ZFIN ID: ZDB-PUB-100119-22 |
A vertebrate gene, ticrr, is an essential checkpoint and replication regulator
Sansam, C.L., Cruz, N.M., Danielian, P.S., Amsterdam, A., Lau, M.L., Hopkins, N., and Lees, J.A.
Date: | 2010 |
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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 |
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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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