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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-2-16
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Entry into mitosis is normally blocked in eukaryotic cells that have not completed replicative DNA synthesis; this 'S-M' checkpoint control is fundamental to the maintenance of genomic integrity. Mutants of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe defective in the S-M checkpoint fail to arrest the cell cycle when DNA replication is inhibited and hence attempt mitosis and cell division with unreplicated chromosomes, resulting in the 'cut' phenotype. In an attempt to identify conserved molecules involved in the S-M checkpoint we have screened a regulatable murine cDNA library in S. pombe and have identified cDNAs that induce the cut phenotype in cells arrested in S phase by hydroxyurea. One such cDNA encodes a novel protein with multiple calmodulin-binding motifs that, in addition to its effects on the S-M checkpoint, perturbed mitotic spindle functions, although spindle pole duplication was apparently normal. Both aspects of the phenotype induced by this cDNA product, which we term Sha1 (for spindle and hydroxyurea checkpoint abnormal), were suppressed by simultaneous overexpression of calmodulin. Sha1 is structurally related to the product of the Drosophila gene abnormal spindle (asp). These data suggest that calmodulin-binding protein(s) are important in the co-ordination of mitotic spindle functions with mitotic entry in fission yeast, and probably also in multicellular eukaryotes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-9533
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
111 ( Pt 24)
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3609-19
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9819352-3T3 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Calmodulin, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Calmodulin-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Cell Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Cytoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Microtubule-Associated Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Mitosis, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Mitotic Spindle Apparatus, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-S Phase, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Schizosaccharomyces, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:9819352-Transfection
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
The novel murine calmodulin-binding protein Sha1 disrupts mitotic spindle and replication checkpoint functions in fission yeast.
pubmed:affiliation
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, University of Oxford Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't