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S. 1993. DNA polymerase α is essential for mating-type switching in fission yeast. Nature 361: 271–273. S. 1998. A novel function of the DNA repair gene rhp6 in mating-type silencing by chromatin remodeling in fission yeast. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18: 5511–5522. , and McGill C. 1982. Homothallic switching of yeast mating type cassettes is initiated by a double stranded cut in the MAT locus. Cell 31: 183–192. , and Nielsen O. 1993. The smt-0 mutation which abolishes mating-type switching in fission yeast is a deletion.
Klar gated fashion (Grewal and Klar 1996; Thon and Friis 1997). 6 x 10–4/cell division. Even more spectacularly, when cells with these states were mated and the resulting diploid was grown for more than 30 generations and then subjected to meiotic analysis, we found that each state was stable and inherited as a Mendelian epiallele of the mat region (Grewal and Klar 1996). Thus, the epigenetic state is stable in both mitosis and meiosis as a Mendelian, chromosomal marker. To explain this kind of inheritance, we advanced a chromatin replication model in which silencing occurs on both daughter chromatids by self-templating assembly of chromatin in the mat2/3 region (Grewal and Klar 1996).
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