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

Tea3p is a cell end marker activating polarized growth in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Arellano M, Niccoli T, Nurse P

Eukaryotic cells are often polarized in their cytoplasmic structures, and this can be important for their function. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a highly polarized cell that extends bipolarly along a single axis to generate a rod-shaped cell. It divides by medial fission to generate two equal-sized daughter cells that resume growth only at the old end. Once these ... [more]

Curr. Biol. Apr. 30, 2002; 12(9);751-6 [Pubmed: 12007420]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

  • phenotype: inviable (APO:0000112)
  • phenotype: heat sensitivity (APO:0000147)

Related interactions

InteractionExperimental Evidence CodeDatasetThroughputScoreCurated ByNotes
POM1 TEA3
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-2.4405BioGRID
787094
POM1 TEA3
Phenotypic Enhancement
Phenotypic Enhancement

A genetic interaction is inferred when mutation or overexpression of one gene results in enhancement of any phenotype (other than lethality/growth defect) associated with mutation or over expression of another gene.

Low-BioGRID
246792

Curated By

  • BioGRID