In addition, we bisected chromosome I into two functional chromosome fragments, constructed strains that were monosomic for both chromosome fragments and examined meiotic segregation of the chromosome fragments in the monosomic strains. The two nonhomologous chromosomes or chromosome fragments appeared to segregate from each other in approximately 90% of the asci analyzed, indicating that yeast chromosomes were capable of distributive disjunction. We also examined the ability of a small nonhomologous centromere containing plasmid to participate in distributive disjunction with the two nonhomologous monosomic chromosomes. The plasmid appeared to efficiently participate with the two full length chromosomes suggesting that distributive disjunction in yeast is not dependent on chromosome size. Thus, distributive disjunction in S. cerevisiae appears to be different from Drosophila melanogaster where a different sized chromosome is excluded from distributive disjunction when two similar size nonhomologous chromosomes are present.
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Albert, Benjamin, Julien Mathon, Ashutosh Shukla, Hicham Saad, Christophe Normand, Isabelle Léger-Silvestre, David Villa, et al. "Systematic characterization of the conformation and dynamics of budding yeast chromosome XII." Journal of Cell Biology 202, no. 2 (July 22, 2013): 201–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201208186.
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Chromosomes architecture is viewed as a key component of gene regulation, but principles of chromosomal folding remain elusive. Here we used high-throughput live cell microscopy to characterize the conformation and dynamics of the longest chromosome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (XII). Chromosome XII carries the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) that defines the nucleolus, a major hallmark of nuclear organization. We determined intranuclear positions of 15 loci distributed every ∼100 kb along the chromosome, and investigated their motion over broad time scales (0.2–400 s). Loci positions and motions, except for the rDNA, were consistent with a computational model of chromosomes based on tethered polymers and with the Rouse model from polymer physics, respectively. Furthermore, rapamycin-dependent transcriptional reprogramming of the genome only marginally affected the chromosome XII internal large-scale organization. Our comprehensive investigation of chromosome XII is thus in agreement with recent studies and models in which long-range architecture is largely determined by the physical principles of tethered polymers and volume exclusion.
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Fuchs, Jörg, Alexander Lorenz, and Josef Loidl. "Chromosome associations in budding yeast caused by integrated tandemly repeated transgenes." Journal of Cell Science 115, no. 6 (March 15, 2002): 1213–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.115.6.1213.
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The binding of GFP-tagged tetracycline repressor (TetR) molecules to chromosomally integrated tetracycline operator (tetO) sequence repeats has been used as a system to study chromosome behaviour microscopically in vivo. We found that these integrated transgenes influence the architecture of yeast interphase nuclei, as chromosomal loci with tandem repeats of exogenous tetO sequences are frequently associated. These associations occur only if TetR molecules are present. tetO tandem repeats associate regardless of their chromosomal context. When they are present at a proximal and a distal chromosomal position, they perturb the normal polarized Rabl-arrangement of chromosome arms by recruiting chromosome ends to the centromeric pole of the nucleus. Associations are established at G1 and are reduced during S-phase and mitosis. This system may serve as a model for the role of DNA sequence-specific binding proteins in imposing nonrandom distribution of chromosomes within the nucleus.
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Spell, R. M., and C. Holm. "Nature and distribution of chromosomal intertwinings in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Molecular and Cellular Biology 14, no. 2 (February 1994): 1465–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.14.2.1465-1476.1994.
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To elucidate yeast chromosome structure and behavior, we examined the breakage of entangled chromosomes in DNA topoisomerase II mutants by hybridization to chromosomal DNA resolved by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Our study reveals that large and small chromosomes differ in the nature and distribution of their intertwinings. Probes to large chromosomes (450 kb or larger) detect chromosome breakage, but probes to small chromosomes (380 kb or smaller) reveal no breakage products. Examination of chromosomes with one small arm and one large arm suggests that the two arms behave independently. The acrocentric chromosome XIV breaks only on the long arm, and its preferred region of breakage is approximately 200 kb from the centromere. When the centromere of chromosome XIV is relocated, the preferred region of breakage shifts accordingly. These results suggest that large chromosomes break because they have long arms and small chromosomes do not break because they have small arms. Indeed, a small metacentric chromosome can be made to break if it is rearranged to form a telocentric chromosome with one long arm or a ring with an "infinitely" long arm. These results suggest a model of chromosomal intertwining in which the length of the chromosome arm prevents intertwinings from passively resolving off the end of the arm during chromosome segregation.
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Spell, R. M., and C. Holm. "Nature and distribution of chromosomal intertwinings in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Molecular and Cellular Biology 14, no. 2 (February 1994): 1465–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.14.2.1465.
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To elucidate yeast chromosome structure and behavior, we examined the breakage of entangled chromosomes in DNA topoisomerase II mutants by hybridization to chromosomal DNA resolved by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Our study reveals that large and small chromosomes differ in the nature and distribution of their intertwinings. Probes to large chromosomes (450 kb or larger) detect chromosome breakage, but probes to small chromosomes (380 kb or smaller) reveal no breakage products. Examination of chromosomes with one small arm and one large arm suggests that the two arms behave independently. The acrocentric chromosome XIV breaks only on the long arm, and its preferred region of breakage is approximately 200 kb from the centromere. When the centromere of chromosome XIV is relocated, the preferred region of breakage shifts accordingly. These results suggest that large chromosomes break because they have long arms and small chromosomes do not break because they have small arms. Indeed, a small metacentric chromosome can be made to break if it is rearranged to form a telocentric chromosome with one long arm or a ring with an "infinitely" long arm. These results suggest a model of chromosomal intertwining in which the length of the chromosome arm prevents intertwinings from passively resolving off the end of the arm during chromosome segregation.
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McManus, J., P. Perry, A. T. Sumner, D. M. Wright, E. J. Thomson, R. C. Allshire, N. D. Hastie, and W. A. Bickmore. "Unusual chromosome structure of fission yeast DNA in mouse cells." Journal of Cell Science 107, no. 3 (March 1, 1994): 469–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.107.3.469.
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Chromosomes from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe have been introduced into mouse cells by protoplast fusion. In most cell lines the yeast DNA integrates into a single site within a mouse chromosome and results in striking chromosome morphology at metaphase. Both light and electron microscopy show that the yeast chromosome region is narrower than the flanking mouse DNA. Regions of the yeast insert stain less intensely with propidium iodide than surrounding DNA and bear a morphological resemblance to fragile sites. We investigate the composition of the yeast transgenomes and the modification and chromatin structure of this yeast DNA in mouse cells. We suggest that the underlying basis for the structure we see lies above the level of DNA modification and nucleosome assembly, and may reflect the attachment of the yeast DNA to the rodent cell nucleoskeleton. The yeast integrant replicates late in S phase at a time when G bands of the mouse chromosomes are being replicated, and participates in sister chromatid exchanges at a high frequency. We discuss the implications of these studies to the understanding of how chromatin folding relates to metaphase chromosome morphology and how large stretches of foreign DNA behave when introduced into mammalian cells.
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Hollingsworth, N. M., and B. Byers. "HOP1: a yeast meiotic pairing gene." Genetics 121, no. 3 (March 1, 1989): 445–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/121.3.445.
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Abstract The recessive mutation, hop1-1, was isolated by use of a screen designed to detect mutations defective in homologous chromosomal pairing during meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutants in HOP1 displayed decreased levels of meiotic crossing over and intragenic recombination between markers on homologous chromosomes. In contrast, assays of the hop1-1 mutation in a spo13-1 haploid disomic for chromosome III demonstrated that intrachromosomal recombination between directly duplicated sequences was unaffected. The spores produced by SPO13 diploids homozygous for hop1 were largely inviable, as expected for a defect in interhomolog recombination that results in high levels of nondisjunction. HOP1 was cloned by complementation of the spore lethality phenotype and the cloned gene was used to map HOP1 to the LYS11-HIS6 interval on the left arm of chromosome IX. Electron microscopy revealed that diploids homozygous for hop1 fail to form synaptonemal complex, which normally provides the structural basis for homolog pairing. We propose that HOP1 acts in meiosis primarily to promote chromosomal pairing, perhaps by encoding a component of the synaptonemal complex.
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Umezu, Keiko, Mina Hiraoka, Masaaki Mori, and Hisaji Maki. "Structural Analysis of Aberrant Chromosomes That Occur Spontaneously in Diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Retrotransposon Ty1 Plays a Crucial Role in Chromosomal Rearrangements." Genetics 160, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/160.1.97.
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Abstract The structural analysis of aberrant chromosomes is important for our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying chromosomal rearrangements. We have identified a number of diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae clones that have undergone loss of heterozygosity (LOH) leading to functional inactivation of the hemizygous URA3 marker placed on the right arm of chromosome III. Aberrant-sized chromosomes derived from chromosome III were detected in ~8% of LOH clones. Here, we have analyzed the structure of the aberrant chromosomes in 45 LOH clones with a PCR-based method that determines the ploidy of a series of loci on chromosome III. The alterations included various deletions and amplifications. Sequencing of the junctions revealed that all the breakpoints had been made within repeat sequences in the yeast genome, namely, MAT-HMR, which resulted in intrachromosomal deletion, and retrotransposon Ty1 elements, which were involved in various translocations. Although the translocations involved different breakpoints on different chromosomes, all breakpoints were exclusively within Ty1 elements. Some of the resulting Ty1 elements left at the breakpoints had a complex construction that indicated the involvement of other Ty1 elements not present at the parental breakpoints. These indicate that Ty1 elements are crucially involved in the generation of chromosomal rearrangements in diploid yeast cells.
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Sato, Hiroshi, and Shigeaki Saitoh. "Switching the centromeres on and off: epigenetic chromatin alterations provide plasticity in centromere activity stabilizing aberrant dicentric chromosomes." Biochemical Society Transactions 41, no. 6 (November 20, 2013): 1648–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst20130136.
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The kinetochore, which forms on a specific chromosomal locus called the centromere, mediates interactions between the chromosome and the spindle during mitosis and meiosis. Abnormal chromosome rearrangements and/or neocentromere formation can cause the presence of multiple centromeres on a single chromosome, which results in chromosome breakage or cell cycle arrest. Analyses of artificial dicentric chromosomes suggested that the activity of the centromere is regulated epigenetically; on some stably maintained dicentric chromosomes, one of the centromeres no longer functions as a platform for kinetochore formation, although the DNA sequence remains intact. Such epigenetic centromere inactivation occurs in cells of various eukaryotes harbouring ‘regional centromeres’, such as those of maize, fission yeast and humans, suggesting that the position of the active centromere is determined by epigenetic markers on a chromosome rather than the nucleotide sequence. Our recent findings in fission yeast revealed that epigenetic centromere inactivation consists of two steps: disassembly of the kinetochore initiates inactivation and subsequent heterochromatinization prevents revival of the inactivated centromere. Kinetochore disassembly followed by heterochromatinization is also observed in normal senescent human cells. Thus epigenetic centromere inactivation may not only stabilize abnormally generated dicentric chromosomes, but also be part of an intrinsic mechanism regulating cell proliferation.
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Zakian, V. A., H. M. Blanton, L. Wetzel, and G. M. Dani. "Size threshold for Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes: generation of telocentric chromosomes from an unstable minichromosome." Molecular and Cellular Biology 6, no. 3 (March 1986): 925–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.6.3.925-932.1986.
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A 9-kilobase pair CEN4 linear minichromosome constructed in vitro transformed Saccharomyces cerevisiae with high frequency but duplicated or segregated inefficiently in most cells. Stable transformants were only produced by events which fundamentally altered the structure of the minichromosome: elimination of telomeres, alteration of the centromere, or an increase of fivefold or greater in its size. Half of the stable transformants arose via homologous recombination between an intact chromosome IV and the CEN4 minichromosome. This event generated a new chromosome from each arm of chromosome IV. The other "arm" of each new chromosome was identical to one "arm" of the unstable minichromosome. Unlike natural yeast chromosomes, these new chromosomes were telocentric: their centromeres were either 3.9 or 5.4 kilobases from one end of the chromosome. The mitotic stability of the telocentric chromosome derived from the right arm of chromosome IV was determined by a visual assay and found to be comparable to that of natural yeast chromosomes. Both new chromosomes duplicated, paired, and segregated properly in meiosis. Moreover, their structure, as deduced from mobilities in orthogonal field gels, did not change with continued mitotic growth or after passage through meiosis, indicating that they did not give rise to isochromosomes or suffer large deletions or additions. Thus, in S. cerevisiae the close spacing of centromeres and telomeres on a DNA molecule of chromosomal size does not markedly alter the efficiency with which it is maintained. Taken together these data suggest that there is a size threshold below which stable propagation of linear chromosomes is no longer possible.
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Zakian, V. A., H. M. Blanton, L. Wetzel, and G. M. Dani. "Size threshold for Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes: generation of telocentric chromosomes from an unstable minichromosome." Molecular and Cellular Biology 6, no. 3 (March 1986): 925–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.6.3.925.
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A 9-kilobase pair CEN4 linear minichromosome constructed in vitro transformed Saccharomyces cerevisiae with high frequency but duplicated or segregated inefficiently in most cells. Stable transformants were only produced by events which fundamentally altered the structure of the minichromosome: elimination of telomeres, alteration of the centromere, or an increase of fivefold or greater in its size. Half of the stable transformants arose via homologous recombination between an intact chromosome IV and the CEN4 minichromosome. This event generated a new chromosome from each arm of chromosome IV. The other "arm" of each new chromosome was identical to one "arm" of the unstable minichromosome. Unlike natural yeast chromosomes, these new chromosomes were telocentric: their centromeres were either 3.9 or 5.4 kilobases from one end of the chromosome. The mitotic stability of the telocentric chromosome derived from the right arm of chromosome IV was determined by a visual assay and found to be comparable to that of natural yeast chromosomes. Both new chromosomes duplicated, paired, and segregated properly in meiosis. Moreover, their structure, as deduced from mobilities in orthogonal field gels, did not change with continued mitotic growth or after passage through meiosis, indicating that they did not give rise to isochromosomes or suffer large deletions or additions. Thus, in S. cerevisiae the close spacing of centromeres and telomeres on a DNA molecule of chromosomal size does not markedly alter the efficiency with which it is maintained. Taken together these data suggest that there is a size threshold below which stable propagation of linear chromosomes is no longer possible.
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Fleig, U., M. Sen-Gupta, and J. H. Hegemann. "Fission yeast mal2+ is required for chromosome segregation." Molecular and Cellular Biology 16, no. 11 (November 1996): 6169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.16.11.6169.
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By a screen designed to isolate new fission yeast genes required for chromosome segregation, we have identified mal2+. The conditionally lethal mal2-1 allele gives rise to increased loss of a nonessential minichromosome at the permissive temperature and leads to severe missegregation of the chromosomes at the nonpermissive temperature. Cloning by complementation and subsequent sequence analysis revealed that mal2 is a novel protein with a mass of 34 kDa. Cells containing a mal2 null allele were inviable, indicating that mal2+ is an essential gene. Fusion of mal2 protein to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) showed that mal2 was predominantly localized in the nucleus. Sensitivity to microtubule-destabilizing drugs and strong genetic interactions with alpha1-tubulin suggest an interaction of the mal2 protein with the microtubule system. Spindle formation and elongation were not detectably affected in the mal2-1 mutant as determined by indirect immunofluorescence. However, anomalous chromosome movement on the spindle leading to aberrant distribution of the chromosomal material was observed.
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Surosky, Richard T., and Bik-Kwoon Tye. "RESOLUTION OF DICENTRIC CHROMOSOMES BY TY-MEDIATED RECOMBINATION IN YEAST." Genetics 110, no. 3 (July 1, 1985): 397–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/110.3.397.
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ABSTRACT We have integrated a plasmid containing a yeast centromere, CEN5, into the HIS4 region of chromosome III by transformation. Of the three transformant colonies examined, none contained a dicentric chromosome, but all contained a rearranged chromosome III. In one transformant, rearrangement occurred by homologous recombination between two Ty elements; one on the left arm and the other on the right arm of chromosome III. This event produced a ring chromosome (ring chromosome III) of about 60 kb consisting of CEN3 and all other sequences between the two Ty elements. In addition, a linear chromosome (chromosome IIIA) consisting of sequences distal to the two Ty elements including CEN5, but lacking 60 kb of sequences from the centromeric region, was produced. Two other transformants also contain a similarly altered linear chromosome III as well as an apparently normal copy of chromosome III. These results suggest that dicentric chromosomes cannot be maintained in yeast and that dicentric structures must be resolved for the cell to survive.—The meiotic segregation properties of ring chromosome III and linear chromosome IIIA were examined in diploid cells which also contained a normal chromosome III. Chromosome IIIA and normal chromosome III disjoined normally, indicating that homology or parallel location of the centromeric regions of these chromosomes are not essential for proper meiotic segregation. In contrast, the 60-kb ring chromosome III, which is homologous to the centromeric region of the normal chromosome III, did not appear to pair with fidelity with chromosome III.
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Scherthan, H., J. Bähler, and J. Kohli. "Dynamics of chromosome organization and pairing during meiotic prophase in fission yeast." Journal of Cell Biology 127, no. 2 (October 15, 1994): 273–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.127.2.273.
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Interactions between homologous chromosomes (pairing, recombination) are of central importance for meiosis. We studied entire chromosomes and defined chromosomal subregions in synchronous meiotic cultures of Schizosaccharomyces pombe by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Probes of different complexity were applied to spread nuclei, to delineate whole chromosomes, to visualize repeated sequences of centromeres, telomeres, and ribosomal DNA, and to study unique sequences of different chromosomal regions. In diploid nuclei, homologous chromosomes share a joint territory even before entry into meiosis. The centromeres of all chromosomes are clustered in vegetative and meiotic prophase cells, whereas the telomeres cluster near the nucleolus early in meiosis and maintain this configuration throughout meiotic prophase. Telomeres and centromeres appear to play crucial roles for chromosome organization and pairing, both in vegetative cells and during meiosis. Homologous pairing of unique sequences shows regional differences and is most frequent near centromeres and telomeres. Multiple homologous interactions are formed independently of each other. Pairing increases during meiosis, but not all chromosomal regions become closely paired in every meiosis. There is no detectable axial compaction of chromosomes in meiotic prophase. S. pombe does not form mature synaptonemal complexes, but axial element-like structures (linear elements), which were analyzed in parallel. Their appearance coincides with pairing of interstitial chromosomal regions. Axial elements may define minimal structures required for efficient pairing and recombination of meiotic chromosomes.
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Newlon, Carol S. "The replication of yeast chromosomes: lessons fromSaccharomyces cerevisiaechromosome III." Canadian Journal of Botany 73, S1 (December 31, 1995): 208–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b95-248.
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To understand how a eukaryotic chromosome is replicated, a systematic analysis of chromosome III of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been undertaken. Replication origins are specified by autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) elements, whose sequences can be dissected using a simple plasmid assay. Only a subset of ARS elements are active as chromosomal replication origins. Replication origins are required for normal chromosome transmission, but they appear to be redundant; several origins can be deleted without affecting chromosome stability. Replication origin position has been conserved on chromosome III in diverged strains, suggesting that origin position is important for chromosome function. The inability of some ARS elements to function as chromosomal replication origins appears likely to result from chromosomal context or position effects. Replication termination occurs over broad regions between active replication origins. The position of termination can be altered by deleting origins, suggesting that no specific replication termination elements are required. Replication forks appear to move at a relatively constant rate through the chromosome. A replication pause site associated with the centromere results from the kinetochore protein complex that binds the centromere to mediate chromosome segregation. Key words: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ARS elements, replication origins, replication termination, DNA replication intermediates.
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Ueno, Masaru. "Exploring Genetic Interactions with Telomere Protection Gene pot1 in Fission Yeast." Biomolecules 13, no. 2 (February 15, 2023): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom13020370.
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The regulation of telomere length has a significant impact on cancer risk and aging in humans. Circular chromosomes are found in humans and are often unstable during mitosis, resulting in genome instability. Some types of cancer have a high frequency of a circular chromosome. Fission yeast is a good model for studying the formation and stability of circular chromosomes as deletion of pot1 (encoding a telomere protection protein) results in rapid telomere degradation and chromosome fusion. Pot1 binds to single-stranded telomere DNA and is conserved from fission yeast to humans. Loss of pot1 leads to viable strains in which all three fission yeast chromosomes become circular. In this review, I will introduce pot1 genetic interactions as these inform on processes such as the degradation of uncapped telomeres, chromosome fusion, and maintenance of circular chromosomes. Therefore, exploring genes that genetically interact with pot1 contributes to finding new genes and/or new functions of genes related to the maintenance of telomeres and/or circular chromosomes.
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Murray, A. W., and J. W. Szostak. "Construction and behavior of circularly permuted and telocentric chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Molecular and Cellular Biology 6, no. 9 (September 1986): 3166–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.6.9.3166-3172.1986.
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We developed techniques that allow us to construct novel variants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes. These modified chromosomes have precisely determined structures. A metacentric derivative of chromosome III which lacks the telomere-associated X and Y' elements, which are found at the telomeres of most yeast chromosomes, behaves normally in both mitosis and meiosis. We made a circularly permuted telocentric version of yeast chromosome III whose closest telomere was 33 kilobases from the centromere. This telocentric chromosome was lost at a frequency of 1.6 X 10(-5) per cell compared with a frequency of 4.0 X 10(-6) for the natural metacentric version of chromosome III. An extremely telocentric chromosome whose closet telomere was only 3.5 kilobases from the centromere was lost at a frequency of 6.0 X 10(-5). The mitotic stability of telocentric chromosomes shows that the very high frequency of nondisjunction observed for short linear artificial chromosomes is not due to inadequate centromere-telomere separation.
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Murray, A. W., and J. W. Szostak. "Construction and behavior of circularly permuted and telocentric chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Molecular and Cellular Biology 6, no. 9 (September 1986): 3166–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.6.9.3166.
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We developed techniques that allow us to construct novel variants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes. These modified chromosomes have precisely determined structures. A metacentric derivative of chromosome III which lacks the telomere-associated X and Y' elements, which are found at the telomeres of most yeast chromosomes, behaves normally in both mitosis and meiosis. We made a circularly permuted telocentric version of yeast chromosome III whose closest telomere was 33 kilobases from the centromere. This telocentric chromosome was lost at a frequency of 1.6 X 10(-5) per cell compared with a frequency of 4.0 X 10(-6) for the natural metacentric version of chromosome III. An extremely telocentric chromosome whose closet telomere was only 3.5 kilobases from the centromere was lost at a frequency of 6.0 X 10(-5). The mitotic stability of telocentric chromosomes shows that the very high frequency of nondisjunction observed for short linear artificial chromosomes is not due to inadequate centromere-telomere separation.
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Huang, Han-Kuei, Julie M. Bailis, Joel D. Leverson, Eliana B. Gómez, Susan L. Forsburg, and Tony Hunter. "Suppressors of Bir1p (Survivin) Identify Roles for the Chromosomal Passenger Protein Pic1p (INCENP) and the Replication Initiation Factor Psf2p in Chromosome Segregation." Molecular and Cellular Biology 25, no. 20 (October 15, 2005): 9000–9015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.25.20.9000-9015.2005.
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ABSTRACT Fission yeast Bir1p/Cut17p/Pbh1p, the homolog of human Survivin, is a conserved chromosomal passenger protein that is required for cell division and cytokinesis. To study how Bir1p promotes accurate segregation of chromosomes, we generated and analyzed a temperature-sensitive allele, bir1-46, and carried out genetic screens to find genes that interact with bir1 + . We identified Psf2p, a component of the GINS complex required for DNA replication initiation, as a high-copy-number suppressor of the bir1-46 growth defect. Loss of Psf2p function by depletion or deletion or by use of a temperature-sensitive allele, psf2-209, resulted in chromosome missegregation that was associated with mislocalization of Bir1p. We also found that the human homolog of Psf2p, PSF2, was required for proper chromosome segregation. In addition, we observed that high-copy-number expression of Pic1p, the fission yeast homolog of INCENP (inner centromere protein), suppressed bir1-46. Pic1p exhibited a localization pattern typical of chromosomal passenger proteins. Deletion of pic1 + caused chromosome missegregation phenotypes similar to those of bir1-46. Our data suggest that Bir1p and Pic1p act as part of a conserved chromosomal passenger complex and that Psf2p/GINS indirectly affects the localization and function of this complex in chromosome segregation, perhaps through an S-phase role in centromere replication.
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Kaback, David B., Dianna Barber, Jim Mahon, Jacque Lamb, and Jerome You. "Chromosome Size-Dependent Control of Meiotic Reciprocal Recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The Role of Crossover Interference." Genetics 152, no. 4 (August 1, 1999): 1475–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/152.4.1475.
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Abstract In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, small chromosomes undergo meiotic reciprocal recombination (crossing over) at rates (centimorgans per kilobases) greater than those of large chromosomes, and recombination rates respond directly to changes in the total size of a chromosomal DNA molecule. This phenomenon, termed chromosome size-dependent control of meiotic reciprocal recombination, has been suggested to be important for ensuring that homologous chromosomes cross over during meiosis. The mechanism of this regulation was investigated by analyzing recombination in identical genetic intervals present on different size chromosomes. The results indicate that chromosome size-dependent control is due to different amounts of crossover interference. Large chromosomes have high levels of interference while small chromosomes have much lower levels of interference. A model for how crossover interference directly responds to chromosome size is presented. In addition, chromosome size-dependent control was shown to lower the frequency of homologous chromosomes that failed to undergo crossovers, suggesting that this control is an integral part of the mechanism for ensuring meiotic crossing over between homologous chromosomes.
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Kapoor, Priya, and Lori Frappier. "EBNA1 Partitions Epstein-Barr Virus Plasmids in Yeast Cells by Attaching to Human EBNA1-Binding Protein 2 on Mitotic Chromosomes." Journal of Virology 77, no. 12 (June 15, 2003): 6946–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.77.12.6946-6956.2003.
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ABSTRACT Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) episomal genomes are stably maintained in human cells and are partitioned during cell division by mitotic chromosome attachment. Partitioning is mediated by the viral EBNA1 protein, which binds both the EBV segregation element (FR) and a mitotic chromosomal component. We previously showed that the segregation of EBV-based plasmids can be reconstituted in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is absolutely dependent on EBNA1, the EBV FR sequence, and the human EBNA1-binding protein 2 (EBP2). We have now used this yeast system to elucidate the functional contribution of human EBP2 to EBNA1-mediated plasmid partitioning. Human EBP2 was found to attach to yeast mitotic chromosomes in a cell cycle-dependent manner and cause EBNA1 to associate with the mitotic chromosomes. The domain of human EBP2 that binds both yeast and human chromosomes was mapped and shown to be functionally distinct from the EBNA1-binding domain. The functionality and localization of human EBP2 mutants and fusion proteins indicated that the attachment of EBNA1 to mitotic chromosomes is crucial for EBV plasmid segregation in S. cerevisiae, as it is in humans, and that this is the contribution of human EBP2. The results also indicate that plasmid segregation in S. cerevisiae can occur through chromosome attachment.
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Cook, Diana, Sarah Long, John Stanton, Patrick Cusick, Colleen Lawrimore, Elaine Yeh, Sarah Grant, and Kerry Bloom. "Behavior of dicentric chromosomes in budding yeast." PLOS Genetics 17, no. 3 (March 18, 2021): e1009442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009442.
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DNA double-strand breaks arisein vivowhen a dicentric chromosome (two centromeres on one chromosome) goes through mitosis with the two centromeres attached to opposite spindle pole bodies. Repair of the DSBs generates phenotypic diversity due to the range of monocentric derivative chromosomes that arise. To explore whether DSBs may be differentially repaired as a function of their spatial position in the chromosome, we have examined the structure of monocentric derivative chromosomes from cells containing a suite of dicentric chromosomes in which the distance between the two centromeres ranges from 6.5 kb to 57.7 kb. Two major classes of repair products, homology-based (homologous recombination (HR) and single-strand annealing (SSA)) and end-joining (non-homologous (NHEJ) and micro-homology mediated (MMEJ)) were identified. The distribution of repair products varies as a function of distance between the two centromeres. Genetic dependencies on double strand break repair (Rad52), DNA ligase (Lif1), and S phase checkpoint (Mrc1) are indicative of distinct repair pathway choices for DNA breaks in the pericentromeric chromatin versus the arms.
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Yang, Chen, James F. Theis, and Carol S. Newlon. "Conservation of ARS Elements and Chromosomal DNA Replication Origins on Chromosomes III of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. carlsbergensis." Genetics 152, no. 3 (July 1, 1999): 933–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/152.3.933.
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AbstractDNA replication origins, specified by ARS elements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, play an essential role in the stable transmission of chromosomes. Little is known about the evolution of ARS elements. We have isolated and characterized ARS elements from a chromosome III recovered from an alloploid Carlsberg brewing yeast that has diverged from its S. cerevisiae homeologue. The positions of seven ARS elements identified in this S. carlsbergensis chromosome are conserved: they are located in intergenic regions flanked by open reading frames homologous to those that flank seven ARS elements of the S. cerevisiae chromosome. The S. carlsbergensis ARS elements were active both in S. cerevisiae and S. monacensis, which has been proposed to be the source of the diverged genome present in brewing yeast. Moreover, their function as chromosomal replication origins correlated strongly with the activity of S. cerevisiae ARS elements, demonstrating the conservation of ARS activity and replication origin function in these two species.
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Goldway, M., T. Arbel, and G. Simchen. "Meiotic nondisjunction and recombination of chromosome III and homologous fragments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Genetics 133, no. 2 (February 1, 1993): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/133.2.149.
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Abstract A yeast strain, in which nondisjunction of chromosome III at the first meiotic division could be assayed, was constructed. Using chromosome fragmentation plasmids, chromosomal fragments (CFs) were derived in isogenic strains from six sites along chromosome III and one site on chromosome VII. Whereas the presence of the CFs derived from chromosome III increased considerably the meiosis I nondisjunction of that chromosome, the CF derived from chromosome VII had no effect on chromosome III segregation. The effects of the chromosome III-derived fragments were not linearly related to fragment length. Two regions, one of 12 kb in size located at the left end of the chromosome, and the other of 5 kb, located at the center of the right arm, were found to have profound effects on chromosome III nondisjunction. Most disomics arising from meioses in strains containing chromosome III CFs did not contain the CF; thus it appears that the two chromosome III homologs had segregated away from the CF. Among the disomics, recombination between the homologous chromosomes III was lower than expected from the genetic distance, while recombination between one of the chromosomes III and the fragment was frequent. We suggest that there are sites along the chromosome that are more involved than others in the pairing of homologous chromosomes and that the pairing between fragment and homologs involves recombination among these latter elements.
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Avşaroğlu, Barış, Gabriel Bronk, Kevin Li, James E. Haber, and Jane Kondev. "Chromosome-refolding model of mating-type switching in yeast." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 45 (October 24, 2016): E6929—E6938. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607103113.
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Chromosomes are folded into cells in a nonrandom fashion, with particular genetic loci occupying distinct spatial regions. This observation raises the question of whether the spatial organization of a chromosome governs its functions, such as recombination or transcription. We consider this general question in the specific context of mating-type switching in budding yeast, which is a model system for homologous recombination. Mating-type switching is induced by a DNA double-strand break (DSB) at theMATlocus on chromosome III, followed by homologous recombination between the cutMATlocus and one of two donor loci (HMLα andHMRa), located on the same chromosome. Previous studies have suggested that inMATa cells after the DSB is induced chromosome III undergoes refolding, which directs theMATlocus to recombine withHMLα. Here, we propose a quantitative model of mating-type switching predicated on the assumption of DSB-induced chromosome refolding, which also takes into account the previously measured stochastic dynamics and polymer nature of yeast chromosomes. Using quantitative fluorescence microscopy, we measure changes in the distance between the donor (HMLα) andMATloci after the DSB and find agreement with the theory. Predictions of the theory also agree with measurements of changes in the use ofHMLα as the donor, when we perturb the refolding of chromosome III. These results establish refolding of yeast chromosome III as a key driving force inMATswitching and provide an example of a cell regulating the spatial organization of its chromosome so as to direct homology search during recombination.
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Ono, Jasmine, and Duncan Greig. "A Saccharomyces paradox: chromosomes from different species are incompatible because of anti-recombination, not because of differences in number or arrangement." Current Genetics 66, no. 3 (November 20, 2019): 469–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00294-019-01038-x.
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AbstractMany species are able to hybridize, but the sterility of these hybrids effectively prevents gene flow between the species, reproductively isolating them and allowing them to evolve independently. Yeast hybrids formed by Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus parents are viable and able to grow by mitosis, but they are sexually sterile because most of the gametes they make by meiosis are inviable. The genomes of these two species are so diverged that they cannot recombine properly during meiosis, so they fail to segregate efficiently. Thus most hybrid gametes are inviable because they lack essential chromosomes. Recent work shows that chromosome mis-segregation explains nearly all observed hybrid sterility—genetic incompatibilities have only a small sterilising effect, and there are no significant sterilising incompatibilities in chromosome arrangement or number between the species. It is interesting that chromosomes from these species have diverged so much in sequence without changing in configuration, even though large chromosomal changes occur quite frequently, and sometimes beneficially, in evolving yeast populations.
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Ocampo-Hafalla, Maria, Sofía Muñoz, Catarina P. Samora, and Frank Uhlmann. "Evidence for cohesin sliding along budding yeast chromosomes." Open Biology 6, no. 6 (June 2016): 150178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.150178.
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The ring-shaped cohesin complex is thought to topologically hold sister chromatids together from their synthesis in S phase until chromosome segregation in mitosis. How cohesin stably binds to chromosomes for extended periods, without impeding other chromosomal processes that also require access to the DNA, is poorly understood. Budding yeast cohesin is loaded onto DNA by the Scc2–Scc4 cohesin loader at centromeres and promoters of active genes, from where cohesin translocates to more permanent places of residence at transcription termination sites. Here we show that, at the GAL2 and MET17 loci, pre-existing cohesin is pushed downstream along the DNA in response to transcriptional gene activation, apparently without need for intermittent dissociation or reloading. We observe translocation intermediates and find that the distribution of most chromosomal cohesin is shaped by transcription. Our observations support a model in which cohesin is able to slide laterally along chromosomes while maintaining topological contact with DNA. In this way, stable cohesin binding to DNA and enduring sister chromatid cohesion become compatible with simultaneous underlying chromosomal activities, including but maybe not limited to transcription.
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Guacci, V., E. Hogan, and D. Koshland. "Chromosome condensation and sister chromatid pairing in budding yeast." Journal of Cell Biology 125, no. 3 (May 1, 1994): 517–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.125.3.517.
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We have developed a fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) method to examine the structure of both natural chromosomes and small artificial chromosomes during the mitotic cycle of budding yeast. Our results suggest that the pairing of sister chromatids: (a) occurs near the centromere and at multiple places along the chromosome arm as has been observed in other eukaryotic cells; (b) is maintained in the absence of catenation between sister DNA molecules; and (c) is independent of large blocks of repetitive DNA commonly associated with heterochromatin. Condensation of a unique region of chromosome XVI and the highly repetitive ribosomal DNA (rDNA) cluster from chromosome XII were also examined in budding yeast. Interphase chromosomes were condensed 80-fold relative to B form DNA, similar to what has been observed in other eukaryotes, suggesting that the structure of interphase chromosomes may be conserved among eukaryotes. While additional condensation of budding yeast chromosomes were observed during mitosis, the level of condensation was less than that observed for human mitotic chromosomes. At most stages of the cell cycle, both unique and repetitive sequences were either condensed or decondensed. However, in cells arrested in late mitosis (M) by a cdc15 mutation, the unique DNA appeared decondensed while the repetitive rDNA region appeared condensed, suggesting that the condensation state of separate regions of the genome may be regulated differently. The ability to monitor the pairing and condensation of sister chromatids in budding yeast should facilitate the molecular analysis of these processes as well as provide two new landmarks for evaluating the function of important cell cycle regulators like p34 kinases and cyclins. Finally our FISH method provides a new tool to analyze centromeres, telomeres, and gene expression in budding yeast.
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Chen, Yumay, Daniel J. Riley, Lei Zheng, Phang-Lang Chen, and Wen-Hwa Lee. "Phosphorylation of the Mitotic Regulator Protein Hec1 by Nek2 Kinase Is Essential for Faithful Chromosome Segregation." Journal of Biological Chemistry 277, no. 51 (October 16, 2002): 49408–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m207069200.
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Hec1 (highlyexpressed incancer) plays essential roles in chromosome segregation by interacting through its coiled-coil domains with several proteins that modulate the G2/M phase. Hec1 localizes to kinetochores, and its inactivation either by genetic deletion or antibody neutralization leads to severe and lethal chromosomal segregation errors, indicating that Hec1 plays a critical role in chromosome segregation. The mechanisms by which Hec1 is regulated, however, are not known. Here we show that human Hec1 is a serine phosphoprotein and that it binds specifically to the mitotic regulatory kinase Nek2 during G2/M. Nek2 phosphorylates Hec1 on serine residue 165, bothin vitroandin vivo. Yeast cells are viable without scNek2/Kin3, a close structural homolog of Nek2 that binds to both human and yeast Hec1. When the same yeasts carry an scNek2/Kin3 (D55G) or Nek2 (E38G) mutation to mimic a similar temperature-sensitivenimamutation inAspergillus, their growth is arrested at the nonpermissive temperature, because the scNek2/Kin3 (D55G) mutant binds to Hec1 but fails to phosphorylate it. Whereas wild-type human Hec1 rescues lethality resulting from deletion of Hec1 inSaccharomyces cerevesiae, a human Hec1 mutant or yeast Hec1 mutant changing Ser165to Ala or yeast Hec1 mutant changing Ser201to Ala does not. Mutations changing the same Ser residues to Glu, to mimic the negative charge created by phosphorylation, partially rescue lethality but result in a high incidence of errors in chromosomal segregation. These results suggest that cell cycle-regulated serine phosphorylation of Hec1 by Nek2 is essential for faithful chromosome segregation.
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Ma, Chien-Hui, Deepanshu Kumar, Makkuni Jayaram, Santanu K. Ghosh, and Vishwanath R. Iyer. "The selfish yeast plasmid exploits a SWI/SNF-type chromatin remodeling complex for hitchhiking on chromosomes and ensuring high-fidelity propagation." PLOS Genetics 19, no. 10 (October 9, 2023): e1010986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010986.
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Extra-chromosomal selfish DNA elements can evade the risk of being lost at every generation by behaving as chromosome appendages, thereby ensuring high fidelity segregation and stable persistence in host cell populations. The yeast 2-micron plasmid and episomes of the mammalian gammaherpes and papilloma viruses that tether to chromosomes and segregate by hitchhiking on them exemplify this strategy. We document for the first time the utilization of a SWI/SNF-type chromatin remodeling complex as a conduit for chromosome association by a selfish element. One principal mechanism for chromosome tethering by the 2-micron plasmid is the bridging interaction of the plasmid partitioning proteins (Rep1 and Rep2) with the yeast RSC2 complex and the plasmid partitioning locus STB. We substantiate this model by multiple lines of evidence derived from genomics, cell biology and interaction analyses. We describe a Rep-STB bypass system in which a plasmid engineered to non-covalently associate with the RSC complex mimics segregation by chromosome hitchhiking. Given the ubiquitous prevalence of SWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes among eukaryotes, it is likely that the 2-micron plasmid paradigm or analogous ones will be encountered among other eukaryotic selfish elements.
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Cai, H., P. Kiefel, J. Yee, and I. Duncan. "A yeast artificial chromosome clone map of the Drosophila genome." Genetics 136, no. 4 (April 1, 1994): 1385–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/136.4.1385.
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Abstract We describe the mapping of 979 randomly selected large yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones of Drosophila DNA by in situ hybridization to polytene chromosomes. Eight hundred and fifty-five of the clones are euchromatic and have primary hybridization sites in the banded portions of the polytene chromosomes, whereas 124 are heterochromatic and label the chromocenter. The average euchromatic clone contains about 211 kb and, at its primary site, labels eight or nine contiguous polytene bands. Thus, the extent as well as chromosomal position of each clone has been determined. By direct band counts, we estimate our clones provide about 76% coverage of the euchromatin of the major autosomes, and 63% coverage of the X. When previously reported YAC mapping data are combined with ours, euchromatic coverage is extended to about 90% for the autosomes and 82% for the X. The distribution of gap sizes in our map and the coverage achieved are in good agreement with expectations based on the assumption of random coverage, indicating that euchromatic clones are essentially randomly distributed. However, certain gaps in coverage, including the entire fourth chromosome euchromatin, may be significant. Heterochromatic sequences are underrepresented among the YAC clones by two to three fold. This may result, at least in part, from underrepresentation of heterochromatic sequences in adult DNA (the source of most of the clones analyzed), or from clone instability.
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Gambogi, Craig W., Gabriel J. Birchak, Elie Mer, David M. Brown, George Yankson, Kathryn Kixmoeller, Janardan N. Gavade, et al. "Efficient formation of single-copy human artificial chromosomes." Science 383, no. 6689 (March 22, 2024): 1344–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adj3566.
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Large DNA assembly methodologies underlie milestone achievements in synthetic prokaryotic and budding yeast chromosomes. While budding yeast control chromosome inheritance through ~125-base pair DNA sequence-defined centromeres, mammals and many other eukaryotes use large, epigenetic centromeres. Harnessing centromere epigenetics permits human artificial chromosome (HAC) formation but is not sufficient to avoid rampant multimerization of the initial DNA molecule upon introduction to cells. We describe an approach that efficiently forms single-copy HACs. It employs a ~750-kilobase construct that is sufficiently large to house the distinct chromatin types present at the inner and outer centromere, obviating the need to multimerize. Delivery to mammalian cells is streamlined by employing yeast spheroplast fusion. These developments permit faithful chromosome engineering in the context of metazoan cells.
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Mehta, Shwetal, Xian Mei Yang, Clarence S. Chan, Melanie J. Dobson, Makkuni Jayaram, and Soundarapandian Velmurugan. "The 2 micron plasmid purloins the yeast cohesin complex." Journal of Cell Biology 158, no. 4 (August 12, 2002): 625–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200204136.
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The yeast 2 micron plasmid achieves high fidelity segregation by coupling its partitioning pathway to that of the chromosomes. Mutations affecting distinct steps of chromosome segregation cause the plasmid to missegregate in tandem with the chromosomes. In the absence of the plasmid stability system, consisting of the Rep1 and Rep2 proteins and the STB DNA, plasmid and chromosome segregations are uncoupled. The Rep proteins, acting in concert, recruit the yeast cohesin complex to the STB locus. The periodicity of cohesin association and dissociation is nearly identical for the plasmid and the chromosomes. The timely disassembly of cohesin is a prerequisite for plasmid segregation. Cohesin-mediated pairing and unpairing likely provides a counting mechanism for evenly partitioning plasmids either in association with or independently of the chromosomes.
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Molnar, Monika, Jürg Bähler, Jürg Kohli, and Yasushi Hiraoka. "Live observation of fission yeast meiosis in recombination-deficient mutants." Journal of Cell Science 114, no. 15 (August 1, 2001): 2843–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.114.15.2843.
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Regular segregation of homologous chromosomes during meiotic divisions is essential for the generation of viable progeny. In recombination-proficient organisms, chromosome disjunction at meiosis I generally occurs by chiasma formation between the homologs (chiasmate meiosis). We have studied meiotic stages in living rec8 and rec7 mutant cells of fission yeast, with special attention to prophase and the first meiotic division. Both rec8 and rec7 are early recombination mutants, and in rec7 mutants, chromosome segregation at meiosis I occurs without any recombination (achiasmate meiosis). Both mutants showed distinct irregularities in nuclear prophase movements. Additionally, rec7 showed an extended first division of variable length and with single chromosomes changing back and forth between the cell poles. Two other early recombination deficient mutants (rec14 and rec15) showed very similar phenotypes to rec7 during the first meiotic division, and the fidelity of achiasmate chromosome segregation slightly exceeded the expected random level. We discuss possible regulatory mechanisms of fission yeast to deal with achiasmate chromosome segregation.
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Jinks-Robertson, Sue, Shariq Sayeed, and Tamara Murphy. "Meiotic Crossing Over Between Nonhomologous Chromosomes Affects Chromosome Segregation in Yeast." Genetics 146, no. 1 (May 1, 1997): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/146.1.69.
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Meiotic recombination between artificial repeats positioned on nonhomologous chromosomes occurs efficiently in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Both gene conversion and crossover eventS have been observed, with crossovers yielding reciprocal translocations. In the current study, 5.5-kb ura3 repeats positioned on chromosomes V and XV were used to examine the effect of ectopic recombination on meiotic chromosome segregation. Ura+ random spores were selected and gene conversion vs. crossover events were distinguished by Southern blot analysis. Approximately 15% of the crossover events between chromosomes V and XV were associated with missegregation of one of these chromosomes. The missegregation was manifest as hyperploid spores containing either both translocations plus a normal chromosome, or both normal chromosomes plus one of the translocations. In those cases where it could be analyzed, missegregation occurred at the first meiotic division. These data are discussed in terms of a model in which ectopic crossovers compete efficiently with normal allelic crossovers in directing meiotic chromosome segregation.
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Davis, Allison P., and Lorraine S. Symington. "RAD51-Dependent Break-Induced Replication in Yeast." Molecular and Cellular Biology 24, no. 6 (March 15, 2004): 2344–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.24.6.2344-2351.2004.
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ABSTRACT A chromosome fragmentation assay was used to measure the efficiency and genetic control of break-induced replication (BIR) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Formation of a chromosome fragment by de novo telomere generation at one end of the linear vector and recombination-dependent replication of 100 kb of chromosomal sequences at the other end of the vector occurred at high frequency in wild-type strains. RAD51 was required for more than 95% of BIR events involving a single-end invasion and was essential when two BIR events were required for generation of a chromosome fragment. The similar genetic requirements for BIR and gene conversion suggest a common strand invasion intermediate in these two recombinational repair processes. Mutation of RAD50 or RAD59 conferred no significant defect in BIR in either RAD51 or rad51 strains. RAD52 was shown to be essential for BIR at unique chromosomal sequences, although rare recombination events were detected between the subtelomeric Y′ repeats.
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Goldway, M., A. Sherman, D. Zenvirth, T. Arbel, and G. Simchen. "A short chromosomal region with major roles in yeast chromosome III meiotic disjunction, recombination and double strand breaks." Genetics 133, no. 2 (February 1, 1993): 159–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/133.2.159.
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Abstract A multicopy plasmid was isolated from a yeast genomic library, whose presence resulted in a twofold increase in meiotic nondisjunction of chromosome III. The plasmid contains a 7.5-kb insert from the middle of the right arm of chromosome III, including the gene THR4. Using chromosomal fragments derived from chromosome III, we determined that the cloned region caused a significant, specific, cis-acting increase in chromosome III nondisjunction in the first meiotic division. The plasmid containing this segment exhibited high spontaneous meiotic integration into chromosome III (in 2.4% of the normal meiotic divisions) and a sixfold increase (15.5%) in integration in nondisjunctant meioses. Genetic analysis of the cloned region revealed that it contains a "hot spot" for meiotic recombination. In DNA of rad50S mutant cells, a strong meiosis-induced double strand break (DSB) signal was detected in this region. We discuss the possible relationships between meiosis-induced DSBs, recombination and chromosome disjunction, and propose that recombinational hot spots may be "pairing sites" for homologous chromosomes in meiosis.
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Bosco, Giovanni, and James E. Haber. "Chromosome Break-Induced DNA Replication Leads to Nonreciprocal Translocations and Telomere Capture." Genetics 150, no. 3 (November 1, 1998): 1037–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/150.3.1037.
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Abstract In yeast, broken chromosomes can be repaired by recombination, resulting in nonreciprocal translocations. In haploid cells suffering an HO endonuclease-induced, double-strand break (DSB), nearly 2% of the broken chromosome ends recombined with a sequence near the opposite chromosome end, which shares only 72 bp of homology with the cut sequence. This produced a repaired chromosome with the same 20-kb sequence at each end. Diploid strains were constructed in which the broken chromosome shared homology with the unbroken chromosome only on the centromere-proximal side of the DSB. More than half of these cells repaired the DSB by copying sequences distal to the break from the unbroken template chromosome. All these events were RAD52 dependent. Pedigree analysis established that DSBs occurring in G1 were repaired by a replicative mechanism, producing two identical daughter cells. We discuss the implications of these data in understanding telomerase-independent replication of telomeres, gene amplification, and the evolution of chromosomal ends.
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Wang, Li-Bin, Zhi-Kun Li, Le-Yun Wang, Kai Xu, Tian-Tian Ji, Yi-Huan Mao, Si-Nan Ma, et al. "A sustainable mouse karyotype created by programmed chromosome fusion." Science 377, no. 6609 (August 26, 2022): 967–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1964.
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Chromosome engineering has been attempted successfully in yeast but remains challenging in higher eukaryotes, including mammals. Here, we report programmed chromosome ligation in mice that resulted in the creation of new karyotypes in the lab. Using haploid embryonic stem cells and gene editing, we fused the two largest mouse chromosomes, chromosomes 1 and 2, and two medium-size chromosomes, chromosomes 4 and 5. Chromatin conformation and stem cell differentiation were minimally affected. However, karyotypes carrying fused chromosomes 1 and 2 resulted in arrested mitosis, polyploidization, and embryonic lethality, whereas a smaller fused chromosome composed of chromosomes 4 and 5 was able to be passed on to homozygous offspring. Our results suggest the feasibility of chromosome-level engineering in mammals.
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Page, B. D., and M. Snyder. "Chromosome Segregation in Yeast." Annual Review of Microbiology 47, no. 1 (October 1993): 231–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.mi.47.100193.001311.
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Ramsay, Michele. "Yeast artificial chromosome cloning." Molecular Biotechnology 1, no. 2 (April 1994): 181–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02921558.
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Fischer, K., P. Horrocks, M. Preuss, J. Wiesner, S. Wünsch, A. A. Camargo, and M. Lanzer. "Expression of var genes located within polymorphic subtelomeric domains of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes." Molecular and Cellular Biology 17, no. 7 (July 1997): 3679–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mcb.17.7.3679.
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Plasmodium falciparum var genes encode a diverse family of proteins, located on the surfaces of infected erythrocytes, which are implicated in the pathology of human malaria through antigenic variation and adhesion of infected erythrocytes to the microvasculature. We have constructed a complete representative telomere-to-telomere yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) contig map of the P. falciparum chromosome 8 for studies on the chromosomal organization, distribution, and expression of var genes. Three var gene loci were identified on chromosome 8, two of which map close to the telomeres at either end of the chromosome. Analysis of the previously described chromosome 2 contig map and random P. falciparum telomeric YAC clones revealed that most, if not all, 14 P. falciparum chromosomes contain var genes in a subtelomeric location. Mapping the chromosomal location of var genes expressed in a long-term culture of the P. falciparum isolate Dd2 revealed that four of the five different expressed var genes identified map within subtelomeric locations. Expression of var genes from a chromosomal domain known for frequent rearrangements has important implications for the mechanism of var gene switching and the generation of novel antigenic and adhesive phenotypes.
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Rockmill, B., and S. Fogel. "DIS1: a yeast gene required for proper meiotic chromosome disjunction." Genetics 119, no. 2 (June 1, 1988): 261–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/119.2.261.
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Abstract Mutants at a newly identified locus, DIS1 (disjunction), were detected by screening for mutants that generate aneuploid spores (chromosome VIII disomes) at an increased frequency. Strains carrying the partially dominant alleles, DIS1-1 or DIS1-2, generate disomes at rates up to 100 times the background level. Mitotic nondisjunction is also increased 10- to 50-fold over background. Half-tetrad analysis of disomes for a marked interval on chromosome VIII yields wild-type map distances, indicating that a general recombination deficiency is not the cause of nondisjunction. Meiotic nondisjunction in DIS1 mutants is not chromosome specific; 5% of the spores disomic for chromosome VIII are also disomic for chromosome III. Although only one disomic spore is found per exceptional ascus most of the disomes appear to be generated in the first meiotic division because recovered chromosome VIII disomes contain mostly nonsister chromosomes. We propose that disome generation in the DIS1 mutants results from precocious separation of sister centromeres.
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Cairo, Gisela, and Soni Lacefield. "Establishing correct kinetochore-microtubule attachments in mitosis and meiosis." Essays in Biochemistry 64, no. 2 (May 14, 2020): 277–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/ebc20190072.
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Abstract Faithful chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis requires that chromosomes properly attach to spindle microtubules. Initial kinetochore-microtubule attachments are often incorrect and rely on error correction mechanisms to release improper attachments, allowing the formation of new attachments. Aurora B kinase and, in mammalian germ cells, Aurora C kinase function as the enzymatic component of the Chromosomal Passenger Complex (CPC), which localizes to the inner centromere/kinetochore and phosphorylates kinetochore proteins for microtubule release during error correction. In this review, we discuss recent findings of the molecular pathways that regulate the chromosomal localization of Aurora B and C kinases in human cell lines, mice, fission yeast, and budding yeast. We also discuss differences in the importance of localization pathways between mitosis and meiosis.
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Wells, W. A., and A. W. Murray. "Aberrantly segregating centromeres activate the spindle assembly checkpoint in budding yeast." Journal of Cell Biology 133, no. 1 (April 1, 1996): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.133.1.75.
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The spindle assembly checkpoint is the mechanism or set of mechanisms that prevents cells with defects in chromosome alignment or spindle assembly from passing through mitosis. We have investigated the effects of mini-chromosomes on this checkpoint in budding yeast by performing pedigree analysis. This method allowed us to observe the frequency and duration of cell cycle delays in individual cells. Short, centromeric linear mini-chromosomes, which have a low fidelity of segregation, cause frequent delays in mitosis. Their circular counterparts and longer linear mini-chromosomes, which segregate more efficiently, show a much lower frequency of mitotic delays, but these delays occur much more frequently in divisions where the mini-chromosome segregates to only one of the two daughter cells. Using a conditional centromere to increase the copy number of a circular mini-chromosome greatly increases the frequency of delayed divisions. In all cases the division delays are completely abolished by the mad mutants that inactivate the spindle assembly checkpoint, demonstrating that the Mad gene products are required to detect the subtle defects in chromosome behavior that have been observed to arrest higher eukaryotic cells in mitosis.
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Velmurugan, Soundarapandian, Xian-Mei Yang, Clarence S. M. Chan, Melanie Dobson, and Makkuni Jayaram. "Partitioning of the 2-μm Circle Plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Journal of Cell Biology 149, no. 3 (May 1, 2000): 553–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.149.3.553.
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The efficient partitioning of the 2-μm plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at cell division is dependent on two plasmid-encoded proteins (Rep1p and Rep2p), together with the cis-acting locus REP3 (STB). In addition, host encoded factors are likely to contribute to plasmid segregation. Direct observation of a 2-μm–derived plasmid in live yeast cells indicates that the multiple plasmid copies are located in the nucleus, predominantly in clusters with characteristic shapes. Comparison to a single-tagged chromosome or to a yeast centromeric plasmid shows that the segregation kinetics of the 2-μm plasmid and the chromosome are quite similar during the yeast cell cycle. Immunofluorescence analysis reveals that the plasmid is colocalized with the Rep1 and Rep2 proteins within the yeast nucleus. Furthermore, the Rep proteins (and therefore the plasmid) tend to concentrate near the poles of the yeast mitotic spindle. Depolymerization of the spindle results in partial dispersion of the Rep proteins in the nucleus concomitant with a loosening in the association between plasmid molecules. In an ipl1-2 yeast strain, shifted to the nonpermissive temperature, the chromosomes and plasmid almost always missegregate in tandem. Our results suggest that, after DNA replication, plasmid distribution to the daughter cells occurs in the form of specific DNA-protein aggregates. They further indicate that the plasmid partitioning mechanism may exploit at least some of the components of the cellular machinery required for chromosomal segregation.
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Sherwin, Delaney, Abigail Huetteman, and Yanchang Wang. "Yeast Kinesin-5 Motor Protein CIN8 Promotes Accurate Chromosome Segregation." Cells 11, no. 14 (July 7, 2022): 2144. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11142144.
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Accurate chromosome segregation depends on bipolar chromosome–microtubule attachment and tension generation on chromosomes. Incorrect chromosome attachment results in chromosome missegregation, which contributes to genome instability. The kinetochore is a protein complex that localizes at the centromere region of a chromosome and mediates chromosome–microtubule interaction. Incorrect chromosome attachment leads to checkpoint activation to prevent anaphase onset. Kinetochore detachment activates the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), while tensionless kinetochore attachment relies on both the SAC and tension checkpoint. In budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, kinesin-5 motor proteins Cin8 and Kip1 are needed to separate spindle pole bodies for spindle assembly, and deletion of CIN8 causes lethality in the absence of SAC. To study the function of Cin8 and Kip1 in chromosome segregation, we constructed an auxin-inducible degron (AID) mutant, cin8-AID. With this conditional mutant, we first confirmed that cin8-AID kip1∆ double mutants were lethal when Cin8 is depleted in the presence of auxin. These cells arrested in metaphase with unseparated spindle pole bodies and kinetochores. We further showed that the absence of either the SAC or tension checkpoint was sufficient to abolish the cell-cycle delay in cin8-AID mutants, causing chromosome missegregation and viability loss. The tension checkpoint-dependent phenotype in cells with depleted Cin8 suggests the presence of tensionless chromosome attachment. We speculate that the failed spindle pole body separation in cin8 mutants could increase the chance of tensionless syntelic chromosome attachments, which depends on functional tension checkpoint for survival.