Importance of RecFOR in homologous recombination mechanism in

Sato, Katsuya; Kikuchi, Masahiro; Oba, Hirofumi*; Yamada, Mitsugu; Tejima, Kohei; Onodera, Takefumi; Narumi, Issei

In an effort to gain an insight into the role of the RecFOR in DNA repair through homologous recombination in , we generated a RecFOR disruptant strains and characterized the disruption effects. The RecF disruptant strain exhibited sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, suggesting that RecF has a crucial role in DNA repair. This result indicates that RecF takes an important role in the RecA activation in the homologous recombination process with DNA damage. While, the recombination assay revealed that RecR is essential for the process of homologous intermolecular recombination, suggesting that RecR is important factor in the homologous recombination process without DNA damage. The importance of RecF and RecR in the homologous recombination processes is reversed due to the existence of DNA damage. Therefore, will use the different homologous recombination processes through the RecFOR or RecOR, respectively.