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Nucleic Acids Research 2004 32(21):6367-6377; doi:10.1093/nar/gkh963
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Published online 2 December 2004

Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 32 No. 21 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Genetics of lagging strand DNA synthesis and maturation in fission yeast: suppression analysis links the Dna2–Cdc24 complex to DNA polymerase {delta}

Hiroyuki Tanaka, Gi-Hyuck Ryu1, Yeon-Soo Seo1 and Stuart A. MacNeill*

Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK and 1 National Creative Research Initiative Center for Cell Cycle Control, Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 131 650 7088; Fax: +44 131 650 8650; Email: s.a.macneill{at}ed.ac.uk
Present address: Hiroyuki Tanaka, Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan

Received September 2, 2004; Revised and Accepted November 8, 2004

The Cdc24 protein is essential for the completion of chromosomal DNA replication in fission yeast. Although its precise role in this process is unclear, Cdc24 forms a complex with Dna2, a conserved endonuclease–helicase implicated in the removal of the RNA–DNA primer during Okazaki fragment processing. To gain further insights into Cdc24–Dna2 function, we screened for chromosomal suppressors of the temperature-sensitive cdc24-M38 allele and mapped the suppressing mutations into six complementation groups. Two of these mutations defined genes encoding the Pol3 and Cdc27 subunits of DNA polymerase {delta}. Sequence analysis revealed that all the suppressing mutations in Cdc27 resulted in truncation of the protein and loss of sequences that included the conserved C-terminal PCNA binding motif, previously shown to play an important role in maximizing enzyme processivity in vitro. Deletion of this motif is shown to be sufficient for suppression of both cdc24-M38 and dna2-C2, a temperature-sensitive allele of dna2+, suggesting that disruption of the interaction between Cdc27 and PCNA renders the activity of the Cdc24–Dna2 complex dispensable.


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