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- Title
Yeast IME2 functions early in meiosis upstream of cell cycle-regulated SBF and MBF targets.
- Authors
Brush, George S; Najor, Nicole A; Dombkowski, Alan A; Cukovic, Daniela; Sawarynski, Kara E
- Abstract
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the G1 cyclin/cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) complexes Cln1,-2,-3/Cdk1 promote S phase entry during the mitotic cell cycle but do not function during meiosis. It has been proposed that the meiosis-specific protein kinase Ime2, which is required for normal timing of pre-meiotic DNA replication, is equivalent to Cln1,-2/Cdk1. These two CDK complexes directly catalyze phosphorylation of the B-type cyclin/CDK inhibitor Sic1 during the cell cycle to enable its destruction. As a result, Clb5,-6/Cdk1 become activated and facilitate initiation of DNA replication. While Ime2 is required for Sic1 destruction during meiosis, evidence now suggests that Ime2 does not directly catalyze Sic1 phosphorylation to target it for destabilization as Cln1,-2/Cdk1 do during the cell cycle.
- Publication
PloS one, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 2, pe31575
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0031575