PMID- 32840803 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210316 LR - 20220102 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Print) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 2153 DP - 2021 TI - Physical and Genetic Assays for the Study of DNA Joint Molecules Metabolism and Multi-invasion-Induced Rearrangements in S. cerevisiae. PG - 535-554 LID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-0644-5_36 [doi] AB - DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are genotoxic lesions that can be repaired in a templated fashion by homologous recombination (HR). HR is a complex pathway that involves the formation of DNA joint molecules (JMs) containing heteroduplex DNA. Various types of JMs are formed throughout the pathway, including displacement loops (D-loops), multi-invasions (MI), and double Holliday junction intermediates. Dysregulation of JM metabolism in various mutant contexts revealed the propensity of HR to generate repeat-mediated chromosomal rearrangements. Specifically, we recently identified MI-induced rearrangements (MIR), a tripartite recombination mechanism initiated by one end of a DSB that exploits repeated regions to generate rearrangements between intact chromosomal regions. MIR occurs upon MI-JM processing by endonucleases and is suppressed by JM disruption activities. Here, we detail two assays: a physical assay for JM detection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells and genetic assays to determine the frequency of MIR in various chromosomal contexts. These assays enable studying the regulation of the HR pathway and the consequences of their defects for genomic instability by MIR. FAU - Piazza, Aurele AU - Piazza A AD - Spatial Regulation of Genomes, Institut Pasteur, UMR3525 CNRS, Paris, France. AD - Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. AD - Univ Lyon, ENS, UCBL, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, UMR5239, Lyon, France. FAU - Rajput, Pallavi AU - Rajput P AD - Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. FAU - Heyer, Wolf-Dietrich AU - Heyer WD AD - Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. wdheyer@ucdavis.edu. AD - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. wdheyer@ucdavis.edu. LA - eng GR - R01 CA092276/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM058015/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM137751/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (DNA, Fungal) RN - 0 (Escherichia coli Proteins) RN - 0 (Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes) RN - EC 3.6.1 (Holliday junction DNA helicase, E coli) RN - EC 3.6.4.- (DNA Helicases) SB - IM MH - DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded MH - DNA Helicases/metabolism MH - DNA, Fungal/chemistry/*genetics MH - Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism MH - Mutation MH - Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes MH - *Recombinational DNA Repair MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*genetics/metabolism PMC - PMC8115024 MID - NIHMS1682192 OTO - NOTNLM OT - D-loop OT - DNA repair OT - Genomic instability OT - Homologous recombination OT - MIR OT - Multi-invasions EDAT- 2020/08/26 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/17 06:00 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2020/08/26 06:00 PHST- 2020/08/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/08/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-0644-5_36 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2153:535-554. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0644-5_36.