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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-6-11
pubmed:abstractText
MCM1 is an essential yeast DNA-binding protein that affects both minichromosome maintenance, in a manner suggesting that it has DNA replication initiation function, and gene expression. It activates alpha-specific genes together with MAT alpha 1, and represses a-specific genes together with MAT alpha 2. Alone, MCM1 can activate transcription. To determine whether different domains of the protein mediate these diverse functions, we constructed and analyzed several mcm1 mutants. The gene expression and minichromosome maintenance phenotypes of these mutants suggest that the role of MCM1 in DNA replication initiation may not involve transcriptional activation. However, both transcription and replication activities require only the 80-amino-acid fragment of MCM1 homologous to the DNA-binding domain of the serum response factor (SRF). This small fragment is also sufficient for cell viability and repression of a-specific genes. A polyacidic amino acid stretch immediately adjacent to the SRF homologous domain of MCM1 was found to be important for activation of alpha-specific genes in alpha cells. Mutants lacking the acidic stretch confer higher expression from an alpha-specific UAS in a cells in addition to lower expression in alpha cells, suggesting that negative regulation at this site occurs in a cells, in addition to the well-documented positive regulation in alpha cells.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0890-9369
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
751-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Chromosomes, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-DNA, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-DNA Replication, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Immunoblotting, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Receptors, Cell Surface, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Receptors, Mating Factor, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Receptors, Peptide, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Serum Response Factor, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:1851120-Yeasts
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Functional domains of the yeast transcription/replication factor MCM1.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.