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DNA mismatch repair preferentially protects genes from mutation
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Belfield EJ
; Ding ZJ
; Jamieson FJC
; Visscher AM
; Zheng SJ
; Mithani A
; Harberd NP
Genome Res
2018[Jan]; 28
(1
): 66-74
PMID29233924
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Mutation is the source of genetic variation and fuels biological evolution. Many
mutations first arise as DNA replication errors. These errors subsequently evade
correction by cellular DNA repair, for example, by the well-known DNA mismatch
repair (MMR) mechanism. Here, we determine the genome-wide effects of MMR on
mutation. We first identify almost 9000 mutations accumulated over five
generations in eight MMR-deficient mutation accumulation (MA) lines of the model
plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana We then show that MMR deficiency greatly
increases the frequency of both smaller-scale insertions and deletions (indels)
and of single-nucleotide variant (SNV) mutations. Most indels involve A or T
nucleotides and occur preferentially in homopolymeric (poly A or poly T) genomic
stretches. In addition, we find that the likelihood of occurrence of indels in
homopolymeric stretches is strongly related to stretch length, and that this
relationship causes ultrahigh localized mutation rates in specific homopolymeric
stretch regions. For SNVs, we show that MMR deficiency both increases their
frequency and changes their molecular mutational spectrum, causing further
enhancement of the GC to AT bias characteristic of organisms with normal MMR
function. Our final genome-wide analyses show that MMR deficiency
disproportionately increases the numbers of SNVs in genes, rather than in
nongenic regions of the genome. This latter observation indicates that MMR
preferentially protects genes from mutation and has important consequences for
understanding the evolution of genomes during both natural selection and human
tumor growth.