Characterization of a Novel MMS-Sensitive Allele of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcm4.
The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex is the conserved helicase motor of the eukaryotic replication fork. Mutations in the Mcm4 subunit are associated with replication stress and double strand breaks in multiple systems. In this work we characterize a new temperature sensitive allele of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcm4(+) Uniquely amongst known mcm4 ... alleles, this mutation causes sensitivity to the alkylation damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS). Even in the absence of treatment or temperature shift, mcm4-c106 cells show increased repair foci of RPA and Rad52, and require the damage checkpoint for viability, indicating genome stress. The mcm4-c106 mutant is synthetically lethal with mutations disrupting fork protection complex (FPC) proteins Swi1 and Swi3. Surprisingly, we found that the deletion of rif1(+) suppressed the MMS sensitive phenotype without affecting temperature sensitivity. Together, these data suggest that mcm4-c106 destabilizes replisome structure.
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Date: Jul. 29, 2016
PubMed ID: 27473316
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