Synthetic Growth Defect

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

Publication

Telomere binding of checkpoint sensor and DNA repair proteins contributes to maintenance of functional fission yeast telomeres.

Nakamura TM, Moser BA, Russell P

Telomeres, the ends of linear chromosomes, are DNA double-strand ends that do not trigger a cell cycle arrest and yet require checkpoint and DNA repair proteins for maintenance. Genetic and biochemical studies in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe were undertaken to understand how checkpoint and DNA repair proteins contribute to telomere maintenance. On the basis of telomere lengths of mutant ... [more]

Genetics Aug. 01, 2002; 161(4);1437-52 [Pubmed: 12196391]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

  • phenotype: telomere length (APO:0000144)
  • phenotype: vegetative growth (APO:0000106)

Related interactions

InteractionExperimental Evidence CodeDatasetThroughputScoreCurated ByNotes
MRE11 RAD26
Negative Genetic
Negative Genetic

Mutations/deletions in separate genes, each of which alone causes a minimal phenotype, but when combined in the same cell results in a more severe fitness defect or lethality under a given condition. This term is reserved for high or low throughput studies with scores.

High-13.5959BioGRID
523291

Curated By

  • BioGRID