Germ-Line Effects of a Mutator, Mu2, in Drosophila Melanogaster
AUTOR(ES)
Mason, J. M.
RESUMO
A mutator, mu2(a), in Drosophila melanogaster potentiates terminal deficiencies. In the female germ line the y mutant frequency induced by irradiation of mature oocytes with 5 Gy increases approximately twofold in heterozygotes and 20-fold in homozygotes compared with wild type. The recovery of terminal deficiencies is not limited to breaks close to chromosome ends; high frequencies of deficiencies can be recovered with breakpoints located in centric heterochromatin or near the middle of a chromosome arm. Lesions induced by γ-rays are repaired slowly in mu2(a) oocytes, but become ``fixed'' as terminal deficiencies upon fertilization. A few lesions induced in wild-type females also produce terminal deficiencies. Mutator males do not exhibit an increase in terminal deletions, regardless of the germ cell stage irradiated. In addition, there is no increase in the mutant frequency when mature sperm are irradiated and fertilize eggs produced by mu2(a) females. The data are consistent with the hypothesis that lesions induced in sperm chromosomes are repaired after fertilization, while lesions induced in oocyte chromosomes are shunted instead to a mechanism that stabilizes broken chromosome ends. We propose that mu2 affects chromosomal structure during oogenesis, thereby modulating DNA repair.
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