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      The CENP-B homolog, Abp1, interacts with the initiation protein Cdc23 (MCM10) and is required for efficient DNA replication in fission yeast

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          Abp1, and the closely related Cbh1 and Cbh2 are homologous to the human centromere-binding protein CENP-B that has been implicated in the assembly of centromeric heterochromatin. Fission yeast cells lacking Abp1 show an increase in mini-chromosome instability suggesting that Abp1 is important for chromosome segregation and/or DNA synthesis. Here we show that Abp1 interacts with the DNA replication protein Cdc23 (MCM10) in a two-hybrid assay, and that the Δabp1 mutant displays a synthetic phenotype with a cdc23 temperature-sensitive mutant. Moreover, genetic interactions were also observed between abp1 + and four additional DNA replication initiation genes cdc18 +, cdc21 +, orc1 +, and orc2 +. Interestingly, we find that S phase is delayed in cells deleted for abp1 + when released from a G1 block. However, no delay is observed when cells are released from an early S phase arrest induced by hydroxyurea suggesting that Abp1 functions prior to, or coincident with, the initiation of DNA replication.

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          The retinoblastoma protein associates with the protein phosphatase type 1 catalytic subunit.

          The retinoblastoma protein (p110RB) interacts with many cellular proteins in complexes potentially important for its growth-suppressing function. We have developed and used an improved version of the yeast two-hybrid system to isolate human cDNAs encoding proteins able to bind p110RB. One clone encodes a novel type 1 protein phosphatase catalytic subunit (PP-1 alpha 2), which differs from the originally defined PP-1 alpha by an amino-terminal 11-amino-acid insert. In vitro-binding assays demonstrated that PP-1 alpha isoforms preferentially bind the hypophosphorylated form of p110RB. Moreover, similar p110RB sequences are required for binding PP-1 alpha 2 and SV40 large T antigen. Cell cycle synchrony experiments revealed that this association occurs from mitosis to early G1. The implications of these findings on the regulation of both proteins are discussed.
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            Regulation of early events in chromosome replication.

            Eukaryotic genomes are replicated from large numbers of replication origins distributed on multiple chromosomes. The activity of these origins must be coordinated so that the entire genome is efficiently and accurately replicated yet no region of the genome is ever replicated more than once. The past decade has seen significant advances in understanding how the initiation of DNA replication is regulated by key cell-cycle regulators, including the cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) and the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). The assembly of essential prereplicative complexes (pre-RCs) at origins only occurs when CDK activity is low and APC/C activity is high. Origin firing, however, can only occur when the APC/C is inactivated and CDKs become active. This two step mechanism ensures that no origin can fire more than once in a cell cycle. In all eukaryotes tested, CDKs can contribute to the inhibition of pre-RC assembly. This inhibition is characterised both by high degrees of redundancy and evolutionary plasticity. Geminin plays a crucial role in inhibiting licensing in metazoans and, like cyclins, is inactivated by the APC/C. Strategies involved in preventing re-replication in different organisms will be discussed.
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              A DNA helicase activity is associated with an MCM4, -6, and -7 protein complex.

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              All six minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins have DNA-dependent ATPase motifs in the central domain which is conserved from yeast to mammals. Our group purified MCM protein complexes consisting of MCM2, -4 (Cdc21), -6 (Mis5), and -7 (CDC47) proteins from HeLa cells by using histone-Sepharose column chromatography (Ishimi, Y., Ichinose, S., Omori, A., Sato K., and Kimura, H. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 24115-24122). The present study revealed that both ATPase activity and DNA helicase activity that displaces oligonucleotides annealed to single-stranded circular DNA are associated with an MCM protein complex. Both ATPase and DNA helicase activities were co-purified with a 600-kDa protein complex that is consisted of equal amounts of MCM4, -6, and -7 proteins. An immunodepletion of the MCM protein complex from the purified fraction using anti-MCM4 antibody resulted in the severe reduction of the DNA helicase activity. Displacement of DNA fragments by the DNA helicase suggested that it migrated along single-stranded DNA in the 3' to 5' direction, and the DNA helicase activity was detected only in the presence of hydrolyzable ATP or dATP. These results suggest that this helicase may be involved in the initiation of DNA replication as a DNA unwinding enzyme.
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                Journal
                Cell Div
                Cell Division
                BioMed Central (London )
                1747-1028
                2006
                17 November 2006
                : 1
                : 27
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, P.O. Box 016189, Miami, FL, 33101, USA
                [2 ]Department of Applied Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Shimane University, Matsue, 690-8504, Shimane, Japan
                [3 ]Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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                1747-1028-1-27
                10.1186/1747-1028-1-27
                1664554
                17112379
                fbfee870-7596-45f2-90e2-e42c0e2a9c86
                Copyright © 2006 Locovei et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 25 August 2006
                : 17 November 2006
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