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

Schizosaccharomyces pombe mst2+ encodes a MYST family histone acetyltransferase that negatively regulates telomere silencing.

Gomez EB, Espinosa JM, Forsburg SL

Histone acetylation and deacetylation are associated with transcriptional activity and the formation of constitutively silent heterochromatin. Increasingly, histone acetylation is also implicated in other chromosome transactions, including replication and segregation. We have cloned the only Schizosaccharomyces pombe MYST family histone acetyltransferase genes, mst1(+) and mst2(+). Mst1p, but not Mst2p, is essential for viability. Both proteins are localized to the nucleus ... [more]

Mol. Cell. Biol. Oct. 01, 2005; 25(20);8887-903 [Pubmed: 16199868]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

  • phenotype: vegetative growth (APO:0000106)

Related interactions

InteractionExperimental Evidence CodeDatasetThroughputScoreCurated ByNotes
TAZ1 MST2
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-2.6312BioGRID
764627

Curated By

  • BioGRID