Journal
CELL CYCLE
Volume 5, Issue 21, Pages 2495-2500Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cc.5.21.3423
Keywords
S-phase DNA damage checkpoint; inter-S checkpoint; Cdc2; Cdc25; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; fission yeast
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM069957, GM069957, R01 GM069957-03] Funding Source: Medline
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The S-phase DNA damage checkpoint slows replication when damage occurs during S phase. Cdc25, which activates Cdc2 by dephosphorylating tyrosine-15, has been shown to be a downstream target of the checkpoint in metazoans, but its role is not clear in fission yeast. The dephosphorylation of Cdc2 has been assumed not to play a role in S-phase regulation because cells replicate in the absence of Cdc25, demonstrating that tyrosine-15 phosphorylated Cdc2 is sufficient for S phase. However, it has been reported recently that Cdc25 is involved in the slowing of S phase in response to damage in fission yeast, suggesting a modulatory role for Cdc2 dephosphorylation in S phase. We have investigated the role of Cdc25 and the tyrosine phosphorylation of Cdc2 in the S-phase damage checkpoint, and our results show that Cdc2 phosphorylation is not a target of the checkpoint. The checkpoint was not compromised in a Cdc25 overexpressing strain, a strain carrying nonphosphorylatable form of Cdc2, or in a strain lacking Cdc25. Our results are consistent with a strictly Cdc2-Y15 phosphorylation-independent mechanism of the fission yeast S-phase DNA damage checkpoint.
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