Cold-sensitive mutants of p34cdc2 that suppress a mitotic catastrophe phenotype in fission yeast

K AYSCOUGH, J HAYLES, Stuart Andrew MacNeill, P NURSE

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Abstract

The p34cdc2 protein kinase plays a central role in the regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle, being required both in late G1 for the commitment to S-phase and in late G2 for the initiation of mitosis. p34cdc2 also determines the precise timing of entry into mitosis in fission yeast, where a number of gene products that regulate p34cdc2 activity have been identified and characterised. To investigate further the mitotic role of p34cdc2 in this organism we have isolated new cold-sensitive p34cdc2 mutants. These are defective only in their G2 function and are extragenic suppressors of the lethal premature entry into mitosis brought about by mutating the mitotic inhibitor p107wee1 and overproducing the mitotic activator p80cdc25. One of the mutant proteins p34cdc2-E8 is only functional in the absence of p107wee1, and all the mutant strains have reduced histone H1 kinase activity in vitro. Each mutant allele has been cloned and sequenced, and the lesions responsible for the cold-sensitive phenotypes identified. All the mutations were found to map to regions that are conserved between the fission yeast p34cdc2 and functional homologues from higher eukaryotes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)344-350
Number of pages7
JournalMolecular and General Genetics
Volume232
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 1992

Keywords

  • P34CDC2
  • EXTRAGENIC SUPPRESSORS
  • CELL CYCLE
  • MITOTIC CONTROL
  • PROTEIN KINASES
  • CELL-DIVISION-CYCLE
  • CONTROL GENE CDC2
  • PROTEIN-KINASE
  • SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES-POMBE
  • DNA-REPLICATION
  • MITOSIS
  • SEQUENCE
  • HOMOLOGY
  • CLONING
  • INDUCER

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