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Selfing mutants link Ku proteins to mating type determination in Tetrahymena.

PLoS biology - 1 Aug 2020

Lin I-Ting, Yao Meng-Chao

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Recognition of self and nonself is important for outcrossing organisms, and different mating types establish the barrier against self-mating. In the unicellular ciliate T. thermophila, mating type determination requires complex DNA rearrangements at a single mat locus during conjugation to produce a type-specific gene pair (MTA and MTB) for 1 of 7 possible mating types. Surprisingly, we found that decreased...

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PMID: 32745139
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000756
PMCID: PMC7398496

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