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

Histone chaperone Asf1 plays an essential role in maintaining genomic stability in fission yeast.

Tanae K, Horiuchi T, Matsuo Y, Katayama S, Kawamukai M

The histone H3-H4 chaperone Asf1 is involved in chromatin assembly (or disassembly), histone exchange, regulation of transcription, and chromatin silencing in several organisms. To investigate the essential functions of Asf1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, asf1-ts mutants were constructed by random mutagenesis using PCR. One mutant (asf1-33(ts)) was mated with mutants in 77 different kinase genes to identify synthetic lethal combinations. The ... [more]

PLoS ONE Feb. 01, 2012; 7(1);e30472 [Pubmed: 22291963]

Throughput

Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

phenotype: inviable (APO:0000112)

Curated By

BioGRID

Interaction Summary

CIA1

Gene Ontology Biological Process

Gene Ontology Molecular Function

histone binding [ISO]protein binding [IPI]

Gene Ontology Cellular Component

CKI3