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Przewloka MR, Pardington PE, Yannone SM, Chen DJ, Cary RB. In vitro and in vivo interactions of DNA ligase IV with a subunit of the condensin complex. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:685-97. [PMID: 12589063 PMCID: PMC150001 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e01-11-0117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Several findings have revealed a likely role for DNA ligase IV, and interacting protein XRCC4, in the final steps of mammalian DNA double-strand break repair. Recent evidence suggests that the human DNA ligase IV protein plays a critical role in the maintenance of genomic stability. To identify protein-protein interactions that may shed further light on the molecular mechanisms of DSB repair and the biological roles of human DNA ligase IV, we have used the yeast two-hybrid system in conjunction with traditional biochemical methods. These efforts have resulted in the identification of a physical association between the DNA ligase IV polypeptide and the human condensin subunit known as hCAP-E. The hCAP-E polypeptide, a member of the Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) super-family of proteins, coimmunoprecipitates from cell extracts with DNA ligase IV. Immunofluorescence studies reveal colocalization of DNA ligase IV and hCAP-E in the interphase nucleus, whereas mitotic cells display colocalization of both polypeptides on mitotic chromosomes. Strikingly, the XRCC4 protein is excluded from the area of mitotic chromosomes, suggesting the formation of specialized DNA ligase IV complexes subject to cell cycle regulation. We discuss our findings in light of known and hypothesized roles for ligase IV and the condensin complex.
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- Marcin R Przewloka
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Biosciences Division, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Checkpoint proteins were initially identified because their loss of function resulted in defects in cell cycle arrest in response to genotoxic treatments. Initially, the analysis of checkpoint pathways concentrated on their function as signal transducers and how the checkpoint signals were communicated to the core cell cycle machinery and transcriptional apparatus. Although some of the early genetic analysis indicated a complex relationship between DNA replication, DNA repair and the checkpoint pathways, it is only now becoming apparent that checkpoint proteins regulate multiple DNA repair and replication functions. Furthermore, recent data suggest that some checkpoint proteins may participate directly in DNA repair events. In this review I summarise the current models for DNA structure-dependent checkpoint activation and review the evidence linking checkpoint proteins both directly and indirectly to DNA repair.
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- Antony M Carr
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK.
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Herrmann U, Soppa J. Cell cycle-dependent expression of an essential SMC-like protein and dynamic chromosome localization in the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum. Mol Microbiol 2002; 46:395-409. [PMID: 12406217 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03181.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The genome of Halobacterium salinarum encodes four proteins of the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein superfamily. Two proteins form a novel subfamily and are named 'SMC-like proteins of H. salinarum' (Sph1 and Sph2). Northern blot analyses revealed that sph1 and hp24, the adjacent gene, are solely transcribed in exponentially growing, but not in stationary phase, cells. A synchronization procedure was developed, which makes use of the DNA polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin and leads to highly synchronous cultures. It allowed us for the first time to study cell cycle-dependent transcription in an archaeon. The sph1 transcript was found to be highly cell cycle regulated, with its maximal accumulation around the time of septum formation. The Sph1 protein level was also elevated at that time, but a basal protein level was found throughout the cell cycle. The hp24 transcript was sharply upregulated about 1 h before sph1 and had already declined at the time of sph1 induction. These and additional transcript patterns revealed that precisely controlled transcriptional regulation is involved in haloarchaeal cell cycle progression. A DNA staining protocol was developed, which opened the possibility of following the dynamic intracellular localization of haloarchaeal nucleoids using synchronized cultures. After an initial dispersed localization, the nucleoid is condensed at mid-cell. Subsequently, DNA is rapidly transported to the 1/4 and 3/4 positions. All staining patterns were also observed in untreated exponentially growing cells, excluding synchronization artifacts. The Sph1 concentration is elevated when segregation of the new chromosomes is nearly complete; therefore, it is proposed to play a role in a late step of replication, e.g. DNA repair, similar to eukaryotic Rad18 proteins.
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- Ute Herrmann
- J W Goethe-Universität, Biozentrum Niederusel, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Frankfurt, Germany
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Hanway D, Chin JK, Xia G, Oshiro G, Winzeler EA, Romesberg FE. Previously uncharacterized genes in the UV- and MMS-induced DNA damage response in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:10605-10. [PMID: 12149442 PMCID: PMC124988 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.152264899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A competitive growth assay has been used to identify yeast genes involved in the repair of UV- or MMS-induced DNA damage. A collection of 2,827 yeast strains was analyzed in which each strain has a single ORF replaced with a cassette containing two unique sequence tags, allowing for its detection by hybridization to a high-density oligonucleotide array. The hybridization data identify a high percentage of the deletion strains present in the collection that were previously characterized as being sensitive to the DNA-damaging agents. The assay, and subsequent analysis, has been used to identify six genes not formerly known to be involved in the damage response, whose deletion renders the yeast sensitive to UV or MMS treatment. The recently identified genes include three uncharacterized ORFs, as well as genes that encode protein products implicated in ubiquitination, gene silencing, and transport across the mitochondrial membrane. Epistatsis analysis of four of the genes was performed to determine the DNA damage repair pathways in which the protein products function.
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- Denise Hanway
- Department of Chemistry and Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Beasley M, Xu H, Warren W, McKay M. Conserved disruptions in the predicted coiled-coil domains of eukaryotic SMC complexes: implications for structure and function. Genome Res 2002; 12:1201-9. [PMID: 12176928 PMCID: PMC186632 DOI: 10.1101/gr107302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) proteins are required for a number of essential nuclear processes, including those of chromosome condensation, chromatid cohesion, and DNA repair. Eukaryotic SMC proteins form heterodimers capable of binding DNA and possess a DNA-stimulated ATPase activity. They have a characteristic structure of terminal globular domains with two internal arms that are predicted to form a coiled-coil structure interspaced with a globular "hinge" domain. We report here that the predicted coiled-coil arms are disrupted at conserved sites in SMC proteins. These disruptions, which vary in length and sequence identity, abolish the otherwise symmetrical secondary structure of antiparallel SMC heterodimers and provide the first evidence for a possible functional orientation of eukaryotic SMC complexes. The retention of these breaks between evolutionarily distant, yet related, SMC members indicates that they may have a fundamental role in SMC heterodimer function.
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- Matthew Beasley
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia
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Fujioka Y, Kimata Y, Nomaguchi K, Watanabe K, Kohno K. Identification of a novel non-structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) component of the SMC5-SMC6 complex involved in DNA repair. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:21585-91. [PMID: 11927594 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m201523200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins play central roles in chromosome organization and dynamics. They have been classified into six subtypes, termed SMC1 to SMC6, and function as heterodimer components of large protein complexes that also include several non-SMC proteins. The SMC2-SMC4 and SMC1-SMC3 complexes are also known as condensin and cohesin, respectively, but the recently identified SMC5 and SMC6 complex is less well characterized. Here, we report that NSE1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a novel non-SMC component of the SMC5(Yol034wp)-SMC6(Rhc18p) complex corresponding to the 2-3-MDa molecular mass. Nse1p is essential for cell proliferation and localizes primarily in the nucleus. nse1 mutants are highly sensitive to DNA-damaging treatments and exhibit abnormal cellular morphologies, suggesting aberrant mitosis as a terminal morphological phenotype. These results are consistent with the reported features of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe SMC6 gene, rad18, which is thought to be involved in recombinational DNA repair. We conclude that Nse1p and the SMC5-SMC6 heterodimer together form a high molecular mass complex that is conserved in eukaryotes and required for both DNA repair and proliferation.
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- Yoko Fujioka
- Research and Education Center for Genetic Information, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
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Morishita T, Tsutsui Y, Iwasaki H, Shinagawa H. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad60 gene is essential for repairing double-strand DNA breaks spontaneously occurring during replication and induced by DNA-damaging agents. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:3537-48. [PMID: 11971984 PMCID: PMC133806 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.10.3537-3548.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To identify novel genes involved in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, we previously isolated Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutants which are hypersensitive to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and synthetic lethals with rad2. This study characterizes one of these mutants, rad60-1. The gene that complements the MMS sensitivity of this mutant was cloned and designated rad60. rad60 encodes a protein with 406 amino acids which has the conserved ubiquitin-2 motif found in ubiquitin family proteins. rad60-1 is hypersensitive to UV and gamma rays, epistatic to rhp51, and defective in the repair of DSBs caused by gamma-irradiation. The rad60-1 mutant is also temperature sensitive for growth. At the restrictive temperature (37 degrees C), rad60-1 cells grow for several divisions and then arrest with 2C DNA content; the arrested cells accumulate DSBs and have a diffuse and often aberrantly shaped nuclear chromosomal domain. The rad60-1 mutant is a synthetic lethal with rad18-X, and expression of wild-type rad60 from a multicopy plasmid partially suppresses the MMS sensitivity of rad18-X cells. rad18 encodes a conserved protein of the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) family (A. R. Lehmann, M. Walicka, D. J. Griffiths, J. M. Murray, F. Z. Watts, S. McCready, and A. M. Carr, Mol. Cell. Biol. 15:7067-7080, 1995). These results suggest that S. pombe Rad60 is required to repair DSBs, which accumulate during replication, by recombination between sister chromatids. Rad60 may perform this function in concert with the SMC protein Rad18.
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- Takashi Morishita
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Krien MJ, West RR, John UP, Koniaras K, McIntosh J, O’Connell MJ. The fission yeast NIMA kinase Fin1p is required for spindle function and nuclear envelope integrity. EMBO J 2002; 21:1713-22. [PMID: 11927555 PMCID: PMC125934 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/21.7.1713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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NIMA kinases appear to be the least functionally conserved mitotic regulators, being implicated in chromosome condensation in fungi and in spindle function in metazoans. We demonstrate here that the fission yeast NIMA homologue, Fin1p, can induce profound chromosome condensation in the absence of the condensin and topoisomerase II, indicating that Fin1p-induced condensation differs from mitotic condensation. Fin1p expression is transcriptionally and post-translationally cell cycle-regulated, with Fin1p kinase activity maximal from the metaphase-anaphase transition to G(1). Fin1p is localized to the spindle pole body and fin1Delta cells are hypersensitive to anti-microtubule drugs, synthetically lethal with a number of spindle mutants and require the spindle checkpoint for viability. Moreover, fin1Delta cells show unusual and extensive elaborations of the nuclear envelope. These data support a role for Fin1p in spindle function and nuclear envelope transactions at or after the metaphase-anaphase transition that may be generally applicable to other NIMA-family members.
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- Michael J.E. Krien
- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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The mechanisms used by fungal cells to repair DNA damage have been subjects of intensive investigation for almost 50 years. As a result, the model yeasts Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have led the way in yielding critical insights into the nature of the DNA damage response. At the same time, largely through the efforts of Etta Kafer, Hirokazu Inoue, and colleagues, a substantial collection of Aspergillus nidulans and Neurospora crassa DNA repair mutants has been identified and characterized in detail. As the analysis of these mutants continues and increasing amounts of annotated genome sequence become available, it is becoming readily apparent that the DNA damage response of filamentous fungi possesses several features that distinguish it from the model yeasts. These features are emphasized in this review, which describes the genes, regulatory networks, and processes that compose the fungal DNA damage response. Further characterization of this response will likely yield general insights that are applicable to animals and plants. Moreover, it may also become evident that the DNA damage response can be manipulated to control fungal growth.
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- Gustavo H Goldman
- Faculdade de Ciencias Farmaceuticas de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Hirano T. The ABCs of SMC proteins: two-armed ATPases for chromosome condensation, cohesion, and repair. Genes Dev 2002; 16:399-414. [PMID: 11850403 DOI: 10.1101/gad.955102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Tatsuya Hirano
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA.
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Harvey SH, Krien MJE, O'Connell MJ. Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins, a family of conserved ATPases. Genome Biol 2002; 3:REVIEWS3003. [PMID: 11864377 PMCID: PMC139016 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-2-reviews3003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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SUMMARY The structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins are essential for successful chromosome transmission during replication and segregation of the genome in all organisms. SMCs are generally present as single proteins in bacteria, and as at least six distinct proteins in eukaryotes. The proteins range in size from approximately 110 to 170 kDa, and each has five distinct domains: amino- and carboxy-terminal globular domains, which contain sequences characteristic of ATPases, two coiled-coil regions separating the terminal domains and a central flexible hinge. SMC proteins function together with other proteins in a range of chromosomal transactions, including chromosome condensation, sister-chromatid cohesion, recombination, DNA repair and epigenetic silencing of gene expression. Recent studies are beginning to decipher molecular details of how these processes are carried out.
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- Susan H Harvey
- Trescowthick Research Laboratories, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC 8006, Australia.
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Taylor EM, Moghraby JS, Lees JH, Smit B, Moens PB, Lehmann AR. Characterization of a novel human SMC heterodimer homologous to the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad18/Spr18 complex. Mol Biol Cell 2001; 12:1583-94. [PMID: 11408570 PMCID: PMC37326 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.12.6.1583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein encoded by the fission yeast rad18 gene is involved in several DNA repair processes and has an essential function in DNA replication and mitotic control. It has a heterodimeric partner SMC protein, Spr18, with which it forms the core of a multiprotein complex. We have now isolated the human orthologues of rad18 and spr18 and designated them hSMC6 and hSMC5. Both proteins are about 1100 amino acids in length and are 27-28% identical to their fission yeast orthologues, with much greater identity within their N- and C-terminal globular domains. The hSMC6 and hSMC5 proteins interact to form a tight complex analogous to the yeast Rad18/Spr18 heterodimer. In proliferating human cells the proteins are bound to both chromatin and the nucleoskeleton. In addition, we have detected a phosphorylated form of hSMC6 that localizes to interchromatin granule clusters. Both the total level of hSMC6 and its phosphorylated form remain constant through the cell cycle. Both hSMC5 and hSMC6 proteins are expressed at extremely high levels in the testis and associate with the sex chromosomes in the late stages of meiotic prophase, suggesting a possible role for these proteins in meiosis.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry
- Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism
- Cell Division
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Chromatin/metabolism
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Dimerization
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Fungal Proteins/chemistry
- Humans
- Meiosis
- Mice
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/metabolism
- Phosphorylation
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Schizosaccharomyces/chemistry
- Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tissue Distribution
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
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- E M Taylor
- MRC Cell Mutation Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RR, United Kingdom
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Kim WJ, Lee H, Park EJ, Park JK, Park SD. Gain- and loss-of-function of Rhp51, a Rad51 homolog in fission yeast, reveals dissimilarities in chromosome integrity. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:1724-32. [PMID: 11292845 PMCID: PMC31306 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.8.1724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2000] [Revised: 02/20/2001] [Accepted: 02/20/2001] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Rad51 is crucial not only in homologous recombination and recombinational repair but also in normal cellular growth. To address the role of Rad51 in normal cell growth we investigated morphological changes of cells after overexpression of wild-type and a dominant negative form of Rad51 in fission yeast. Rhp51, a Rad51 homolog in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has a highly conserved ATP-binding motif. Rhp51 K155A, which has a single substitution in this motif, failed to rescue hypersensitivity of a rhp51 mutant to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and UV, whereas it binds normally to Rhp51 and Rad22, a Rad52 homolog. Two distinct cellular phenotypes were observed when Rhp51 or Rhp51 K155A was overexpressed in normal cells. Overexpression of Rhp51 caused lethality in the absence of DNA-damaging agents, with acquisition of a cell cycle mutant phenotype and accumulation of a 1C DNA population. On the other hand, overexpression of Rhp51 K155A led to a delay in G(2) with decondensed nuclei, which resembled the phenotype of rhp51. The latter also exhibited MMS and UV sensitivity, indicating that Rhp51 K155A has a dominant negative effect. These results suggest an association between DNA replication and Rad51 function.
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- W J Kim
- School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Kwanak-Ku, Shilim-dong, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
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- T Humphrey
- Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Medical Research Council, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 ORD, Didcot, UK
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Fousteri MI, Lehmann AR. A novel SMC protein complex in Schizosaccharomyces pombe contains the Rad18 DNA repair protein. EMBO J 2000; 19:1691-702. [PMID: 10747036 PMCID: PMC310237 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.7.1691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, rad18 is an essential gene involved in the repair of DNA damage produced by ionizing radiation and in tolerance of UV-induced DNA damage. The Rad18 protein is a member of the SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) superfamily, and we show that, like the other SMC proteins in condensin and cohesin, Rad18 is a component of a high-molecular-weight complex. This complex contains at least six other proteins, the largest of which is Spr18, a novel SMC family member closely related to Rad18, and likely to be its heterodimeric partner. SMC proteins have ATP-binding domains at the N- and C-termini, and two extended coiled-coil domains separated by a hinge in the middle. We show that the N-terminal ATP-binding domain of Rad18 is essential for all functions, and overexpression of an N-terminal mutant has a dominant-negative effect. We have identified an important mutation (S1045A) near the C-terminus of Rad18 that separates its repair and essential roles. Potential models for the role of the Rad18-Spr18 complex during DNA repair are discussed.
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- M I Fousteri
- MRC Cell Mutation Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RR, UK
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Cobbe N, Heck MM. Review: SMCs in the world of chromosome biology- from prokaryotes to higher eukaryotes. J Struct Biol 2000; 129:123-43. [PMID: 10806064 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2000.4255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The study of higher order chromosome structure and how it is modified through the course of the cell cycle has fascinated geneticists, biochemists, and cell biologists for decades. The results from many diverse technical avenues have converged in the discovery of a large superfamily of chromosome-associated proteins known as SMCs, for structural maintenance of chromosomes, which are predicted to have ATPase activity. Now found in all eukaryotes examined, and numerous prokaryotes as well, SMCs play crucial roles in chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, sex chromosome dosage compensation, and DNA recombination repair. In eukaryotes, SMCs exist in five subfamilies, which appear to associate with one another in particular pairs to perform their specific functions. In this review, we summarize current progress examining the roles these proteins, and the complexes they form, play in chromosome metabolism. We also present a twist in the SMC story, with the possibility of one SMC moonlighting in an unpredicted location.
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- N Cobbe
- Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR, United Kingdom
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