The conversion of the mating-type locus from one allele to another resulting from the recombinational repair of a site-specific double-strand break at the mating-type locus with information from a silent donor sequence. There is no reciprocal exchange of information because the mating-type locus copies information from the donor sequence and the donor sequence remains unchanged. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7646483 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9928492 GOC:elh http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10716938 ]
Synonyms: strand invasion involved in gene conversion at mating-type locus
Term information
gene conversion at mating-type locus, DNA double-strand break formation
heteroduplex formation involved in gene conversion at mating-type locus
gene conversion at mating-type locus, DNA repair synthesis
gene conversion at mating-type locus, DNA double-strand break processing
gene conversion at mating-type locus, termination of copy-synthesis
Term relations
- mitotic recombination
- gene conversion
- has part some heteroduplex formation
- has part some DNA double-strand break processing
- part of some mating type switching
- has part some site-specific DNA replication termination
- has part some DNA strand invasion
- has part some DNA synthesis involved in DNA repair