6.5 and 6.6 Flashcards

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Recombination prefers homologous because

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no loss of nucleotides at repair site

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2
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Homologous Recombination used in

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Meiosis and DNA Damage Response

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3
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Homologous Recombination specific for

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Double Stranded Breaks (DSB).

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4
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Homologous Recombination exchanges

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similar/identical genetic information across two separate strands of DNA

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5
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Meselson-Weigle Experiment

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Bacteria (Lambda) was grown/maintained in
“Light” medium

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6
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Lambda was chosen bc

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Half DNA by weight so density of the whole virus reflects the density of its DNA

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7
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Meselson-Weigle proved

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crossing over also involves breakage and reunion of DNA molecule

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8
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Yeast as a Model Organism

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*Cheap
*Abundant
*Fast to grow
*Eukaryotic
*Easy to Genetically Manipulate
*Can be studied as Haploid or Diploid
–Yeast can undergo Meiosis

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9
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Yeast

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has help in the understanding of recombination

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10
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Spo11

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protein that makes a double strand break on on of the chromatids by cleaving the phosphodiester bond

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11
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Exonuclease

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enzyme that removes nucleotides from an end of a DNA molecule

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12
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Dmc1

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takes 3’ tail and promotes invasion into homologous chromatid – forms heteroduplex

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Heteroduplex

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region of double stranded DNA in which two strands have nonidentical sequences
Formed during crossing-over
Held by hydrogen bonds

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14
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D-loop

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Structure where the two strands of a double stranded DNA molecule are separated for a stretch and held apart by a third strand of DNA

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15
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D-loop stabilized by

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binding of replication protein A (RPA)

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16
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Spo11 is highly

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conserved

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17
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D-Loop connects with other 3’ tail to form

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2nd heteroduplex

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18
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Holliday junctions

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interlocked regions of two sister chromatids in recombination intermediates

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19
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Heteroduplex Regions

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Expand outwards on both chromatids

20
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Resolvase

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enzyme that breaks and joins DNA strands at Holliday junctions to separate nonsister chromatids during crossing-over

21
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Anticrossover helicase

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helps disentangle the invading strand thus interrupting Holliday junction formation and preventing crossing-over

22
Q

If a cell were to respond to a DNA damage
event during homologous recombination,
where would there most likelybe an error?

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Heteroduplex

23
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Branch migration

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Holliday juncations move away from each other and enlarge the heteroduplx region between them

24
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exonuclease produces

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two 3’ single-stranded tails

25
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Homologous Recombination steps

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*Step 1: Spo11 causes DSB
*Step 2: Exonuclease degrades 5’end of breaks.
*Step 3: Strand invasion – 1st heteroduplex
*Step 4: Holliday Junctions – 2nd heteroduplex
*Step 5: Expansion of heteroduplex regions
*Step 6: Resolving Holliday Junctions

26
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Spo11 prefers to cleave

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particular genomic sites, resulting in hot spots for cross-over

27
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Gene Conversion

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Where one allele is changed to another allele during recombination as a result of heteroduplex formation and mismatch repair during recombination

28
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Mitotic cells do not make

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Spo11 (no homologous recombination

29
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Mitotic recombinantion occurs bc

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damage by environment agents that result in double strand breaks or single strand nicks in DNA

30
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Tetrad analysis

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alleles segregate equally into gametes

31
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Gene conversion produces

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tetrads will not segregate equally (breaks Mendel’s first low)

32
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Some organisms find it useful to have

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site-specific recombination

33
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site-specific recombination is due to

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recombinases

34
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site-specific recombination occurs only DNA target sites that are

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less 200 base pairs long

35
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site-specific recombination is much

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similar that homologous recombination

36
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Integration

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insertion of one DNA molecule into another

37
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Cre-Recombinase

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Recognizes LoxP sequences to perform recombination

38
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system becoming more frequently used in mouse-based research

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FLP-FRT

39
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FLP-FRT system

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using flippase (FLP) recombinase, derived from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
FLP recognizes a pair of FLP recombinase target (FRT) sequences that flank a genomic region of interest

40
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Two types of site specific recombination

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FLP-FRT

41
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Uses of site specific recombo

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turn on or off expression of a specific gene

42
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Clustered Regularly
Interspaced Short
Palindromic Repeats

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CRISPR

43
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CRISPR

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Prokaryotic Anti-viral
defense mechanism

44
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CRISPR/Cas9

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induce double strand breaks at almost any position in the genome

45
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CRISPR/Cas9 allows for

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edit genomes in vicinity of the breakage