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The Kluyveromyces linear plasmids pGKL 1 and pGKL2, encoding killer activity, were efficiently cured by UV irradiation. This event was investigated in more detail by the use of the terminal protein (TP)-associated cytoplasmic linear plasmids, pJKL1 and pRKL2, with a selectable marker LEU2. This observation was compared with the UV effect on the nuclear plasmids pLS1 (telomere-associated linear form) and YCp121 (centromere-integrated circular form), indicating that the UV hypersensitivity was specific to the cytoplasmic plasmids. Using rad4 and wildtype strains of S. cerevisiae, both pJKL1 and the nuclear plasmids were found to respond not only to photoreactivation repair but also to excision repair of UV-induced DNA damage. Thus these DNA repair systems were functional for both the nuclear and cytoplasmic plasmids in yeast, and it was suggested that the UV hypersensitivity of cytoplasmic plasmids might have been caused by a defect in other repair systems or in the TP-primed replication. Possibly TP-associated Debaryomyces linear plasmids were also UV hypersensitive.
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This paper is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Karl Esser on the occasion of the 70th anniversary (March 19, 1994) of his birthday
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Gunge, N., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, K. et al. UV hypersensitivity of yeast linear plasmids. Curr Genet 26, 369–373 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00310503
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