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RNA:DNA hybrids from Okazaki fragments contribute to establish the Ku-mediated barrier to replication-fork degradation. Mol Cell 2023; 83:1061-1074.e6. [PMID: 36868227 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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Nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) factors act in replication-fork protection, restart, and repair. Here, we identified a mechanism related to RNA:DNA hybrids to establish the NHEJ factor Ku-mediated barrier to nascent strand degradation in fission yeast. RNase H activities promote nascent strand degradation and replication restart, with a prominent role of RNase H2 in processing RNA:DNA hybrids to overcome the Ku barrier to nascent strand degradation. RNase H2 cooperates with the MRN-Ctp1 axis to sustain cell resistance to replication stress in a Ku-dependent manner. Mechanistically, the need of RNaseH2 in nascent strand degradation requires the primase activity that allows establishing the Ku barrier to Exo1, whereas impairing Okazaki fragment maturation reinforces the Ku barrier. Finally, replication stress induces Ku foci in a primase-dependent manner and favors Ku binding to RNA:DNA hybrids. We propose a function for the RNA:DNA hybrid originating from Okazaki fragments in controlling the Ku barrier specifying nuclease requirement to engage fork resection.
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Singh B, Bisht KK, Upadhyay U, Kushwaha AC, Nanda JS, Srivastava S, Saini JK, Klar AJS, Singh J. Role of Cdc23/Mcm10 in generating the ribonucleotide imprint at the mat1 locus in fission yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:3422-3433. [PMID: 30759238 PMCID: PMC6468313 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The developmental asymmetry of fission yeast daughter cells derives from inheriting ‘older Watson’ versus ‘older Crick’ DNA strand from the parental cell, strands that are complementary but not identical with each other. A novel DNA strand-specific ‘imprint’, installed during DNA replication at the mating-type locus (mat1), imparts competence for cell type inter-conversion to one of the two chromosome replicas. The catalytic subunit of DNA Polymerase α (Polα) has been implicated in the imprinting process. Based on its known biochemical function, Polα might install the mat1 imprint during lagging strand synthesis. The nature of the imprint is not clear: it is either a nick or a ribonucleotide insertion. Our investigations do not support a direct role of Polα in nicking through putative endonuclease domains but confirm its indirect role in installing an alkali-labile moiety as the imprint. While ruling out the role of the primase subunit of Polα holoenzyme, we find that mutations in the Polα-recruitment and putative primase homology domain in Mcm10/Cdc23 abrogate the ribonucleotide imprint formation. These results, while confirming the ribonucleotide nature of the imprint suggest the possibility of a direct role of Mcm10/Cdc23 in installing it in cooperation with Polα and Swi1.
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- Balveer Singh
- Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, Faculte de Medecine, Campus santé de Villejean, 2 avenue du Professor Leon Bernard, CS 34317, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France
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- Translational Discovery Biology, (Immuno-Oncology), Bristol-Myers Squibb Route 206 & Province Line Road, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, RMSB 8022, 1600 NW, 10th Ave., Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- QC Division, Central Research Institute, Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh 173204, India
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- Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh 160036, India
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- Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Building 539, Room 154, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
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- Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh 160036, India
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A whole-genome RNA interference screen for human cell factors affecting myxoma virus replication. J Virol 2013; 87:4623-41. [PMID: 23408614 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02617-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Myxoma virus (MYXV) provides an important model for investigating host-pathogen interactions. Recent studies have also highlighted how mutations in transformed human cells can expand the host range of this rabbit virus. Although virus growth depends upon interactions between virus and host proteins, the nature of these interactions is poorly understood. To address this matter, we performed small interfering RNA (siRNA) screens for genes affecting MYXV growth in human MDA-MB-231 cells. By using siRNAs targeting the whole human genome (21,585 genes), a subset of human phosphatases and kinases (986 genes), and also a custom siRNA library targeting selected statistically significant genes ("hits") and nonsignificant genes ("nonhits") of the whole human genome screens (88 genes), we identified 711 siRNA pools that promoted MYXV growth and 333 that were inhibitory. Another 32 siRNA pools (mostly targeting the proteasome) were toxic. The overall overlap in the results was about 25% for the hits and 75% for the nonhits. These pro- and antiviral genes can be clustered into pathways and related groups, including well-established inflammatory and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways, as well as clusters relating to β-catenin and the Wnt signaling cascade, the cell cycle, and cellular metabolism. The validity of a subset of these hits was independently confirmed. For example, treating cells with siRNAs that might stabilize cells in G(1), or inhibit passage into S phase, stimulated MYXV growth, and these effects were reproduced by trapping cells at the G(1)/S boundary with an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases 4/6. By using 2-deoxy-D-glucose and plasmids carrying the gene for phosphofructokinase, we also confirmed that infection is favored by aerobic glycolytic metabolism. These studies provide insights into how the growth state and structure of cells affect MYXV growth and how these factors might be manipulated to advantage in oncolytic virus therapy.
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Wang JD, Sanders GM, Grossman AD. Nutritional control of elongation of DNA replication by (p)ppGpp. Cell 2007; 128:865-75. [PMID: 17350574 PMCID: PMC1850998 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2006] [Revised: 12/04/2006] [Accepted: 12/06/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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DNA replication is highly regulated in most organisms. Although much research has focused on mechanisms that regulate initiation of replication, mechanisms that regulate elongation of replication are less well understood. We characterized a mechanism that regulates replication elongation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Replication elongation was inhibited within minutes after amino acid starvation, regardless of where the replication forks were located on the chromosome. We found that small nucleotides ppGpp and pppGpp, which are induced upon starvation, appeared to inhibit replication directly by inhibiting primase, an essential component of the replication machinery. The replication forks arrested with (p)ppGpp did not recruit the recombination protein RecA, indicating that the forks are not disrupted. (p)ppGpp appear to be part of a surveillance mechanism that links nutrient availability to replication by rapidly inhibiting replication in starved cells, thereby preventing replication-fork disruption. This control may be important for cells to maintain genomic integrity.
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- Jue D. Wang
- Department of Biology Building 68-530 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139
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- Department of Biology Building 68-530 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139
- *correspondence to: Alan D. Grossman, Department of Biology, Building 68-530, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, phone: (617) 253-1515, fax: (617) 253-2643, e-mail:
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Chung HJ, Liu J, Dundr M, Nie Z, Sanford S, Levens D. FBPs are calibrated molecular tools to adjust gene expression. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:6584-97. [PMID: 16914741 PMCID: PMC1592819 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00754-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2006] [Revised: 05/30/2006] [Accepted: 06/09/2006] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The three far-upstream element (FUSE) binding protein (FBP) family members have been ascribed different functions in gene regulation. They were therefore examined with various biochemical, molecular biological, and cell biological tests to evaluate whether their sequence differences reflect functional customization or neutral changes at unselected residues. Each FBP displayed a characteristic profile of intrinsic transcription activation and repression, binding with protein partners, and subcellular trafficking. Although some differences, such as weakened FBP3 nuclear localization, were predictable from primary sequence differences, the unexpected failure of FBP3 to bind the FBP-interacting repressor (FIR) was traced to seemingly conservative substitutions within a small patch of an N-terminal alpha-helix. The transactivation strength and the FIR-binding strength of the FBPs were in the opposite order. Despite their distinguishing features and differential activities, the FBPs traffic to shared subnuclear sites and regulate many common target genes, including c-myc. Though a variety of functions have been attributed to the FBPs, based upon their panel of shared and unique features, we propose that they constitute a molecular regulatory kit that tunes the expression of shared targets through a common mechanism.
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- Hye-Jung Chung
- Laboratory of Pathology, CCR, NCI, Bldg. 10, Rm. 2N106, Bethesda, MD 20892-1500, USA
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Yang X, Gregan J, Lindner K, Young H, Kearsey SE. Nuclear distribution and chromatin association of DNA polymerase alpha-primase is affected by TEV protease cleavage of Cdc23 (Mcm10) in fission yeast. BMC Mol Biol 2005; 6:13. [PMID: 15941470 PMCID: PMC1182370 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-6-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2005] [Accepted: 06/07/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cdc23/Mcm10 is required for the initiation and elongation steps of DNA replication but its biochemical function is unclear. Here, we probe its function using a novel approach in fission yeast, involving Cdc23 cleavage by the TEV protease. RESULTS Insertion of a TEV protease cleavage site into Cdc23 allows in vivo removal of the C-terminal 170 aa of the protein by TEV protease induction, resulting in an S phase arrest. This C-terminal fragment of Cdc23 is not retained in the nucleus after cleavage, showing that it lacks a nuclear localization signal and ability to bind to chromatin. Using an in situ chromatin binding procedure we have determined how the S phase chromatin association of DNA polymerase alpha-primase and the GINS (Sld5-Psf1-Psf2-Psf3) complex is affected by Cdc23 inactivation. The chromatin binding and sub-nuclear distribution of DNA primase catalytic subunit (Spp1) is affected by Cdc23 cleavage and also by inactivation of Cdc23 using a degron allele, implying that DNA polymerase alpha-primase function is dependent on Cdc23. In contrast to the effect on Spp1, the chromatin association of the Psf2 subunit of the GINS complex is not affected by Cdc23 inactivation. CONCLUSION An important function of Cdc23 in the elongation step of DNA replication may be to assist in the docking of DNA polymerase alpha-primase to chromatin.
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- Xiaowen Yang
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS UK
- Current address: Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS UK
- Current address: IMP, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 7, A-1030, Austria
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS UK
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Yuasa T, Hayashi T, Ikai N, Katayama T, Aoki K, Obara T, Toyoda Y, Maruyama T, Kitagawa D, Takahashi K, Nagao K, Nakaseko Y, Yanagida M. An interactive gene network for securin-separase, condensin, cohesin, Dis1/Mtc1 and histones constructed by mass transformation. Genes Cells 2004; 9:1069-82. [PMID: 15507118 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2004.00790.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The small genome of fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe contains 4824 predicted genes and gene disruption suggests that approximately 850 are essential for viability. To obtain information on interactions among genes required for chromosome segregation, an approach called Strategy B was taken using mass transformation of the 1015 temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants that were made by random mutagenesis and transformed by plasmids carrying the genes for securin, separase, condensin, cohesin, kinetochore microtubule-binding proteins Dis1/Mtc1 or histones. Mutant strains whose phenotypes were either suppressed or inhibited by plasmids were selected. Each plasmid interacted positively or negatively with the average 14 strains. Identification of the mutant gene products by cloning revealed many hitherto unknown interactions. The interactive networks of segregation therefore may consist of genes with a variety of functions. For example, separase/Cut1 interacts with Cdc48/p97/VCP, which stabilizes securin and separase. Surprisingly, S. pombe cdc48 mutants displayed the mitotic phenotype highly similar to separase/cut1 mutants. This approach also provides a novel way of mutant isolation, resulting in two histone H2B strains and a cohesion mutant with a new phenotype.
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- Tatsuro Yuasa
- Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Uchiyama M, Wang TSF. The B-subunit of DNA polymerase alpha-primase associates with the origin recognition complex for initiation of DNA replication. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:7419-34. [PMID: 15314153 PMCID: PMC506996 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.17.7419-7434.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2004] [Revised: 04/28/2004] [Accepted: 06/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The B-subunit (p70/Pol12p) of the DNA polymerase alpha-primase (Polalpha-primase) complex is thought to have a regulatory role in an early stage of S phase. We generated a panel of fission yeast thermosensitive mutants of the B-subunit (termed Spb70) to investigate its role in initiation of DNA replication by genetic and biochemical approaches. Here, we show that the fission yeast Spb70 genetically interacts and coprecipitates with origin recognition complex proteins Orp1/Orc1 and Orp2/Orc2 and primase coupling subunit Spp2/p58. A fraction of Spb70 associates with Orp2 on chromatin throughout the cell cycle independent of the other subunits of Polalpha-primase. Furthermore, primase Spp2/p58 subunit preferentially associates with the unphosphorylated Orp2, and the association requires Spb70. Mutations in orp2+ that abolish or mimic the Cdc2 phosphorylation of Orp2 suppress or exacerbate the thermosensitivity of the spb70 mutants, respectively, indicating that an unphosphorylated Orp2 promotes an Spb70-dependent replication event. Together, these results indicate that the chromatin-bound B-subunit in association with origin recognition complex mediates recruiting Polalpha-primase complex onto replication origins in G1 pre-Start through an interaction with primase Spp2/p58 subunit. Our results thus suggest a role for the recruited Polalpha-primase in the initiation of both leading and lagging strands at the replication origins.
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- Masashi Uchiyama
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, MED CTR R-272, Stanford, CA 94305-5324, USA
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Dahlén M, Sunnerhagen P, Wang TSF. Replication proteins influence the maintenance of telomere length and telomerase protein stability. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:3031-42. [PMID: 12697806 PMCID: PMC153188 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.9.3031-3042.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2002] [Revised: 09/09/2002] [Accepted: 02/09/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We investigated the effects of fission yeast replication genes on telomere length maintenance and identified 20 mutant alleles that confer lengthening or shortening of telomeres. The telomere elongation was telomerase dependent in the replication mutants analyzed. Furthermore, the telomerase catalytic subunit, Trt1, and the principal initiation and lagging-strand synthesis DNA polymerase, Polalpha, were reciprocally coimmunoprecipitated, indicating these proteins physically coexist as a complex in vivo. In a polalpha mutant that exhibited abnormal telomere lengthening and slightly reduced telomere position effect, the cellular level of the Trt1 protein was significantly lower and the coimmunoprecipitation of Trt1 and Polalpha was severely compromised compared to those in the wild-type polalpha cells. Interestingly, ectopic expression of wild-type polalpha in this polalpha mutant restored the cellular Trt1 protein to the wild-type level and shortened the telomeres to near-wild-type length. These results suggest that there is a close physical relationship between the replication and telomerase complexes. Thus, mutation of a component of the replication complex can affect the telomeric complex in maintaining both telomere length equilibrium and telomerase protein stability.
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- Maria Dahlén
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5324, USA
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Tercero JA, Longhese MP, Diffley JFX. A central role for DNA replication forks in checkpoint activation and response. Mol Cell 2003; 11:1323-36. [PMID: 12769855 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00169-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 294] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The checkpoint proteins Rad53 and Mec1-Ddc2 regulate many aspects of cell metabolism in response to DNA damage. We have examined the relative importance of downstream checkpoint effectors on cell viability. Checkpoint regulation of mitosis, gene expression, and late origin firing make only modest contributions to viability. By contrast, the checkpoint is essential for preventing irreversible breakdown of stalled replication forks. Moreover, recruitment of Ddc2 to nuclear foci and subsequent activation of the Rad53 kinase only occur during S phase and require the assembly of replication forks. Thus, DNA replication forks are both activators and primary effectors of the checkpoint pathway in S phase.
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- José Antonio Tercero
- Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Herts EN6 3LD, United Kingdom
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Murakami H, Yanow SK, Griffiths D, Nakanishi M, Nurse P. Maintenance of replication forks and the S-phase checkpoint by Cdc18p and Orp1p. Nat Cell Biol 2002; 4:384-8. [PMID: 11988741 DOI: 10.1038/ncb789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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S-phase and DNA damage checkpoint controls block the onset of mitosis when DNA is damaged or DNA replication is incomplete. It has been proposed that damaged or incompletely replicated DNA generates structures that are sensed by the checkpoint control pathway, although little is known about the structures and mechanisms involved. Here, we show that the DNA replication initiation proteins Orp1p and Cdc18p are required to induce and maintain the S-phase checkpoint in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The presence of DNA replication structures correlates with activation of the Cds1p checkpoint protein kinase and the S-phase checkpoint pathway. By contrast, induction of the DNA damage pathway is not dependent on Orp1p or Cdc18p. We propose that the presence of unresolved replication forks, together with Orp1p and Cdc18p, are necessary to activate the Cds1p-dependent S-phase checkpoint.
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- Hiroshi Murakami
- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK.
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Liang DT, Forsburg SL. Characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcm7(+) and cdc23(+) (MCM10) and interactions with replication checkpoints. Genetics 2001; 159:471-86. [PMID: 11606526 PMCID: PMC1461838 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/159.2.471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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MCM proteins are required for the proper regulation of DNA replication. We cloned fission yeast mcm7(+) and showed it is essential for viability; spores lacking mcm7(+) begin S phase later than wild-type cells and arrest with an apparent 2C DNA content. We isolated a novel temperature-sensitive allele, mcm7-98, and also characterized two temperature-sensitive alleles of the fission yeast homolog of MCM10, cdc23(+). mcm7-98 and both cdc23ts alleles arrest with damaged chromosomes and an S phase delay. We find that mcm7-98 is synthetically lethal with the other mcmts mutants but does not interact genetically with either cdc23ts allele. However, cdc23-M36 interacts with mcm4ts. Unlike other mcm mutants or cdc23, mcm7-98 is synthetically lethal with checkpoint mutants Deltacds1, Deltachk1, or Deltarad3, suggesting chromosomal defects even at permissive temperature. Mcm7p is a nuclear protein throughout the cell cycle, and its localization is dependent on the other MCM proteins. Our data suggest that the Mcm3p-Mcm5p dimer interacts with the Mcm4p-Mcm6p-Mcm7p core complex through Mcm7p.
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- D T Liang
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, 92093, USA
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Kuwahara K, Tomiyasu S, Fujimura S, Nomura K, Xing Y, Nishiyama N, Ogawa M, Imajoh-Ohmi S, Izuta S, Sakaguchi N. Germinal center-associated nuclear protein (GANP) has a phosphorylation-dependent DNA-primase activity that is up-regulated in germinal center regions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:10279-83. [PMID: 11526238 PMCID: PMC56952 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.181335698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Antigen stimulation induces a rapid proliferation of B cells for expansion of specific B cell clones and their further differentiation into antibody-producing cells in germinal centers of T-dependent antigen-immunized mice. Previously, we identified a 210-kDa germinal center-associated nuclear protein (GANP) that is up-regulated selectively in germinal centers and carries an MCM-binding domain in the carboxyl-terminal side. In addition, here, we found a region (from 414 to 550 aa) in GANP molecule that is slightly similar to the known DNA-primase component p49. The recombinant GANP fragment covering this region synthesizes RNA primers for extension by DNA polymerase I with single-stranded DNA templates in vitro. GANP DNA-primase activity is controlled by phosphorylation at Ser(502) that is induced by CD40-mediated signaling in vitro and in the germinal center B cells stimulated with antigen in vivo. Overexpression of ganp cDNA in Daudi B cells caused the increased DNA synthesis more than the levels of the mock-transfectants. These evidences suggested that the novel DNA-primase GANP is involved in regulation of cell proliferation of antigen-driven B cells in germinal centers.
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- K Kuwahara
- Departments of Immunology and Surgery II, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, 2-2-1, Honjo, Kumamoto 860-0811, Japan
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Uchiyama M, Griffiths D, Arai K, Masai H. Essential role of Sna41/Cdc45 in loading of DNA polymerase alpha onto minichromosome maintenance proteins in fission yeast. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:26189-96. [PMID: 11344166 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m100007200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Assembly of replication complexes at the replication origins is strictly regulated. Cdc45p is known to be a part of the active replication complexes. In Xenopus egg extracts, Cdc45p was shown to be required for loading of DNA polymerase alpha onto chromatin. The fission yeast cdc45 homologue was identified as a suppressor for nda4 and named sna41. Nevertheless, it is not known how Cdc45p facilitates loading of DNA polymerase alpha onto chromatin, particularly to prereplicative complexes. To gain novel insight into the function of this protein in fission yeast, we characterized the fission yeast Cdc45 homologue, Sna41p. We have constructed C-terminally epitope-tagged Sna41p and Pol alpha p and replaced the endogenous genes with the corresponding tagged genes. Analyses of protein-protein interactions in vivo by the use of these tagged strains revealed the following: Sna41p interacts with Pol alpha p throughout the cell cycle, whereas it interacts with Mis5p/Mcm6p in the chromatin fractions at the G(1)-S boundary through S phase. In an initiation-defective sna41 mutant, sna41(goa1), interaction of Pol alpha p with Mis5p is not observed, although Pol alpha p loading onto the chromatin that occurs before G(1) START is not affected. These results show that fission yeast Sna41p facilitates the loading of Pol alpha p onto minichromosome maintenance proteins. Our results are consistent with a model in which loading of Pol alpha p onto replication origins occurs through two steps, namely, loading onto chromatin at preSTART and association with prereplicative complexes at G(1)-S through Sna41p, which interacts with minichromosome maintenance proteins in a cell cycle-dependent manner.
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- M Uchiyama
- Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute for Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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Current Awareness. Yeast 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/yea.685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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