Deoxyribonucleic acid plasmids in yeasts.
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Downloaded from http://mmbr.asm.org/ on December 24, 2011 by deepdyve Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://mmbr.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ MICROBIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, Sept. 1989, p. 299-317 0146-0749/89/030299-19$02.00/0 Copyright C) 1989, American Society for Microbiology Vol. 53, No. 3 FREDRIC C. VOLKERT,1 DUNCAN W. WILSON,2 AND JAMES R. BROACH2* Department of Microbiology and Immunology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York 11203-2098,' and Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 085442 INTRODUCTION THE 299 CIRCLE OF S. CEREVISIAE .................................................................... Biology of the Circle Phenotypes associated with the circle ...................................................................... Structure of the Genome Circle organization Downloaded from http://mmbr.asm.org/ on December 24, 2011 by deepdyve circle variants Molecular Basis for Persistence stability partitioning (i) Genetic components (ii) Possible mechanisms amplification Regulation of gene expression and control of copy number Contribution of copy control and amplification to stable persistence ................................ .................... CIRCLE-LIKE S OF YEASTS Distribution and Structures of Circular dsDNA s of Yeasts ............................................... 305 Functional Analysis of Circle-Like recombination s ...................................................................... 306 ARS elements Site-specific Stability functions Origin of Circle-Like s ...................................................................... LINEAR