Temperature-Sensitive Cdc 7 Mutations of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Are Suppressed by the Dbf4 Gene, Which Is Required for the G(1)/S Cell Cycle Transition
AUTOR(ES)
Kitada, K.
RESUMO
When present on a multicopy plasmid, a gene from a Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic library suppresses the temperature-sensitive cdc7-1 mutation. The gene was identified as DBF4, which was previously isolated by complementation in dbf4-1 mutant cells and is required for the G(1) -> S phase progression of the cell cycle. DBF4 has an open reading frame encoding 695 amino acid residues and the predicted molecular mass of the gene product is 80 kD. The suppression is allele-specific because a CDC7 deletion is not suppressed by DBF4. Suppression is mitosis-specific and the sporulation defect of cdc7 mutations is not suppressed by DBF4. Conversely, CDC7 on a multicopy plasmid suppresses the dbf4-1, -2, -3 and -4 mutations but not dbf4-5 and DBF4 deletion mutations. Furthermore, cdc7 mutations are incompatible with the temperature-sensitive dbf4 mutations. These results suggest that the CDC7 and DBF4 polypeptides interact directly or indirectly to permit initiation of yeast chromosome replication.
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