Synthetic Lethality

A genetic interaction is inferred when mutations or deletions in separate genes, each of which alone causes a minimal phenotype, result in lethality when combined in the same cell under a given condition.

Publication

Increased Meiotic Crossovers and Reduced Genome Stability in Absence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad16 (XPF).

Mastro TL, Forsburg SL

Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad16 is the orthologue of the XPF structure-specific endonuclease, which is required for nucleotide excision repair and implicated in the single strand annealing mechanism of recombination. We show that Rad16 is important for proper completion of meiosis. In its absence, cells suffer reduced spore viability and abnormal chromosome segregation with evidence for fragmentation. Recombination between homologous chromosomes is ... [more]

Genetics Oct. 06, 2014; 0(0); [Pubmed: 25293972]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

  • phenotype: inviable (APO:0000112)

Additional Notes

  • Table 1
  • rad16-249 allele

Curated By

  • BioGRID