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Acute Smc5/6 depletion reveals its primary role in rDNA replication by restraining recombination at fork pausing sites.

Authors

Peng, Xiao P.; Lim, Shelly; Li, Shibai; Marjavaara, Lisette; Chabes, Andrei; Zhao, Xiaolan

Abstract

Smc5/6, a member of the conserved SMC family of complexes, is essential for growth in most organisms. Its exact functions in a mitotic cell cycle are controversial, as chronic Smc5/6 loss-of-function alleles produce varying phenotypes. To circumvent this issue, we acutely depleted Smc5/6 in budding yeast and determined the first cell cycle consequences of Smc5/6 removal. We found a striking primary defect in replication of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) array. Each rDNA repeat contains a programmed replication fork barrier (RFB) established by the Fob1 protein. Fob1 removal improves rDNA replication in Smc5/6 depleted cells, implicating Smc5/6 in the management of programmed fork pausing. A similar improvement is achieved by removing the DNA helicase Mph1 whose recombinogenic activity can be inhibited by Smc5/6 under DNA damage conditions. DNA 2D gel analyses further show that Smc5/6 loss increases recombination structures at RFB regions; moreover, mph1∆ and fob1∆ similarly reduce this accumulation. These findings point to an important mitotic role for Smc5/6 in restraining recombination events when protein barriers in rDNA stall replication forks. As rDNA maintenance influences multiple essential cellular processes, Smc5/6 likely links rDNA stability to overall mitotic growth.

Subjects

RIBOSOMAL DNA; MITOSIS; CELL cycle; DNA helicases; PROTEINS

Publication

PLoS Genetics, 2018, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1

ISSN

1553-7390

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1371/journal.pgen.1007129

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