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Essential roles of Snf21, a Swi2/Snf2 family chromatin remodeler, in fission yeast mitosis.

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:43 authored by K Yamada, K Hirota, Ken'ichi Mizuno, Atsushi Shibata, K Ohta
ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers (ADCRs) convert local chromatin structure into both transcriptional active and repressive state. Recent studies have revealed that ADCRs play diverse regulatory roles in chromosomal events such as DNA repair and recombination. Here we have newly identified a fission yeast gene encoding a Swi2/Snf2 family ADCR. The amino acid sequence of this gene, snf21+, implies that Snf21 is a fission yeast orthologue of the budding yeast Sth1, the catalytic core of the RSC chromatin remodeling complex. The snf21+ gene product is a nuclear protein essential to cell viability: the null mutant cells stop growing after several rounds of cell divisions. A temperature sensitive allele of snf21+, snf21-36 exhibits at non-permissive temperature (34C) a cell cycle arrest at G2-M phase and defects in chromosome segregation, thereby causing cell elongation, lack of cell growth, and death of some cell population. snf21-36 shows thiabendazole (TBZ) sensitivity even at permissive temperature (25C). The TBZ sensitivity becomes severer as snf21-36 is combined with the deletion of a centromere-localized Mad2 spindle checkpoint protein. The cell cycle arrest phenotype at 34C cannot be rescued by the mad2+ deletion, although it is substantially alleviated at 30C in mad2. These data suggest that Snf21 plays an essential role in mitosis possibly functioning in centromeric chromatin.

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  • Published

Journal

Genes & Genetic Systems

ISSN

1880-5779

Publisher

Genetics Society of Japan

Issue

5

Volume

83

Page range

361-372

Department affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Genome Damage Stability Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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