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A homolog of male sex-determining factor SRY cooperates with a transposon-derived CENP-B protein to control sex-specific directed recombination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Nov 2011
Matsuda Emiko, Sugioka-Sugiyama Rie, Mizuguchi Takeshi, Mehta Sameet, Cui Bowen, Grewal Shiv I S
Abstract excerpt
Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells switch mating type by replacing genetic information at the expressed mat1 locus with sequences copied from mat2-P or mat3-M silent donor loci. The choice of donor locus is dictated by cell type, such that mat2 is the preferred donor in M cells and mat3 is the preferred donor in P cells. Donor choice involves a recombination-promoting complex (RPC) containing Swi2 and Swi5. In P...
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