Ramasubramanyan, Sharada, Coulon, Stephane, Fuchs, Robert P, Lehmann, Alan R and Green, Catherine M (2010) Ubiquitin-PCNA fusion as a mimic for mono-ubiquitinated PCNA in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. DNA Repair, 9 (7). pp. 777-784. ISSN 1568-7864

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Abstract

Translesion synthesis is a major mechanism with which eukaryotic cells deal with DNA damage during replication. Mono-ubiquitinated PCNA is a key regulator of this process. We have investigated whether a ubiquitin-PCNA fusion can mimic ubiquitinated PCNA, by transforming plasmids expressing this fusion protein into different mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We show that the fusion protein is able to form PCNA trimers and that it can reduce the UV sensitivity and increase translesion synthesis in mutants in which PCNA cannot be ubiquitinated (pcn1-K164R and rhp18), but not of the rad8 mutant in which PCNA can be mono-ubiquitinated but not poly-ubiquitinated. We conclude that the fusion protein is a mimic of mono-ubiquitinated PCNA but it cannot be poly-ubiquitinated. Expression of the fusion protein at levels similar to that of endogenous unmodified protein has little effect on the spontaneous mutation rate of S. pombe. Replacement of the poll locus with PCNA N-terminally tagged with different epitopes resulted in lethality, probably because the tagged proteins were expressed at substantially reduced levels.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Life Sciences > Sussex Centre for Genome Damage and Stability
Depositing User:	Sharada Ramasubramanyan
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 18:27
Last Modified:	01 Jun 2012 10:19
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/16448

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