PUBLICATION
A vertebrate gene, ticrr, is an essential checkpoint and replication regulator
- Authors
- Sansam, C.L., Cruz, N.M., Danielian, P.S., Amsterdam, A., Lau, M.L., Hopkins, N., and Lees, J.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100119-22
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Genes & Development 24(2): 183-194 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Amsterdam, Adam, Hopkins, Nancy, Sansam, Chris
- Keywords
- DNA replication, S/M checkpoint, G2/M checkpoint, pre-RC, pre-IC, TopBP1, SLD3
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Carrier Proteins/genetics*
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism*
- Chromatin/metabolism
- DNA Replication/genetics*
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Genes, cdc/physiology*
- Humans
- Mitosis/genetics*
- Mutation/genetics
- Phenotype
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 20080954 Full text @ Genes & Dev.
Citation
Sansam, C.L., Cruz, N.M., Danielian, P.S., Amsterdam, A., Lau, M.L., Hopkins, N., and Lees, J.A. (2010) A vertebrate gene, ticrr, is an essential checkpoint and replication regulator. Genes & Development. 24(2):183-194.
Abstract
Eukaryotes have numerous checkpoint pathways to protect genome fidelity during normal cell division and in response to DNA damage. Through a screen for G2/M checkpoint regulators in zebrafish, we identified ticrr (for TopBP1-interacting, checkpoint, and replication regulator), a previously uncharacterized gene that is required to prevent mitotic entry after treatment with ionizing radiation. Ticrr deficiency is embryonic-lethal in the absence of exogenous DNA damage because it is essential for normal cell cycle progression. Specifically, the loss of ticrr impairs DNA replication and disrupts the S/M checkpoint, leading to premature mitotic entry and mitotic catastrophe. We show that the human TICRR ortholog associates with TopBP1, a known checkpoint protein and a core component of the DNA replication preinitiation complex (pre-IC), and that the TICRR-TopBP1 interaction is stable without chromatin and requires BRCT motifs essential for TopBP1's replication and checkpoint functions. Most importantly, we find that ticrr deficiency disrupts chromatin binding of pre-IC, but not prereplication complex, components. Taken together, our data show that TICRR acts in association with TopBP1 and plays an essential role in pre-IC formation. It remains to be determined whether Ticrr represents the vertebrate ortholog of the yeast pre-IC component Sld3, or a hitherto unknown metazoan replication and checkpoint regulator.
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