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

The Schizosaccharomyces pombe HIRA-like protein Hip1 is required for the periodic expression of histone genes and contributes to the function of complex centromeres.

Blackwell C, Martin KA, Greenall A, Pidoux A, Allshire RC, Whitehall SK

HIRA-like (Hir) proteins are evolutionarily conserved and are implicated in the assembly of repressive chromatin. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Hir proteins contribute to the function of centromeres. However, S. cerevisiae has point centromeres that are structurally different from the complex centromeres of metazoans. In contrast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe has complex centromeres whose domain structure is conserved with that of human centromeres. Therefore, ... [more]

Mol. Cell. Biol. May. 01, 2004; 24(10);4309-20 [Pubmed: 15121850]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

  • phenotype: inviable (APO:0000112)

Curated By

  • BioGRID