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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 26, Issue 11 2598-2605, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press

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Single point mutations located outside the inter-monomer domains abolish trimerization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe PCNA

K Piard, G Baldacci and I Tratner
UPR9044, IFC1/CNRS, 7 rue Guy Moquet, 94801 Villejuif, France.

We have generated proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) mutants by low fidelity PCR and screened for lethal mutations by testing for lack of complementation of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe strain disrupted for the pcn1 + gene. We thus identified eight lethal mutants out of the 50 cDNAs tested. Six were truncated in their C-terminal region due to the introduction of a stop codon within their coding sequences. Two were full-length with a single point mutation at amino acid 68 or 69. The two latter mutants were overexpressed in insect cells via a recombinant baculovirus and were purified. They were unable to stimulate DNA polymerase delta DNA replication activity on a poly(dA).oligo(dT) template. Cross-linking experiments showed that this was due to their inability to form trimers. Since these two mutations are adjacent and not located in a domain of the protein putatively involved in inter- monomer interactions, our results show that the beta-sheet betaF1 to which they belong must play an essential role in maintaining the 3- dimensional structure of S.pombe PCNA.
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