Journal
MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS
Volume 269, Issue 5, Pages 672-684Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0870-y
Keywords
anaphase; cell cycle; chromosome segregation; mitosis
Funding
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM60443] Funding Source: Medline
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Anaphase onset and mitotic exit are regulated by the spindle assembly or kinetochore checkpoint, which inhibits the anaphase-promoting complex (APC), preventing the degradation of anaphase inhibitors and mitotic cyclins. As a result, cells arrest with high cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) activity due to the accumulation of cyclins. Aside from this, a clear-cut demonstration of a direct role for CDKs in the spindle checkpoint response has been elusive. Cdc28 is the main CDK driving the cell cycle in budding yeast. In this report, mutations in cdc28 are described that confer specific checkpoint defects, supersensitivity towards microtubule poisons and chromosome loss. Two alleles encode single mutations in the N and C terminal regions, respectively (R10G and R288G), and one allele specifies two mutations near the C terminus (F245L, I284T). These cdc28 mutants are unable to arrest or efficiently prevent sister chromatid separation during treatment with nocodazole. Genetic interactions with checkpoint and apc mutants suggest Cdc28 may regulate checkpoint arrest downstream of the MAD2 and BUB2 pathways. These studies identify a C-terminal domain of Cdc28 required for checkpoint arrest upon spindle damage that mediates chromosome stability during vegetative growth, suggesting that it has an essential surveillance function in the unperturbed cell cycle.
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