Reference: Al-Sweel N, et al. (2017) mlh3 mutations in baker's yeast alter meiotic recombination outcomes by increasing noncrossover events genome-wide. PLoS Genet 13(8):e1006974

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Mlh1-MLH3 is an endonuclease hypothesized to act in meiosis to resolve double Holliday junctions into crossovers. It also plays a minor role in eukaryotic DNA mismatch repair (MMR). To understand how Mlh1-MLH3 functions in both meiosis and MMR, we analyzed in baker's yeast 60 new MLH3 alleles. Five alleles specifically disrupted MMR, whereas one (MLH3-32) specifically disrupted meiotic crossing over. Mlh1-MLH3 representatives for each class were purified and characterized. Both Mlh1-MLH3-32 (MMR+, crossover-) and Mlh1-MLH3-45 (MMR-, crossover+) displayed wild-type endonuclease activities in vitro. Msh2-Msh3, an MSH complex that acts with Mlh1-MLH3 in MMR, stimulated the endonuclease activity of Mlh1-MLH3-32 but not Mlh1-MLH3-45, suggesting that Mlh1-MLH3-45 is defective in MSH interactions. Whole genome recombination maps were constructed for wild-type and MMR+ crossover-, MMR- crossover+, endonuclease defective and null MLH3 mutants in an S288c/YJM789 hybrid background. Compared to wild-type, all of the MLH3 mutants showed increases in the number of noncrossover events, consistent with recombination intermediates being resolved through alternative recombination pathways. Our observations provide a structure-function map for MLH3 that reveals the importance of protein-protein interactions in regulating Mlh1-MLH3's enzymatic activity. They also illustrate how defective meiotic components can alter the fate of meiotic recombination intermediates, providing new insights for how meiotic recombination pathways are regulated.

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Al-Sweel N, Raghavan V, Dutta A, Ajith VP, Di Vietro L, Khondakar N, Manhart CM, Surtees JA, Nishant KT, Alani E
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