Humanizing mismatch repair in yeast: towards effective identification of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer alleles

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1525-1528 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.M.R. Aldred ◽  
R.H. Borts

The correction of replication errors is an essential component of genetic stability. This is clearly demonstrated in humans by the observation that mutations in mismatch repair genes lead to HNPCC (hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer). This disease accounts for as many as 2–3% of colon cancers. Of these, most of them are in the two central components of mismatch repair, MLH1 (mutLhomologue 1) and MSH2 (mutShomologue 2). MLH1 and MSH2 function as a complex with two other genes PMS2 and MSH6. Mismatch repair genes, and the mechanism that ensures that incorrectly paired bases are removed, are conserved from prokaryotes to human. Thus yeast can serve as a model organism for analysing mutations/polymorphisms found in human mismatch repair genes for their effect on post-replicative repair. To date, this has predominantly been accomplished by making the analogous mutations in yeast genes. However, this approach is only useful for the most highly conserved regions. Here, we discuss some of the benefits and technical difficulties involved in expressing human genes in yeast. Modelling human mismatch repair in yeast will allow the assessment of any functional effect of novel polymorphisms found in patients diagnosed with colon cancers.

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Liu ◽  
Siobhan Wahlberg ◽  
Carlos Rubio ◽  
Eva Holmberg ◽  
Henrik Grönberg ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e13623-e13623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Manoukian Forones ◽  
Fernanda Tereza Lima ◽  
Renan Paulo Martin ◽  
Leonardo Martins ◽  
Patricia Valera Lima Teixeira ◽  
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Author(s):  
Sonal Gupta ◽  
Manisha Mathur ◽  
Beiping Miao ◽  
Prashanth Suravajhala ◽  
Obul Reddy Bandapalli

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