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- Title
Sterility of Drosophila with mutations in the Bloom syndrome gene--complementation by Ku70.
- Authors
Kusano, K; Johnson-Schlitz, D M; Engels, W R
- Abstract
The Drosophila Dmblm locus is a homolog of the human Bloom syndrome gene, which encodes a helicase of the RECQ family. We show that Dmblm is identical to mus309, a locus originally identified in a mutagen-sensitivity screen. One mus309 allele, which carries a stop codon between two of the helicase motifs, causes partial male sterility and complete female sterility. Mutant males produce an excess of XY sperm and nullo sperm, consistent with a high frequency of nondisjunction and/or chromosome loss. These phenotypes of mus309 suggest that Dmblm functions in DNA double-strand break repair. The mutant Dmblm phenotypes were partially rescued by an extra copy of the DNA repair gene Ku70, indicating that the two genes functionally interact in vivo.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2001, Vol 291, Issue 5513, p2600
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.291.5513.2600