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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2004

Schizosaccharomyces pombe RanGAP homolog, SpRna1, is required for centromeric silencing and chromosome segregation.

Ayumi Kusano, Tomoko Yoshioka, Hitoshi Nishijima, Hideo Nishitani, Takeharu Nishimoto

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Ayumi KusanoDepartment of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Tomoko Yoshioka
Hitoshi Nishijima
Hideo Nishitani
Takeharu Nishimoto
Kyushu University · JP

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Abstract

We isolated 11 independent temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe RanGAP, SpRna1 that have several amino acid changes in the conserved domains of RanGAP. Resulting Sprna1ts showed a strong defect in mitotic chromosome segregation, but did not in nucleocytoplasmic transport and microtubule formation. In addition to Sprna1+ and Spksp1+, the clr4+ (histone H3-K9 methyltransferase), the S. pombe gene, SPAC25A8.01c, designated snf2SR+ (a member of the chromatin remodeling factors, Snf2 family with DNA-dependent ATPase activity), but not the spi1+ (S. pombe Ran homolog), rescued a lethality of Sprna1ts. Both Clr4 and Snf2 were reported to be involved in heterochromatin formation essential for building the centromeres. Consistently, Sprna1ts was defective in gene-silencing at the centromeres. But a silencing at the telomere, another heterochromatic region, was normal in all of Sprna1ts strains, indicating SpRna1 in general did not function for a heterochromatin formation. snf2SR+ rescued a centromeric silencing defect and Deltaclr4+ was synthetic lethal with Sprna1ts. Taken together, SpRna1 was suggested to function for constructing the centromeres, by cooperating with Clr4 and Snf2SR. Loss of SpRna1 activity, therefore, caused chromosome missegregation.

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Gene SilencingActive Transport, Cell NucleusCell NucleusCentromereChromosome SegregationCytoplasmDNA Mutational AnalysisGreen Fluorescent ProteinsGTPase-Activating ProteinsHeterochromatinHistonesMicroscopy, FluorescenceMitosisModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularMutationGreen Fluorescent ProteinsGTPase-Activating ProteinsHeterochromatinHistonesrna1 protein, S pombeSchizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins

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PMID15317843
PMCPMC524752
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