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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 662-674Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.2.662-674.2004
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- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA100076, R56CA100076] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [R56 CA100076, R01 CA100076, CA 100076-01] Funding Source: Medline
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The detection of DNA damage activates DNA repair pathways and checkpoints to allow time for repair. Ultimately, these responses must be coordinated to ensure that cell cycle progression is halted until repair is completed. Several multiprotein complexes containing members of the structural maintenance of chromosomes family of proteins have been described, including the condensin and cohesin complexes, that are critical for chromosomal organization. Here we show that the Smc5/Smc6 (Smc5/6) complex is required for a coordinated response to DNA damage and normal chromosome integrity. Fission yeast cells lacking functional Smc6 initiate a normal checkpoint response to DNA damage, culminating in the phosphorylation and activation of the Chk1 protein kinase. Despite this, cells enter a lethal mitosis, presumably without completion of DNA repair. Another subunit of the complex, Nse1, is a conserved member of this complex and is also required for this response. We propose that the failure to maintain a checkpoint response stems from the lack of ongoing DNA repair or from defective chromosomal organization, which is the signal to maintain a checkpoint arrest. The Smc5/6 complex is fundamental to genome integrity and may function with the condensin and cohesin complexes in a coordinated manner.
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