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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 40, Issue 17, Pages 8325-8335Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks599
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [BFU2010-16989, Consolider Ingenio CSD2007-00015]
- Fundacion Ramon Areces
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
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The conserved heterodimeric endonuclease Mus81-Eme1/Mms4 plays an important role in the maintenance of genomic integrity in eukaryotic cells. Here, we show that budding yeast Mus81-Mms4 is strictly regulated during the mitotic cell cycle by Cdc28 (CDK)- and Cdc5 (Polo-like kinase)-dependent phosphorylation of the non-catalytic subunit Mms4. The phosphorylation of this protein occurs only after bulk DNA synthesis and before chromosome segregation, and is absolutely necessary for the function of the Mus81-Mms4 complex. Consistently, a phosphorylation-defective mms4 mutant shows highly reduced nuclease activity and increases the sensitivity of cells lacking the RecQ-helicase Sgs1 to various agents that cause DNA damage or replicative stress. The mode of regulation of Mus81-Mms4 restricts its activity to a short period of the cell cycle, thus preventing its function during chromosome replication and the negative consequences for genome stability derived from its nucleolytic action. Yet, the controlled Mus81-Mms4 activity provides a safeguard mechanism to resolve DNA intermediates that may remain after replication and require processing before mitosis.
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