Meiotic DNA replication checkpoint control in fission yeast
AUTOR(ES)
Murakami, Hiroshi
FONTE
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
RESUMO
In eukaryotes, the DNA replication checkpoint prevents entry into mitosis when DNA replication is incomplete and is crucial for maintaining genomic integrity. Much less is known about equivalent controls that operate during meiosis. Here, we show that a DNA replication checkpoint control operates during meiosis in fission yeast. The mitotic checkpoint Rad genes and the Cds1 protein kinase are required for the DNA replication checkpoint during meiosis, with Cds1 playing a more prominent role than it does during mitosis. When DNA replication is blocked, the checkpoint maintains Cdc2 tyrosine 15 phosphorylation keeping Cdc2 protein kinase activity low and preventing onset of meiosis I. Additionally, there is a second checkpoint acting during meiosis that is revealed if cells are prevented from maintaining Cdc2 tyrosine 15 phosphorylation when DNA replication is blocked. Such cells arrest with high Cdc2 protein kinase activity and separated spindle pole bodies, an arrest state similar to that observed in mitotic budding yeast cells when DNA replication is incomplete. This second checkpoint is meiosis specific and may reflect processes occurring only during meiosis such as increased recombination rates, an extended duration of nuclear division, or homolog chromosome pairing.
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