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Each strain was auxotrophic for an amino acid, vitamin, or nucleotide.
For each in silico deletion strain, the optimal production of the twelve biosynthetic precursors and the metabolic cofactors was also calculated to identify auxotrophic requirements and impaired functions in the metabolic network (Table 1).
The triple auxotrophic transformants were tested for β-galactosidase activity using the filter paper assay described in the manual provided by Clontech.
Our observation that rec12-117 mutants produce a high frequency of viable diploid meiotic products, about half of which are heterozygous for centromere linked markers (Figures 4, 5, Table 2), provides a straightforward reason for the discrepancy: The previous study failed to exclude diploid spore colonies and scored only for double prototrophic recombinants (the double auxotrophic, reciprocal recombinants were not analyzed).
An alternative TS or its subunit is predicted to be encoded by a gene from Dictyostelium that rescues a slime mold mutant auxotrophic for thymidylate [ 30].